Richard Schacht

Richard Schacht (born 1941) ^[1] is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ^[2] now residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

He is an expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, was the editor of International Nietzsche Studies, ^[3] and is former executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society. ^{[4] [5]} His philosophical interests include European philosophy after Kant, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and concepts such as human nature, alienation, and value theory.

Publications

Authored

• Alienation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1970. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
  • Doubleday Anchor (paperback). 1971.
  • British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin) Reprinted 1984: University Press of America; Reprinted 2015: Psychology Press
• Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975), Pitt Paperback edition: 1975

• Nietzsche (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983), Routledge Paperback ed.: 1985. Reissued 1994. ^[6]

• Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984). Reissued 1994.
• The Future of Alienation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
• Making Sense of Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)
• Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring, with Philip Kitcher (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding his Way. University of Chicago Press. 2023. ISBN   9780226822853. OCLC   1304353648 . Retrieved April 6, 2023.

Edited

• Nietzsche: Selections (New York: Macmillan, 1993)
• Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)
• Human, All Too Human, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (NY: Cambridge U P, 1996)
• Schacht, Richard, ed. (2000). Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511570636. ISBN   9780511570636. OCLC   715157136 . Retrieved March 14, 2023.
• The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant – 1: The Interpretive Tradition. W. W. Norton & Company. 2017. ISBN   978-0-393-97468-3 . Retrieved March 14, 2023.

See also

• Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

References

1. Cataloging-in-Publication Data for R. Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (1994).
2. Priest, Stephen (January 1, 2005), "Schacht, Richard" , The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199264797.001.0001, ISBN   978-0-19-926479-7 , retrieved June 24, 2022
3. "Series – International Nietzsche Studies". University of Illinois Press. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
4. "North American Nietzsche Society". Stanford University . Retrieved March 9, 2023.
5. "Our History". North American Nietzsche Society . Retrieved March 11, 2023.
6. Rorty, Richard (June 17, 1983). "Unsoundness in perspective". No. 4185. The Times Literary Supplement. p. 619-620. Retrieved August 31, 2025.

External links

• Homepage at the Philosophy department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.