Nietzsche and Legal Theory

by Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde

Nietzsche and Legal Theory is 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.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Sabarish Suresh]

One of the very few, if not the only, extended works interrogating the relevance and significance of Nietzsche for legal theory. This volume has a fantastic collection asserting a central argument that Nietzsche is a figure who is not very often associated with law, but remains someone that is deeply relevant and even critical for a serious study of the discipline.