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Nietzsche’s Economy

Modernity, Normativity and Futurity

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  • © 2007

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  1. Peter R. Sedgwick
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Economy and Society in Nietzsche’s ‘Middle Period’ Works: Human, All Too Human, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, The Wanderer and His Shadow, Daybreak

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 1-28

  3. Humankind, the Measurer of All Things: Modernity and Primitive Economy in Human, All Too Human, Daybreak and The Gay Science

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 29-66

  4. The Great Economy

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 67-112

  5. Zarathustra and the Economy of the Overman

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 113-146

  6. Philosophical Temptations: Economy and Futurity

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 147-182

  7. Conclusion

    • Peter R. Sedgwick
    Pages 183-190

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 191-217
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About this book

This book proposes that Nietzsche should be viewed as an economic thinker to rank alongside Marx. Peter Sedgwick shows how Nietzsche views economy as the basic condition under which the 'human animal' developed. Economy, Nietzsche argues, endowed us with futurity, and is a defining aspect of human behaviour.

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'Nietzsche's Economy is a complete and effective exploration of the economic motif at work throughout Nietzsche's writings. Not only is the book original in scope and in treatment, it opens a truly refreshing set of possibilities to the Nietzsche scholar, and to us learners of-and actors in-modernity....a welcome contribution to the task of rejuvenating the Nietzsche scholarship.' - Nietzsche Circle

About the author

PETER SEDGWICK is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. He is the editor of Nietzsche: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1995), author of Descartes to Derrida: An Introduction to European Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001) and co-author/co-editor with Andrew Edgar of Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts (Routledge, 1999) and Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers (Routledge, 2002).

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