Richard Schacht
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Schacht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Schacht |
| SIGNATURE | SCHACHT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way
Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way
Schopenhauer As Educator
Alienation
Nietzsche’s Naturalism Clarified?
“Nietzsche and naturalism” has rightly become a topic of great interest and considerable debate in recent years. Christian Emden, a German intellectual historian at Rice University (USA) and author of two previous books on aspects of Nietzsche’s thought, has made a useful contribution to consideration of this topic in his Nietzsche’s Naturalism (henceforth “NN”), by drawing attention to and exploring the intellectual context indicated in his subt…
My Nietzsche at Thirty
In what follows I respond to the contributions of Helmut Heit, Maudemarie Clark, and John Richardson to a retrospective symposium held on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of my 1983 book Nietzsche. There is much more in the three contributions than I can possibly respond to here, so I have been selective, commenting on some of the things said in them that seem to me to be most relevant to an understanding and appreciati…
Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant
Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant: these are the seven philosophers who stand out from the rest in what is known as the `modern' period in philosophy. Their thought defines the mainstream of classical or early modern philosophy, largely responsible for shaping philosophy as we now know it.In a clear and lively style, Richard Schacht has written a thorough introduction to the work of these seven founding fathers of moder…
Nietzsche and Lamarckism
Nietzsche considered it to be important for philosophers to be scientifically informed in their philosophical thinking. I suggest that this conviction led him to embrace a biological idea that seemed at the time to be scientifically sound but subsequently turned out not to be. (He then compounded the problem by making much of what he took to be its social and political implications.) I refer to the now-discredited (Lamarckian) idea that it is pos…
Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Normativity
This chapter argues that Nietzsche is a kind of philosophical naturalist, for whom normativity (along with all other human phenomena) must be reconceived naturalistically — but that his naturalism is not a ‘scientistic’ one. His naturalism insists upon the mundanely developmental origins of everything human, but recognizes the historically and culturally emergent character of much of that development. It further involves conceiving much of human …
Introductions to Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed works and also his unpublished notebooks. The essays address such topics as his criticism of morality and Christianity, his doctrines of the will to po…
Nietzsche: After the death of God
God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. – And we – we still have to vanquish his shadow too ... When will we complete our de-deification of nature? When may we begin to naturalize our human selves [ uns Menschen ... zu vernatürlichen ] in terms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature!( The Gay Science 108–9)
Nietzsche's Naturalism
Nietzsche, I contend, and many agree, was a fundamentally “naturalistic” thinker. But there are many ways of thinking that can be called “naturalistic”; and it would be a mistake to suppose that any particular one of them is what he advocated and pursued—especially since there are some kinds of naturalism of which he himself is disdainful. So we need to consider what kind of naturalism Nietzsche's is—particularly as it relates to the natural scie…
Translating Nietzsche: The Case of Kaufmann
No one has loomed larger in Nietzsche's English-language translation history (and interpretation history) than Walter Kaufmann. We owe much to him. It seems to me, however, that just as he needed surpassing as an interpreter, he also needs surpassing as a translator; for there is a good deal that is problematic about his Nietzsche translations, in a variety of respects—some of which has affected his interpretation in ways that I consider unfortun…
Finding an Ending
Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung. This book offers an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner’s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. The book draws out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. It shows how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, …
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring
Wotan’s Judgments
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Nietzsche’s “Will to Power”
Nietzsche: The Great Philosophers
Making Sense of Nietzsche: Reflections Timely and Untimely
Assorted Opinions and Maxims
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropri…
Human, All Too Human
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
The Wanderer and His Shadow
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
Philosophical Anthropology: What, Why and How
For past half-century, on other side of English Channel, there has been something called anthropology, which Heidegger did honor of distinguishing from his existential-philosophical fundamental ontology of Dasein in Being and Time. It may have been eclipsed by existential philosophy, especially from a distance, and may have been criticized by European philosophers as diverse as Heidegger, Althusser and Foucault; but it has persisted as a philosop…
Making Sense of Nietzsche: Reflections Timely and Untimely
Hegel and After. Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre
Nietzsche's Naturalism
Nietzsche, I contend, and many agree, was a fundamentally “naturalistic” thinker. But there are many ways of thinking that can be called “naturalistic”; and it would be a mistake to suppose that any particular one of them is what he advocated and pursued—especially since there are some kinds of naturalism of which he himself is disdainful. So we need to consider what kind of naturalism Nietzsche's is—particularly as it relates to the natural scie…
Nietzsche and Lamarckism
Nietzsche considered it to be important for philosophers to be scientifically informed in their philosophical thinking. I suggest that this conviction led him to embrace a biological idea that seemed at the time to be scientifically sound but subsequently turned out not to be. (He then compounded the problem by making much of what he took to be its social and political implications.) I refer to the now-discredited (Lamarckian) idea that it is pos…
Alienation
Nietzsche and Nihilism
The Existentialists and their Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds. From Rationalism to Existentialism
Alienation
Hegel and After. Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre
Nietzsche & Philosophy
Nietzsche (Arguments of the Philosophers)
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Nietzsche on human nature
(1989). Nietzsche on human nature. History of European Ideas: Vol. 11, No. 1-6, pp. 883-892
Philosophical Anthropology: What, Why and How
For past half-century, on other side of English Channel, there has been something called anthropology, which Heidegger did honor of distinguishing from his existential-philosophical fundamental ontology of Dasein in Being and Time. It may have been eclipsed by existential philosophy, especially from a distance, and may have been criticized by European philosophers as diverse as Heidegger, Althusser and Foucault; but it has persisted as a philosop…
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and the Future of Self‐alienation
Politics has been defined as “the art of the possible.” But where possibilities are concerned, choices must be made; and this leads us directly to value theory, as do both educational theory and critical social theory. Indeed, they all lead not only to value theory, but to “quality of life” theory — and this in turn raises what might be called the question of a normative philosophical anthropology, concerned with the interpretation and assessment…
Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals
Assorted Opinions and Maxims
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche
The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropri…
Human, All Too Human
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
The Wanderer and His Shadow
This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both vol…
Nietzsche: The Great Philosophers
Making Sense of Nietzsche: Reflections Timely and Untimely
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Nietzsche’s “Will to Power”
Finding an Ending
Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner’s four-part Ring of the Nibelung. This book offers an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner’s achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. The book draws out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. It shows how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, …
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