Pain, Memory, and the Creation of the Liberal Legal Subject: Nietzsche on the Criminal Law

Why should anyone read Nietzsche’s texts and use them to pursue inquiries about the foundations of the criminal law? Is it just a matter of adding one more institutionally self-interested entry to the long list of commentaries we already possess: “Nietzsche and women,” “Nietzsche and the Jewish question,” “Nietzsche and art,” and, now, “Nietzsche and legal theory.”