As Isbell shows, transvaluation presupposes both the freedom and the necessity of reinterpreting perceived timeless teachings in light of historical, theological, sociological, and political developments that occurred long after the ...

Human values are the foundation upon which life's various decisions and beliefs stand on.

A large part of the book is devoted to the application of this theory, hence the book is both a hermeneutic study and a practical guide for the interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial topics such as the Death of God, marriage, life and ...

The author considers how the Dido and Aeneas episode in Vergil's Aeneid was imitated and transformed in various Renaissance works, culminating in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself.

This study traces the transvaluations or transformations in value and meaning Nietzsche's work underwent during the first century of its reception in France.