Nietzsche's Political Economy by Dmitri G. Safronov - 9783110752298

Nietzsche's Political EconomyAuthor(s): Dmitri G. Safronov\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter\nISBN-13: 9783110752298, 978-3110752298\nSynopsis\nSafronovs Nietzsches Political Economy is a pioneering appraisal of Nietzsches critique of industrial culture and its unfolding crisis. The author contends that Nietzsche remains unique in conceptualizing the upheavals of modern political economy in terms of the crisis of its governing values. Nietzsche scrutinises the norms which, not only preside over the unfathomable build-up in debt, the proliferation of meaningless, impersonal slavery and the rise of increasingly repressive social control systems, but inevitably set these precarious tendencies of modern political economy on a collision course liable to culminate in an unprecedented human and environmental catastrophe. Safronov explores the core themes of Nietzsches political economydebt, slavery, and the division of labourwith reference to the influen.