TY - BOOK AU - Mootz,Francis J. AU - Goodrich,Peter TI - Nietzsche and law SN - 9780754626206 U1 - 340.1092 PY - 2008/// CY - Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Law KW - Interpretation and construction KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. What is positive law? 2. Genealogy and jurisprudence Nietzsche, nihilism, and the social scientification of law 3. The relevance of Nietzsche to democratic theory: micropolitics and the affirmation of difference 4. Nietzsche and the Nazis: the impact of national socialism on the philosophy of Nietzsche 5. From strife to understanding: pathological argument in Nietzsche and Gadamer 6. Responding to Nietzsche: the constructive power of Destruktion 7. Nietzsche's gnosis of law 8. Friedrich Nietzsche, the Code of Manu, and the art of legislation 9. African Nietzsche: poetry, philosophy and African legal thinking 10. It's a positivist, it's a pragmatist, it's a codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal 11. Nietzsche in law's cathedral: beyond reason and postmodernism 12. Law and modernity 13. We fearless ones: Nietzsche and critical legal studies 14. Agonal communities of taste: law and community in Nietzsche's philosophy of transvaluation 15. Rationalized violence and legal colonialism: Nietzsche contra Nietzsche 16. Specters of Nietzsche: potential futures for the concept of the political in Agamben and Derrida 17. We scholars. ER -