This is another iconic one from the MF and it's kind of taken as a Groundwork to the rest of his project and I see that though I warn that this is really very dry compared to the fireworks of HoS or D&P. Routledge is quite keen to sell him in whichever way - he 'seduces' 'pirouettes' 'sparkles', possesses an "exotic charm" with 'intellectual pyrotechnics'.

It's a fairly complex weave of an argument here but broadly the three subject areas we deal with are Biology-Economics-Philology. This seems strange because it is and I must say I was suffering at times I do not terribly want to think of money and I'm not especially interested in plankton and simple-celled organisms. But he really 'sparkles' when we talk philology and I want more of that even if I am a predictable literary person. In a sense the text functions as a genealogy of taxonomy and it really is a masterclass in demonstrating MF's use of the Nietzschean genealogical method. sold?