In general the doctrine of the Superman can only be understood correctly in conjunction with other ideas of the author's, such as:--the Order of Rank, the Will to Power, and the Transvaluation of all Values.
The author of "Zarathustra" never lost sight of that egregious example of a transvaluation of all values through Christianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued in a comparatively short time.
He was not conscious of this
transvaluation of values that had taken place in him, and was unaware that the light that shone in his eyes when he looked at her was quite the same light that shines in all men's eyes when the desire of love is upon them.
For my mind had leaped to a star-cool altitude and grasped a passionless
transvaluation of values.
Strindberg also subscrbed to the
transvaluation of moral values announced by his favorite philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, as a method of escaping the limitations of Christian-Liberal-Socialist victimology and creating a superior breed of tragic hero, worthy of the Greek myths.
Nietzsche, declaring himself one who wishes to bring about a
transvaluation of all values, argues that there is no more effective way than to begin by supposing that conventional morality is a sign of slavery and weakness.
While it is without doubt that Agamben is "able to formulate a
transvaluation of biopolitics only in the guise of a bio-theo-politics," and indeed that this
transvaluation is a form of vitalism, (63) this
transvaluation is not limited to a single messianic event, but, rather, is diffused into the linguistic act itself.
Shuger traces a concern in sixteenth-century Europe about the incompatibility of a zero-sum heroic code ("I win, you lose") with "the Christian
transvaluation of failure," the notion of Christianity "understood as a system for hallowing loss" (44).
As a way of demonstrating the effects of such abstraction in the context of the 'political uncanny', I want to turn to Derrida's defence of Heidegger's anti-metaphysical position in Of Spirit, which, significantly enough, turns on a description of the Unheimlich in the final section of An Introduction to Metaphysics, written in 1934, a section which ends notoriously enough with references to Niezsche's
transvaluation of all values and the suggestion that 'the works that are being peddled about nowadays as the philosophy of National Socialism' have nothing to do with 'the inner truth and greatness of this movement (namely the encounter between global technology and modern man)'.
Antikrist: prehodnoceni vsech hodnot [Antichrist: The
Transvaluation of all values].
LIKE HIS ERSTWHILE COLLEAGUE on the French New Right, Alain de Benoist, Faye draws much of his historical optimism from the neopagan philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in particular Nietzsche's concept of the Umwertung, or
transvaluation of all values, an idea that rests on a belief in the Eternal Return.