Brian Leiter (University of Chicago Law School) has posted A New Approach to the Question of Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy: A Review of Tamsin Shaw’s Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism (2007) (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Against
the two dominant strands in the secondary literature on Nietzsche’s
political philosophy – one attributing to Nietzsche a kind of
flat-footed commitment to aristocratic forms of social ordering, the
other denying that Nietzsche has any political philosophy at all-Tamsin
Shaw stakes out a new and surprising position: namely, that Nietzsche
was very much concerned with the familiar question of the moral or
normative legitimacy of state power, but was skeptical that with the
demise of religion, it would be possible to achieve a practically
effective normative consensus about such legitimacy that was untainted
by the exercise of state power itself. Although, as I will argue, there
are reasons to be quite skeptical that Nietzsche was interested in
anything like these questions, Shaw has laid down a clear and
invigorating challenge to existing scholarship on Nietzsche’s politics,
and it is one worth meeting.