Richard Schacht is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author and editor of numerous other books relating to European philosophy after Kant.

• PrefaceReference KeyIntroductionPrologue1 Toward Understanding NietzschePart I Nietzsche Becoming Nietzsche2 The Nietzsche of Human, All Too HumanAddendum: The Nietzsche of Daybreak3 The Nietzsche of Joyful Inquiry I–IV4 The Nietzsche of Thus Spoke Zarathustra5 The Nietzsche of Beyond Good and EvilAddendum: The Nietzsche of Joyful Inquiry V6 The Nietzsche of On the Genealogy of MoralityAddendum: The Nietzsche of 1888Part II Nietzsche Becoming—What?7 Nietzsche as Nihilist?8 Nietzsche as Existentialist?9 Nietzsche as Individualist?10 Nietzsche as “Free Spirit”?11 Nietzsche as Naturalist?Backstory and AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography of Related Nietzsche StudiesIndex

"Schacht provides a 'large-scale reconsideration' of Nietzsche’s work that emphasizes the need to examine the philosopher’s assertions in the context of his entire corpus to understand the ways in which his thinking evolved. Doing so, the author contends, reveals that Nietzsche’s reputation as a nihilist is overblown . . . [and that] Nietzsche wasn’t an individualist . . . Scholars will find this an evenhanded . . . take on Nietzsche."