Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Political Philosophy, Genealogy, Law: What is positive law?, Philippe Nonet; Genealogy and jurisprudence: Nietzsche, nihilism and the social scientification of law, Marianne Constable; The relevance of Nietzsche to democratic theory: micropolitics and the affirmation of difference, Nathan Widder; Nietzsche and the Nazis: the impact of National Socialism on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Charles M. Yablon. Part II Legal Hermeneutics: From strife to understanding: pathological argument in Nietzsche and Gadamer, Christopher P. Smith; Responding to Nietzsche: the constructive power of Destruktion, Francis J. Mootz III; Nietzsche's gnosis of law, Frederick M. Dolan; Friedrich Nietzsche, the code of manu and the art of legislation, Roger Berkowitz; African Nietzsche: poetry, philosophy and African legal thinking, Adam Geary; It's a positivist! It's a pragmatist! It's a codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal, Richard Weisberg; Nietzsche in law's cathedral: beyond reason and postmodernism, John Linarelli. Part III Legal Critique: Law and modernity, Peter Goodrich; We fearless ones: Nietzsche and critical legal studies, Adam Geary; Agonal communities of taste: law and community in Nietzsche's philosophy of transvaluation, H.W.

Siemans; Rationalised violence and legal colonialism: Nietzsche contra Neitzsche, Joseph Pugliese; Specters of Nietzsche: potential futures for the concept of the political in Agamben and Derrida, Adam Thurschwell. Part IV Timely Reflections on the Scholarly Enterprise: 'We scholars' in Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche; Index.