‘Religion’, Genealogy, History: A Reply to Zucca and Monod

1 Foucault, M., ‘Nietzsche, la généalogie, l'histoire’, in Bachelard, S. et al. , Hommage à Jean Hyppolite (1971), 145 (my translation).

2 Breton, A., ‘Preface to the Max Ernst Exhibition of May, 1921’, quoted in Ernst, M., Beyond Painting (translated by Tanning, D.) (1948), 21.

3 Foucault, supra note 1.

4 Ibid., at 158.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid., at 160.

7 Ibid., at 146.

8 Ibid., at 148.

9 I wrote: ‘This homology is close enough to suggest that the two sets of dichotomies may be viewed, respectively, as anthropologized and historicized versions of very similar notions.’ Zucca seems to think that I am here referring to the relationship between the two forms of secularization; in fact, however, I am referring to the relationship between two dichotomies: (i) secularization-retreat versus secularization transfer; and (ii) the Durkheimian opposition of the absolute heterogeneity of the sacred and the profane versus the contagiousness of the relationship between the sacred and the profane.

10 Foucault, supra note 1, at 168.