An ambitious venture into Nietzsche’s envisioned philosophy for the future.
 
Nietzsche advocated for a post-theistic “philosophy of the future”—a new approach to human reality that would bend Western thought away from nihilism in a life-affirming, value-creative direction. His early demise left this endeavor only just begun. In Nietzsche Pursued, Richard Schacht examines Nietzsche’s revisionist approach to familiar philosophical topics, exploring how some may be further pursued in Nietzschean ways.

Each chapter focuses on one topic that is central to Nietzsche's vision of what philosophy can and should be and do. Among them: his kind of naturalism, humanity, perspectivism, morality, and music. Building on his analysis in Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy, Schacht invites readers to see with new appreciation the ongoing significance of Nietzsche’s thought for philosophy’s future.

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.

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Introduction
1. Toward a Post-Scientistic Naturalism: Naturalizing without Dehumanizing
2. Toward a Post-Essentialist Philosophical Anthropology: Nietzsche’s Way with the Human
3. Toward a Post-Subjectivist Perspectivism: Nietzsche and the Perspectival
4. Toward a Post-Moralist Moral Philosophy: A Nietzschean Naturalizing of the Moral
5. Toward a Post-Political Political Philosophy: Reconceiving the Political
6. Toward a Post-Metaphysical Metaphysics? On “Will to Power”—and More
7. Toward a Post-Romantic Reckoning with Music: Music as Muse

Addenda
8. Nietzsche and Science: A Cautionary Tale
9. Renderings and Takings: From “Wissenschaft” to “Übermensch”

Backstory and Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography of Related Nietzsche Studies
Index