Richard Schacht (born 1941) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a noted expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, is the editor of International Nietzsche Studies, and is Executive Director of the North American Nietzsche Society. His philosophical interests include continental philosophy, particularly Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and concepts such as human nature, alienation, and value theory. Publications Authored Alienation (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970), Doubleday Anchor (paperback) edition: 1971 British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin) 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) Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Rethinking Nietzsches's Prelude to Philosophy's Future (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) On Human Nature: Readings in Philosophical Anthropology (New York: Prentice Hall, forthcoming) The Interpretive Tradition, Volume Four of the Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy (New York: Norton, forthcoming) The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy, 5 volumes (New York: Norton, forthcoming) See also Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist References External links Homepage at the Philosophy department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 1941 births 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American philosophers 20th-century essayists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American philosophers 21st-century essayists American ethicists American male essayists American male non-fiction writers Anthologists Continental philosophers Epistemologists Historians of philosophy Living people Metaphysicians Ontologists Nietzsche scholars Philosophers of culture Philosophers of history Philosophy academics Philosophy writers Princeton University alumni Social philosophers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty