Titles
Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Senate Council Chair, UIUC Faculty-Student Senate
Executive Director, North American Nietzsche Society
Key responsibilities
Teaching, research, professional and university service, guiding the work of the UIUC Senate and the activities of the North American Nietzsche Society.
Department or workgroup
Department of Philosophy
Electronic mail address
rschacht@uiuc.edu
Web address
http://www.phil.uiuc.edu/
Office phone
217-333-1939
FAX number
217-337-7551
RICHARD LAWRENCE SCHACHT
Professional Experience and Positions:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1980–
Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC, 1990–
Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory, UIUC, 1981–
Chair, Department of Philosophy, UIUC, 1979–91
Assistant Professor, UIUC, 1967–71
Associate Professor, UIUC, 1971–80
Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, 1969 (summer)
Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1973
Scholar in Residence, Tübingen University, 1975
Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 1979
Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, 1988
Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIUC, 1994
Education:
Harvard College (B.A. 1963, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa)
Princeton University (M.A., 1965)
Tübingen University, West Germany (1966–67, no degree taken)
Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967)
Areas of Interest:
European Philosophy (19th and 20th Centuries), esp. Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, Existential Philosophy
Philosophical Anthropology
Social Philosophy
Value Theory
Philosophy of Art
Classical Moden Philosophy
Courses and Seminars Taught:
European Philosophy in the 19th Century (Hegel to Nietzsche)
European Philosophy in the 20th Century
History of Modern Philosophy (Descartes to Kant)
Existential Philosophy (Heidegger, Sartre, Jaspers)
Phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau–Ponty)
Philosophical Anthropology
Philosophical Conceptions of Human Nature
Biology and Human Nature
Value Theory
Hegel
Nietzsche
Marx and Marxian Philosophy
Philosophy in Literature
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy of Education
Introduction to Philosophy
For current and future course information, see below.
Professional Activities:
American Philosophical Association
National Board of Officers, 1990-96
Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession (1983-86; Chair, 1990-96)
Committee on Lecture, Publications and Research 91988-91)
Ad Hoc Committee on Unionization and Collective Bargaining (1974-76)
Matchette Prize Committee (1985-87)
Western Division Program Committee (1978-79, 1990-91)
Western Division Nominating Committee (1986-89)
Western Division Executive Committee (1986-89)
North American Nietzsche Society NANSINFO
Executive Committee (1981– )
Program Committee (1981–87); Chair (1984–87)
Editor, Nietzsche News
Editor, Nietzscheana
International Sociological Assoc. Research Committee on Alienation Theory
Executive Committee (1980– )
Vice President (1980– )
Program Committee Chair, Xth World Congress
National Endowment for the Humanities
Director, Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1989, 1991)
Panelist, faculty fellowships and other competitions, various years
Consultant on various proposals and projects
Editor, International Nietzsche Studies, University of Illinois Press
Editorial Boards
Nietzsche-Studien
History of Philosophy Quarterly
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
University of Illinois Press
Referee for numerous presses, journals, tenure and promotion reviews, etc.
Lectures and other presentations at many universities and conferences in the US and abroad.
University Functions (at Illinois, various years):
Campus
UIUC Senate and Senate Council, Chair
All-University Senates Conference
Emerging Program Initiatives Committee (EPIC)
Council on Undergraduate Education, Chair
Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Council on Program Evaluation (COPE)
COPE Task Force (Secondary Education)
Chancellor's 1987 Allerton Conference Planning Committee (Chair)
Campus Honors Program, Advisory Committee
Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security,Advisory Committee
Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, Awards Committee
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
NCAA Certification Review Steering Committee
Graduate College
Research Policy Committee (RPC)
RPC NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Review , Chair
NCSA (National Computational Science Alliance) Advisory Board
Graduate College Executive Committee
Humanities and Creative Arts Area Committee
NEH Summer Fellowship Nomination Committee
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Interim Dean
Executive Committee
Policy and Development Committee
Courses and Curricula Committee
Search Committees
Chancellor of UIUC (twice; in 1987–88, Chair)
Director of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Head of the Dept of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Chair
Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Chair
Director of the University of Illinois Press
Administrator Evaluation Committees
Director of the School of Humanities
Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts
Vice Chancellor for Research/Dean of Graduate College, Chair
Publications
Books Authored:
1) Alienation (Garden City: Doubleday, 1970) Doubleday Anchor (paperback) edition: 1971
British edition (hard cover and paperback): 1971 (London: George Allen & Unwin)
Reprinted by University Press of America: 1984
Reissue by University of Illinois Press forthcoming
2) Hegel and After: Studies in Continental Philosophy Between Kant and Sartre (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975) Pitt Paperback edition: 1975
3) Nietzsche (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) Routledge Paperback ed.: 1985. Reissued 1994.
4) Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984). Reissued 1994.
5) The Future of Alienation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
6) Making Sense of Nietzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995)
Books Edited:
1) Nietzsche: Selections (New York: Macmillan, 1993)
2) Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)
3) Human, All Too Human, by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (NY: Cambridge U P, 1996)
4) Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Rethinking Nietzsches's Prelude to Philosophy's Future (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
5) On Human Nature: Readings in Philosophical Anthropology (New York: Prentice Hall, forthcoming)
6) The Interpretive Tradition, Volume Four of the Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy (New York: Norton, forthcoming)
7) General Editor, The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy, 5 volumes (New York: Norton, forthcoming)
Essays:
1) "Hegel on Freedom," in Hegel: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. A. MacIntyre (Garden City: Doubleday, 1972), pp.298–328
2) "A Commentary on the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 23, No.'s 1/2 (February, 1972), pp. 1–31.
3) "Nietzsche and Nihilism," Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. IX, No. 1 (January, 1973), pp. 65–90
Reprinted, in revised form, in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. R. Solomon (Garden City: Doubleday, 1973), pp. 58–82
4) "Husserlian and Heideggerian Phenomenology," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 5 (October, 1972), pp. 239–314
5) "Kierkegaard on 'Truth is Subjectivity' and 'The Leap of Faith'," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. II, No. 3 (March, 1973), pp. 297–313
6) "Philosophy as Linguistic Analysis: A Nietzschean Critique," Philosophical Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (April, 1974), pp. 153–171
7) "On 'Existentialism,' Existenz–Philosophy, and Philosophical Anthropology," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 4 (October, 1974), pp. 291–305
8) "Alienation, the 'Is–Ought Gap, and Two Sorts of Discort," in Theories of Alienation, eds. R. F. Geyer and D. R. Schweitzer (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976), pp. 130–150
9) "Nietzsche on Art in The Birth of Tragedy," in Art and the Aesthetic: Theories and Critiques, eds. R. J. Schlafani and G. Dickie, New York: St. Martin's, 1977), pp. 369–412
Revised version in Second Edition (1989), pp. 489–512
10) "On Power and Powerlessness," in Major Social Issues: An InterdisciplinaryView, ed. J. M. Yinger and S. J. Cutler (New York: The Free Press, 1978), pp. 425–38
11) "Economic Alienation: With and Without Tears," The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XI, No. 2 (Winter, 1979–80), pp. 112–38
12) "Nietzsche's Second Thoughts About Art," The Monist, Vol. 64, No. 2 (April, 1982), pp. 231–46
13) "Doubts About Anomie and Anomia," in The Many Faces of Alienation and Anomie, eds. S. Giora Shohan and Anthony Grahame (White Plains, NY: Sheridan House, 1982), pp. 71–92
14) "A Way with Nietzsche," International Studies in Philosophy, Vol. XV, No. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 79–85
15) "Nietzsche on Philosophy, Interpretation and Truth," NOUS, Vol. 18, No. 1 (March, 1984), pp. 75–85
16) "Nietzsche: Art and Artists," in Philosophy Through Its Past, ed. Ted Honderich (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984), pp. 399–432 (Reprinted from Nietzsche)
17) "Social Structure, Social Alienation and Social Change," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January, 1986), pp. 47–57
Reprinted in Alienation Theories and De–Alienation Strategies, ed. David Schweitzer and R. Felix Geyer (Middlesex, England: Science Reviews Ltd., 1989), pp. 35–53
18) "Nietzsche on Philosophy, Interpretation and Truth," in Nietzsche As Affirmative Thinker, ed. Y. Yovel (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 1–19. (An expanded version of item 15)
19) "Marxism, Normative Theory, and Alienation," in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana: The Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988), pp. 565–80
20) "Nietzsche's Gay Science: or, How to Naturalize Cheerfully," in Reading Nietzsche, ed. R. Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 68–86
21) "Nietzsche" (an essay on Nietzsche's moral philosophy), in Ethics in the History of Philosophy, eds. Cavalier, Gouinlock and Sterba (New York: St. Martin's, 1989), pp. 271–305 (Adapted from Nietzsche.)
22) "Whither Determinism? On Humean Beings, Human Beings, and Originators," Inquiry, Vol. 32 (1989), pp. 55-77
23) "Nietzsche as Colleague," International Studies in Philosophy, vol. XXII, No. 2 (Summer, 1990), pp. 59–66.
24) "Philosophical Anthropology: What, Why and How," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. L Supplement (Fall, 1990), pp. 155–76
25) "Nietzsche on Human Nature," in History of European Ideas, Vol. 11 (1989), Part Three, Nietzsche's Influence on Contemporary Thought (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1990), pp. 883– 92.
26) "Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and the Future of Self–Alienation," American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (April, 1991), pp. 125–35.
27) "On Self–Becoming: Nietzsche and Nehamas's Nietzsche," Nietzsche–Studien, Vol. 21 (1992), pp. 266–80.
28) "On Philosophy's Canon, and Its Nutzen und Nachteil," The Monist, Vol. 76, No. 4 (October, 1993), pp. 421–35.
29) "Of Morals and Menschen: Nietzsche's Genealogy and Anthropology," in Nietzsche's Genealogy, Morality, ed. R. Schacht (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 427–48.
30) "Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy," in The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Bernd Magnus (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 151-79
31) "The Spinoza–Nietzsche Problem," Ethica III: Spinoza's Psychology, ed. Yirmiyahu Yovel (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
32) "Zarathustra/Zarathustra as Educator," in Nietzsche: A Critical Reader, ed. Peter R. Sedgwick (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 222–249.
33) "Morality, Humanity and Historicity: Remorse and Religion Revisited," in Religion and Morality, ed. D. Z. Phillips (New York: Macmillan Press/St. Martin's Press, 1995), pp. 39–55.
34) "Alienation Redux: From Here to Postmodernity," in Alienation, Ethnicity and Post–Modernism, ed. R. F. Geyer (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 1-16.
35) "A Nietzschean Education," in Philosophers on Education, ed. Amelie Rorty (London: Routledge, forthcoming). (A revised version of 32.)
36) "Nietzsche and Sport," International Studies in Philosophy (forthcoming)
37) "Nietzsche, Truth and Knowledge," in Nietzsche's Epistemological Writings and the Philosophy of Science, eds B. Babich and R. Cohen (Kluwer, forthcoming)
38) "After Transcencence: The Death of God and the Future of Religion," in Religion Without Transcendence, ed. D.Z. Phillips (New York: Harvest Press, forthcoming)
39) "Nietzschean Normativity," in Nietzsche's Postmoralism, ed. R. Schacht (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming)
40) "Naturalizing Humanity," in Nietzsche moraliste, ars vitae, le probleme de la culture et l'anthropologie, ed. Jacques Le Rider (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, forthcoming)
Review Articles, Misc.:
1) "The Hegelian Marxism of Georg Lukacs," Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, vol. II, No. 4 (Winter, 1971), pp. 69–79
2) "On Weiss on Records, Athletic Activity and the Athlete," Philosophical Exchange, Vol. I, No. 3 (Summer, 1972)
3) Review of Robert C. Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialist and Their Nineteenth–Century Backgrounds, Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 2 (April, 1974), pp. 268–271
4) Review of Bertell Ollman, Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XII, No. 2 (April, 1974), pp. 268–271
5) Review of John T. Wilcox, Truth and Value in Nietzsche, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XIV, No. 3 (Oct., 1976), pp. 490–94
6) Entry on "Schopenhauer, Arthur," Encyclopedia Americana, 1975 edition
7) "Foreword" to Michael Landmann, Philosophy: Its Mission and Its Disciplines, tr. David J. Parent (Normal, IL: Applied Literature Press, 1977), pp. vii–xiv
8) Review of Allen Wood, Karl Marx, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. XXI, No. 3 (July, 1983), pp. 403–06
9) Entry on "Philosophy, History of (since Kant)," Encyclopedia Americana, 1984 edition
10) Review of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner, in The Opera Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 3 (1983), pp. 210–212
11) Entry on "Nietzsche, Friedrich," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade (New York: Macmillan, 1987)
12) Review of Alastair Hanny, Kierkegaard, in Philosophical Review, vol. XCV, No. 2 (April, 1986), pp. 302–05
13) "On Classical Modern Philosophy––Again," Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July, 1986), pp. 187–89
14) Review of Alexander Nahamas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, in Philosophical Review, Vol. XCVII, No. 2 (April, 1988), pp. 266–70
15) Introduction to Nietzsche's Schopenhauer as Educator, trans. William Arrowsmith in Unmodern Observations, ed. W. Arrowsmith (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 149–61
16) Entry on "Alienation," Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland, 1992)
17) Entry on "Nineteenth Century continental Ethics," Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland, 1992)
18) Preface to Lester Hunt, Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. ix–xiv.
19) Script of double cassette, Nietzsche, in the "Giants of Philosophy" series (Nashville: Knowledge Products, 1991)
20) "Adventures of Immanence Revisited," Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 69–80
21) "Nineteenth Century Continental Ethics," A History of Western Ethics, eds. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 106–17 (a reprint of item 17)
22) "Existentialism," A Companion to Metaphysics, eds. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), pp. 149-55
23) "Nietzsche." A Companion to Metaphysics, eds. Kim and Sosa (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994), pp. 356-58
24) "Nietzsche," Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
25) "Eternal Recurrence," Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
26) "Big Questions and an Answer," in Falling in Love with Wisdom, ed. David Karnos and Robert Shoemaker (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993)
27) "Nietzsche's Coming of Age," The Times Literary Supplement, Oct. 11, 1991
28) Introduction to Nietzsche: Selections (New York: Macmillan, 1993), pp. 1–22.
29) Introduction to Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994), pp. ix–xxi.
30) Review of Irving M. Zeitlin, Nietzsche: A Re-Examination, Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January, 1996), pp. 94-97
31) Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. vii-xxix
32) Preface to Wolfgang Mueller-Lauter, Nietzsche: The Contradictions of His Philosophy and His Philosophy of Contradictions, trans. David Parent (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming)
33) "W(h)ither Graduate Study in Philosophy?" in Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Assn., Vol. 71, No. 5 (May 1998), pp. 99-115
Biographical:
Born 12/19/41 in Racine, Wisconsin
Parents: Robert Hugo Schacht and Alice Munger Schacht
First marriage: to Marsha Clinard, 8/63; div. 9/89
Children: Eric (b. 10/67) and Marshall (b. 10/69)
Second marriage: to Judith Rowan, 5/93
Office and Home Addresses and Phone Numbers
Department of Philosophy 2703 Holcomb Drive
University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61802
105 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Home Phone: (217) 337–1635
Home Fax: (217) 337–7551
Office Phone: (217) 333–1939
Office Fax: (217) 244–8355
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Philosophy 312, Classical Modern Philosophers
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