What is "transvaluation"

Usage examples of "transvaluation".

As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

But when the dumb unrest grows into conscious expression and becomes almost universal, it necessarily affects all phases of human thought and action, and seeks its individual and social expression in the gradual transvaluation of existing values.

Legislative fiat eliminated guilt as the foundation of civilized social law and therefore initiated a transvaluation of logics governing action and meaning.

The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for a particularly strong kind of man, most highly gifted in intellect and will.

The Transvaluation of Values The gradual emancipation of women that has been going on for the last century has still a long way to proceed before they are wholly delivered from their traditional burdens and so stand clear of the oppressions of men.

The Future of Marriage The transvaluation of values that is now in progress will go on slowly and for a very long while.

This transvaluation of values is an invariable accompaniment of Culture-Distortion, and represents a super-personal life-necessity of the Culture-distorting element.

Last, and spiritually most important, is the desperate attempt which the Terror made at a transvaluation of all Western values.

And yet, if he could do it, he, a Mexican, a man who without doubt had never read a book in his life, who had never even heard of the transvaluation of values, then so could I.

The mass refusal of the disciplinary regime, which took a variety of forms, was not only a negative expression but also a moment of creation, what Nietzsche calls a transvaluation of values.

This massive transvaluation of the values of social production and production of new subjectivities opened the way for a powerful transformation of labor power.

The omnilateral expansiveness of the power to act demonstrates the ontological basis of transvaluation, that is, its capacity not only to destroy the values that descend from the transcendental realm of measure but also to create new values.

How are we to account for the wholesale transvaluation of values that came after the Civil War, the transfer of ire from the Old Adam to the happy rascal across the street, the sinister rise of a new Inquisition in the midst of a growing luxury that even the Puritans themselves succumbed to?

The transvaluation of values was performed by many hands into all sorts of combinations.

He even tried, by quoting Nietzsche, to make the new era and the transvaluation of all values palatable to me.