Heideggerian Law Beyond Law? Technique,Recht,and Phusis

Abstract

In this essay I situate Philippe Nonet's reading of the Antigone within his larger Heideggerian Destruktion of the tradition of Western legal philosophy. I argue that the sweeping terms of Nonet's condemnation of that tradition as a mode of nihilism place significant strains upon his reading of the tragedy, and, more importantly, leave little reason to hope that an appreciation of the law Nonet sees embodied in the Gestalt of Antigone's person will help us understand or address, even indirectly, the problems with which Recht and Gesetz are concerned.