Richard Schacht is an American philosopher, currently professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a renowned expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche developed his philosophy during the late 19th century amid growing criticism of G. W. F. Hegel's philosophic system.Nietzsche owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung and admitted that Schopenhauer was...

, is the editor of International Nietzsche Studies and is currently Executive Director of the North American Nietzsche Society. His philosophical interests include continental philosophy

Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy, in contemporary usage, refers to a set of traditions of 19th and 20th century philosophy from mainland Europe. This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and...

, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

 and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

 and concepts such as human nature

Human nature

Human nature refers to the distinguishing characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting, that humans tend to have naturally....

, alienation

Social alienation

The term social alienation has many discipline-specific uses; Roberts notes how even within the social sciences, it “is used to refer both to a personal psychological state and to a type of social relationship”...

 and value theory

Value theory

Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why and to what degree people should value things; whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. This investigation began in ancient philosophy, where it is called axiology or ethics. Early philosophical...

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Authored

• Alienation (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970) Doubleday Anchor (paperback) edition: 1971
  • British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin)
• 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.
• 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)

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)
• Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Rethinking Nietzsches's Prelude to Philosophy's Future (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
• On Human Nature: Readings in Philosophical Anthropology (New York: Prentice Hall, forthcoming)
• The Interpretive Tradition, Volume Four of the Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy (New York: Norton, forthcoming)
• The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy, 5 volumes (New York: Norton, forthcoming)

External links

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