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 2023-03-16.
  • Doubleday Anchor (paperback). 1971.
  • British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin) Reprinted 1984: University Press of America; Reprinted 2015: Psychology Press
• 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.

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)
• Schacht, Richard, ed. (2000). Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511570636. ISBN 9780511570636. OCLC 715157136. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
• The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant – 1: The Interpretive Tradition. W. W. Norton & Company. 2017. ISBN 978-0-393-97468-3. Retrieved 2023-03-14.