Editorial Note

Abstract

On March 27, 2013, at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco, the North American Nietzsche Society invited reflections on Professor Robert C. Solomon's reading of Nietzsche as an existentialist philosopher who exhorts us to live our lives as richly and as meaningfully as possible. This session, a tribute to Solomon's inestimable contribution to Nietzsche studies, was organized as a ten-year retrospective on his book, Living with Nietzsche: What the Great Immoralist Has to Teach Us (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). The session was chaired by R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford University), and speakers included Professor Ariela Tubert (University of Puget Sound), a friend and former student of Solomon's at The University of Texas at Austin, and Professor Emeritus Ivan Soll (University of Wisconsin–Madison), his longtime friend and colleague. Professor Solomon's death on January 2, 2007, while he was traveling through Zurich, came as a great shock to the many people—the numerous colleagues and countless students—whose lives were touched by his work and his infectious enthusiasm for philosophy, for art, for teaching, for traveling and by his passion for life. We are very pleased to include in this issue an invited reply to Tubert and Soll by Professor Solomon's wife, Kathleen M. Higgins (The University of Texas at Austin), and on behalf of the North American Nietzsche Society, I would like to thank everyone who made this retrospective tribute possible.