Backhaus and Drechsler’s Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche Say Anything to Economists or About Economics?
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
It is impossible to provide anything other than a glimpse of such a complex figure as Nietzsche in the span of a review of a book on his influence (if any) on economics. Here I provide a summary of his life and major works. I have had to omit some works from the discussion, and also suppress a good deal of biographical detail. Some Nietzsche scholarship, especially that outside the analytical philosophical tradition, consider events in Nietzsche's life as important to understanding his philosophy, and look for explanations of his philosophy in his life, such as the lack of a father figure and the search for male role models in Wagner and Schopenhauer, and the effect of his chronic illness on his philosophy. If I consider these interpretive issues, I do so only tangentially.
Recommended Citation
John Linarelli, Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche Say Anything to Economists or About Economics?, in RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND METHODOLOGY.A RESEARCH ANNUAL / VOL. 26, PT. 1 (Warren J. Samuels, Jeff Biddle, & Ross B. Emmett, eds., 2008).
Source Publication
Bingley: Emerald/JAI Press