Editorial Note

For the North American Nietzsche Society group meeting at the 2013 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA in Baltimore, the program committee invited Professor Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center) to deliver remarks on the contribution and the uniqueness of Nietzsche’s genealogical method. At the panel, chaired by R. Lanier Anderson on December 28, 2013, Rahul Chaudhri (Stanford University) and Mark Migotti (University of Calgary) commented on his presentation, “Genealogies of Morals: Nietzsche’s Method Compared.” We are pleased to present Professor Prinz’s essay and both commentaries in this issue.

Also included here are the winning selections from the annual North American Nietzsche Society call for papers for 2013, presented at the 2014 Central Division Meeting in Chicago. In a panel chaired by James Conant on February 27, Allison Merrick (California State University, San Marcos) spoke on genealogy and Justin Remhof (Santa Clara University) on fictionalism and the allegation of “inconsistency” that bedevils Nietzsche’s work. And on March 1, Richard Schacht chaired a group session including presentations by Guy Elgat (Northwestern University) on the epistemic acuity of ressentiment, and Donovan Miyasaki (Wright State University) who spoke to the debates over freedom and agency in Nietzsche.

Finally, at the 2014 Pacific Meeting in San Diego, NANS organized a panel titled “‘Why Do I Write Such Books?’: On the Distinctive Difficulty of Nietzsche Interpretation,” again chaired by R. Lanier Anderson. Invited speakers included Christian Benne (University of Copenhagen), Kathleen M. Higgins (The University of Texas at Austin), and Tom Stern (University College London). Professor Higgins was unable to attend, but we are pleased to be able to present in this issue papers by Professors Benne and Stern.