Consider How Nietzsche's Philosophical and Rhetorical Interventions Illuminate the Failures of Contemporary Legal Theory.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c87500) has announced the addition of Nietzsche and Law to their offering. Legal scholars have only recently begun to address the radical challenges for law and legal theory that follow from Friedrich Nietzsche's pathbreaking path·break·ing adj. Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering. work. This collection brings together articles from leading thinkers who consider how Nietzsche's philosophical and rhetorical interventions illuminate the failures of contemporary legal theory. Part One considers the connections between law, political philosophy and Nietzsche's genealogy. Part Two provides a number of competing interpretations of Nietzsche's relevance for legal hermeneutics hermeneutics, the theory and practice of interpretation. During the Reformation hermeneutics came into being as a special discipline concerned with biblical criticism. . Part Three includes articles that chart a course for legal critique that remains true to Nietzsche's radical character. The work of prominent philosophers, including P. Christopher Smith, is joined with the work of leading legal theorists, including Philippe Nonet no·net n. 1. A combination of nine instruments or voices. 2. A composition written for such a combination. [Italian nonetto, from diminutive of nono, ninth and leading rhetoricians, including Marianne Constable, to provide complex and sophisticated overview of the manner in which Nietzsche problematizes law and legal theory.. Contents: Series preface Introduction Part I Political Philosophy, Genealogy, Law: What is positive law?, Philippe Nonet Genealogy and jurisprudence: Nietzsche, nihilism nihilism (nī`əlĭzəm), theory of revolution popular among Russian extremists until the fall of the czarist government (1917); the theory was given its name by Ivan Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons (1861). 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, P. Christopher Smith Responding to Nietzsche: the constructive power of Destruktion, Francis J. Mootz III Nietzsche's gnosis gno·sis n. Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics. [Greek gn 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 Gearey It's a positivist pos·i·tiv·ism n. 1. Philosophy a. A doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought. b. , it's a pragmatist, it's a codifier cod·i·fy tr.v. cod·i·fied, cod·i·fy·ing, cod·i·fies 1. To reduce to a code: codify laws. 2. To arrange or systematize. ! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal, Richard H. Weisberg Richard H. Weisberg is a professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York City, a leading scholar on law and literature. Biography Weisberg received his B.A. degree from Brandeis University in 1965, Ph.D. 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 Gearey Agonal agonal /ag·o·nal/ (ag´ah-n'l) pertaining to or occurring just before death. agonal pertaining to death or extreme suffering. communities of taste: law and community in Nietzsche's philosophy of transvaluation, H.W. Siemens 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', Friedrich Nietzsche (translated by Walter Kaufmann) Name index. For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c87500 |
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