Richard Schacht (born 1941)Cataloging-in-Publication Data for R. Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (1994). is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign now residing in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He is an expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, was the editor of International Nietzsche Studies, and is former executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society. 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
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.
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)
See also Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
References
External links Homepage at the Philosophy department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.