Frank Kogan

i think the drive toward the biological connected to 'herd' and related metaphors (?) has as much to do with a drive toward individual particularity as with types. and despite the opposition of 'herd' to more noble classes (which anyway gets complicated in the 'genealogy' by his deliberate alternation of opposed categories from one essay to the next), don't forget that often 'herd' gets used as a way to reassert that every person, no matter how individual or how noble, owes their survival to their species, as an animal does, and accordingly (?) is often at the mercy of animal drives of their own and of others which are dumber or smarter (because 'older') than their 'higher' drives.


-j