He rises up to "
transvalue all values," to create his own morality and his own rules, "beyond Good and Evil." (7) He exerts what Nietzsche calls his "will to power"--his will to create his own existence.
Nonetheless, Chandler provokes us to think differently about the limits and potential for critical thought in a context increasingly shaped by resilience techniques that
transvalue and depoliticize critique.
Neither guard was injured, according to their employer, Miami-based
Transvalue Inc., which specializes in transporting cash, precious metals, gems and jewelry.
Claudia Jones is the focus of Chapter Five, though Keith is interested in more than just the political essays for which she is best known; the 'various experiments' (memoir, testimony, poetry and epistolary) in 'form and narrative technique' attempt 'to
transvalue her personal experience of alienage into an analytic opportunity' (pp.
So long as one can speak ironically, cross-up and recross expectations, and
transvalue social norms, social context-no matter how delicately construed or thoroughly proscribed-cannot be said to be determinative.
The third characteristic of the special nature of Christian spiritual conversion is its power to
transvalue the other conversion types.
In short, humanities faculty might transcend our paralyzing melancholy by accepting "that the modern University is a ruined institution." For Readings, this will entail relinquishing those ruins as "the object of a romantic nostalgia for a lost wholeness," to view them rather as "the site of an attempt to
transvalue the fact that the University no longer inhabits a continuous history of progress, of the progressive revelation of a unifying idea" (129).
LaCapra views some forms of acting out sympathetically, as in the continuing need to assert one's bond with the dead through mourning, but he views with suspicion what he sees as "an important tendency in modern culture and thought to convert trauma into the occasion for sublimity, to
transvalue it into a test of the self or the group and an entry into the extraordinary," and, at least in part, he associates this latter tendency with modern literature and art, which, while keeping "in closest proximity to trauma," may also evoke and enact a resistance to working through it.
If MacKinnon's equality project is a massive attack on power as it constructs everything, cultural feminism is an effort to
transvalue values--to find women's or feminine values (like care, or intersubjectivity, or particularity) and to restore them to a place at least equal to, probably superior to, the corresponding male values (like self-interest, or objectivity, or generality) that have unjustly pushed their way to the top.
Despite Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares' frequent concern with identifying academics with loserdom while also trying to
transvalue what it means to lose, Shakespeareanized popular culture validates academia by making that popular culture its reflective surface.
This new "black" idiom insinuates itself into the space left vacant by the collapse of Western values, and the value of Humanity in particular, yet it seeks to
transvalue that space by reappropriating the "black scream / and chant," this elemental language that has always been under erasure but never annihilated.
According to Kaplan, you can choose those Jewish sancta that are meaningful to you and
transvalue them so as to make them relevant to you today.
