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.
  • 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]

Edited

See also

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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  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.
  • Homepage at the Philosophy department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.