Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half-Written Laws

by Goodrich,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415950794
• ISBN10: 0415950791
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Nietzsche and Legal Theoryis an anthology designed to provide legal and socio-legal scholars with a sense of the very wide range of projects and questions in whose pursuit Nietzsche's work can be useful. From medical ethics to criminology, from the systemic anti-Semitism of legal codes arising in Christian cultures, to the details of intellectual property debates about regulating the use of culturally significant objects, the contributors (from the fields of law, philosophy, criminology, cultural studies, and literary studies) demonstrate and enact the sort of creativity that Nietzsche associated with the "free-spirits" to whom he addressed some of his most significant work.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Nietzsche's Half-Written Laws	1	(22)
Peter Goodrich
Mariana Valverde
Gay Science as Law: An Outline for a Nietzschean Jurisprudence	23	(26)
Jonathan Yovel
From a Biopolitical Point of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime	49	(18)
Friedrich Balke
Pain, Memory, and the Creation of the Liberal Legal Subject: Nietzsche on the Criminal Law	67	(22)
Mariana Valverde
Law's Ignoble Compassion	89	(16)
Marinos Diamantides
Aphorisms, Objects, Culture	105	(20)
Tatiana Flessas
Nietzsche between Jews and Jurists	125	(24)
Anton Schotz
Nietzsche's Hermeneutics: Good and Bad Interpreters of Texts	149	(16)
Richard Weisberg
The Fourth Book of the Legislator: Nietzsche and John Neville Figgis	165	(20)
Adam Gearey
Slow Reading	185	(16)
Peter Goodrich
Contributors	201	(2)
Index	203