Transvaluations
Subtitle: Nietzsche in France, 1872-1972
By: Douglas Smith.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence.; Philosophy, French -- 19th century.; Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
Description: For Nietzsche, the term transvaluation designates a transformation in value, a re-valorization, of an object or concept by those forces which appropriate it. Transvaluations sets out to trace some of the transvaluations undergone by Nietzsche's work in France in the course of the first century of its reception.

As such, it constitutes a kind of genealogy, aiming to locate the work of Nietzsche with reference to some of the institutional and political forces which gave it the meanings it has acquired and lost over the years. The result is a historical perspective on the place occupied by Nietzsche within French thought, supplying the background to the continuing importance of his work within contemporary debates in Continental philosophy and critical theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-244) and index.