Extract
In this day and age, when law seems to be giving way to force, presenting a chair of legal studies may seem somewhat out of date. All the more reason, then, to follow Nietzsche's example of being resolutely untimely, and ponder what he wrote in 1873, after Germany's military success : " a great victory is a great danger ", for the illusion of believing in the victory of a form of civilization could lead, he said, to the defeat of the spirit in favor of the Empire. Whether we are talking about the defeat of the spirit or the defeat of the law, in order to see things clearly, we need to distance ourselves from the all-too-burning current events..
