Nietzsche and Legal Theory

<p><em>Nietzsche and Legal Theory</em> 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. </p> Introduction: Half Written Laws, Peter Goodrich and Mariana Valverde1. Gay Science and Law, Jonathan Yovel2. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime, Friedrich Balke3. Nietzsche on Criminal Law, Mariana Valverde4. Law's Ignoble Compassion, Marinos Diamantides 5. Cultural Property as Aphorism, Tatiana Flessas6. Nietzsche between Jews and Jurists, Anton Schutz7. Nietzsche's Hermeneutics: Good and Bad Interpreters of Texts, Richard Weisberg8. The Fourth Book of the Legislator, Adam Gearey9. Slow Reading, Peter Goodrich