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.

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  • Alienation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1970. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  • 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)
  • Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding his Way. University of Chicago Press. 2023. ISBN 9780226822853. OCLC 1304353648. Retrieved 2023-04-06.

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References

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  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.
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  • Homepage at the Philosophy department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.