Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers,

This issue of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies comes to you in the extraordinary circumstances of a global pandemic, and the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has produced disruptions to academic life and to our normal lives that we could not have imagined just a few months ago. Among these disruptions, we have seen the postponement or cancelation of the regular meetings of the scholarly societies that support and facilitate so much of our work. The North American Nietzsche Society, the International Society for Nietzsche Studies, and the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain have all announced postponements to their activities for this year. And while the Eastern and Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association were held as planned in January and February, the Pacific Division Meeting, scheduled for April in San Francisco, was canceled altogether, and with it a book symposium organized for the North American Nietzsche Society (NANS) group session.

We are very pleased to be able to bring you that conversation in any event. In this issue, in addition to three regular articles—one on the nature of valuing in Nietzsche's moral psychology, one on the nature of aesthetic experience and the relationship between gratitude and the experience of beauty, and one on whether the will to power can be a source of normative authority, as some readers have argued—we present two book symposia. The first, on Andrew Huddleston's Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture, records the proceedings of the NANS Author-Meets-Critics session earlier this year and includes two critical commentaries and a reply by the author. For the second symposium, on Mark Alfano's Nietzsche's Moral Psychology, we are grateful to the three critical commentators and the author for working collaboratively to make their exchange available to our readership, even though they were unable to discuss their ideas in person.

As always, the editorship warmly welcomes your submissions electronically at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jns. For further information on the journal, submissions, and subscriptions, please visit http://www.jns.gsu.edu.

With all best wishes for the good health and well-being of our readership and their loved ones,