ABSTRACT
If Nietzsche is to be central to a jurisprudence for our times, it is necessary to examine a particular moment in his Anglophone reception: John Neville Figgis’s political theology; a critical resource within “established jurisprudence.”1 This essay will argue that Figgis’s work provides a site from which a Nietzschean form of critical legal studies can be developed. Critical legal studies must become a thinking of attachment, community, the legitimacy of the laws that are imposed upon us, and the laws that we write for ourselves.2 After Nietzsche, critical thought presents itself as a philosophy of life, a “yea saying,”3 a foundation of itself anew.
