ABSTRACT
Nietzsche is best known as a relentless critic of modernity whose constructive agenda betrays an unprecedented and horrifying naivete. Perhaps the most notorious of his constructive prescriptions is his call for a "revaluation of values" that would catalyze transcendence of nihilism. In light of Nietzsche's apparent reliance on the ministrations of these preparatory agents to enact a revaluation of values, many critics dismiss as fabulous his alleged campaign to transcend nihilism. If Nietzsche's constructive agenda were reproduced faithfully by the recipe for redemption surveyed above, then his critics would be justified in dismissing his call for a revaluation of values. On various occasions Nietzsche praises, prophesies, or glorifies philosophers of the future, good Europeans, great men, free spirits, Dionysian men, blond beasts, gay scientists, complementary men, nobles, immoralists, masters, higher men, legislators of new values, Zarathustra, the Antichrist and the Ubermensch –he nowhere advances a typology or hierarchy of these estimable types.
