Richard Schacht
Richard Schacht is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He is a noted expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, is the editor of International Nietzsche Studies, and is Executive Director of the North American Nietzsche Society. His philosophical interests include continental philosophy, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and concepts such as human nature, alienation, and value theory.Publications
Authored
- Alienation, Doubleday Anchor edition: 1971
- *British edition : 1971
- Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre, Pitt Paperback edition: 1975
- Nietzsche, Routledge Paperback ed.: 1985. Reissued 1994.
- Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant. Reissued 1994.
- The Future of Alienation
- Making Sense of Nietzsche
- Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring, with Philip Kitcher
Edited
- Nietzsche: Selections
- Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality
- Human, All Too Human, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R.J. Hollingdale
- Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Rethinking Nietzsches's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
- On Human Nature: Readings in Philosophical Anthropology
- The Interpretive Tradition, Volume Four of the Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy
- The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy, 5 volumes
