Ebook: Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values: A Study in Strategies

An assessment of Nietzsche's challenging plan to revalue all values, including knowledge, morality, religion, art, and the state.

From Library Journal:
This engaging analysis focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche's devastating criticism of all traditional values (especially religious beliefs) within his own atheistic but life-affirming worldview. It gives special attention to his philosophy of types and perspectivism. The differences Nietzsche saw among master, slave, and herd moralities are critically explored, as are his views on art and truth. The distinction between slave and herd values and the examination of altruism are of particular importance to the student and scholar. The cosmic will to power, future overman, and eternal recurrence of the same are presented as outgrowths of the Nietzschean challenge to overcome old values in order to create new ones. These penetrating insights offer a lucid and provocative introduction to the dynamic naturalism and bold individualism espoused by the most controversial and influential thinker of recent times. For all philosophy collections.
H. James Birx, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, N.Y.