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).
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"Samman's book is committed to an audacious intellectual experiment, developing prominent positions of Western nihilism based on the dynamics of modern financial economy." - Joseph Vogl, Princeton University "Currency of Nihilism is most definitely the book to read on nihilism in the twenty-first century-fabulously creative, absolutely important, theoretically compelling. My sense is that Nietzsche and Baudrillard would be reading this book with rapt attention." - Arthur Kroker, University of Victoria "Samman develops a genuine philosophy of history, founded on the common substance of language and money-namely on nothing. The connection he forges between nihilism and finance establishes a new paradigm for understanding economic modernity. Never before has nothing been something worth taking more seriously." - Noam Yuran, Bar-Ilan University "In this theoretically rich reflection on the vacuum at the heart of finance and the technologies that now exploit it, Samman provides us with an original and discomforting diagnosis of our political and cultural present." - William Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London