Richard Schacht

Richard Schacht (born 1941) 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, served as the editor of *International Nietzsche Studies*, and was the former executive director of the North American Nietzsche Society. His philosophical interests include post-Kantian European philosophy, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and concepts such as human nature, alienation, and value theory. Schacht's authored works include 'Alienation' (1970), 'Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre' (1975), 'Nietzsche' (1983), 'Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant' (1984), 'The Future of Alienation' (1994), 'Making Sense of Nietzsche' (1995), 'Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring' (with Philip Kitcher, 2004), and 'Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding his Way' (2023). He has also edited several works, including 'Nietzsche: Selections' (1993), 'Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality' (1994), 'Human, All Too Human' by Friedrich Nietzsche (1996), 'Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future' (2000), and 'The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant – 1: The Interpretive Tradition' (2017).