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.

  1. ^ Cataloging-in-Publication Data for R. Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (1994).
  2. ^ Priest, Stephen (2005-01-01), "Schacht, Richard", The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199264797.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-926479-7, retrieved 2022-06-24
  3. ^ "Series – International Nietzsche Studies". University of Illinois Press. Archived from the original on 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  4. ^ "North American Nietzsche Society". Stanford University. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  5. ^ "Our History". North American Nietzsche Society. Retrieved 2023-03-11.