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Beschreibung

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways. From cryptocurrencies and meme stocks to Silicon Valley venture capital and the global boom in artificial intelligence, economic life today thrives on the ambiguous allure of nothingness, annihilation, and disappearance.

Samman brings the financial status of contemporary nihilism into focus, connecting its signal moods and sentiments to the system-logics of world finance. All the historical moods of nihilism now circulate through the financial system, he argues, and each further wave of technological advance provides yet more means of speculating on these moods. The result is a lucrative new culture of financial nihilism with no end in sight. For readers interested in philosophy and the history of capitalism, Currency of Nihilism offers an unsettling perspective on the nihilistic structures of feeling that underwrite the contemporary financial system.

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways. From cryptocurrencies and meme stocks to Silicon Valley venture capital and the global boom in artificial intelligence, economic life today thrives on the ambiguous allure of nothingness, annihilation, and disappearance.

Samman brings the financial status of contemporary nihilism into focus, connecting its signal moods and sentiments to the system-logics of world finance. All the historical moods of nihilism now circulate through the financial system, he argues, and each further wave of technological advance provides yet more means of speculating on these moods. The result is a lucrative new culture of financial nihilism with no end in sight. For readers interested in philosophy and the history of capitalism, Currency of Nihilism offers an unsettling perspective on the nihilistic structures of feeling that underwrite the contemporary financial system.

Über den Autor
Amin Samman is Reader in International Political Economy at City St George's, University of London. He is the author of History in Financial Times (Stanford, 2019).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction: Balenciaga Occupies Wall Street
1. History of Nihilism
2. Economy of Nothingness
3. Nihilism and Finance
4. Financial Nihilism
5. Financial Void
Conclusion: Metaphysical Boom and Bust
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781503645868
ISBN-10: 150364586X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Samman, Amin
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 213 x 138 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Amin Samman
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2026
Gewicht: 0,225 kg
Artikel-ID: 136077105