Joshua Ben David Nichols is currently studying law at the University of British Columbia and has previously been a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. He specializes in modern continental philosophy, especially Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary French thought. His primary area of research is political and legal philosophy with an emphasis on questions of violence and sovereignty.

• The End(s) of Community: History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law, by Joshua Ben David NicholsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection I: At the End(s) of Community1. ""Community, Number"" and Democracy: An Excursus on the Politics of FraternitySection II: Writing and Resistance2. Keeping Time Beneath a Canopy of Skins: Reading at the Limits of Sense and Sign(s)in Augustine and Bataille3. The Way Out Is Through: Sade's Novel and the Crime of WritingSection III: Bodies of Resistance4. Between Law and the Slaughterhouse: Kant, Fichte and the ""Absolute"" Right of Punishment5. Between the Judge and the Executioner: Revisiting the Silent Foundations of Hegel's Moral Point of View6. To Read the Writing of Right: An Excursus on Death and the Foundations of Law in the Penal Colony NotesBibliographyIndex

Joshua Ben David Nichols is currently studying law at the University of British Columbia and has previously been a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. He specializes in modern continental philosophy, especially Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary French thought. His primary area of research is political and legal philosophy with an emphasis on questions of violence and sovereignty.

• The End(s) of Community: History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law, by Joshua Ben David NicholsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection I: At the End(s) of Community1. ""Community, Number"" and Democracy: An Excursus on the Politics of FraternitySection II: Writing and Resistance2. Keeping Time Beneath a Canopy of Skins: Reading at the Limits of Sense and Sign(s)in Augustine and Bataille3. The Way Out Is Through: Sade's Novel and the Crime of WritingSection III: Bodies of Resistance4. Between Law and the Slaughterhouse: Kant, Fichte and the ""Absolute"" Right of Punishment5. Between the Judge and the Executioner: Revisiting the Silent Foundations of Hegel's Moral Point of View6. To Read the Writing of Right: An Excursus on Death and the Foundations of Law in the Penal Colony NotesBibliographyIndex

Joshua Ben David Nichols is currently studying law at the University of British Columbia and has previously been a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. He specializes in modern continental philosophy, especially Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and contemporary French thought. His primary area of research is political and legal philosophy with an emphasis on questions of violence and sovereignty.

• The End(s) of Community: History, Sovereignty, and the Question of Law, by Joshua Ben David NicholsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection I: At the End(s) of Community1. ""Community, Number"" and Democracy: An Excursus on the Politics of FraternitySection II: Writing and Resistance2. Keeping Time Beneath a Canopy of Skins: Reading at the Limits of Sense and Sign(s)in Augustine and Bataille3. The Way Out Is Through: Sade's Novel and the Crime of WritingSection III: Bodies of Resistance4. Between Law and the Slaughterhouse: Kant, Fichte and the ""Absolute"" Right of Punishment5. Between the Judge and the Executioner: Revisiting the Silent Foundations of Hegel's Moral Point of View6. To Read the Writing of Right: An Excursus on Death and the Foundations of Law in the Penal Colony NotesBibliographyIndex