Nietzsche Pursued

Richard Schacht is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His many books on European philosophy after Kant include, most recently, Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

"Schacht teases out how Nietzsche's glimmering, widely strewn hints about a philosophy of the future might actually implicate a more subtle 'middle way' than the blinkered, mutually exclusive options fashionable today. Drawing on a long career spent studying Nietzsche's manifold writings, Schacht announces the arrival of a Nietzschean philosopher who would be post-moralistic, post-metaphysical, and post-political, yet still have much to say to post-modernists and post-structuralists, who persists in seeing him as one of their own (despite the differences on display here). A stimulating read, this book would make an ideal text for an upper-level seminar. Sure to become a critical touchstone."

• Reference KeyIntroduction1. Toward a Post-Scientistic Naturalism: Naturalizing without Dehumanizing2. Toward a Post-Essentialist Philosophical Anthropology: Nietzsche’s Way with the Human3. Toward a Post-Subjectivist Perspectivism: Nietzsche and the Perspectival4. Toward a Post-Moralist Moral Philosophy: A Nietzschean Naturalizing of the Moral5. Toward a Post-Political Political Philosophy: Reconceiving the Political6. Toward a Post-Metaphysical Metaphysics? On “Will to Power”—and More7. Toward a Post-Romantic Reckoning with Music: Music as MuseAddenda8. Nietzsche and Science: A Cautionary Tale9. Renderings and Takings: From “Wissenschaft” to “Übermensch”Backstory and AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography of Related Nietzsche StudiesIndex