The North American Nietzsche Society held the first of its stand-alone conferences (apart from the American Philosophical Association) at Hunter College's Roosevelt House in New York City on October 14–17, 2016. The three-day event featured invited keynotes by Bernard Reginster (Brown University), Christopher Janaway (Southampton), and Beatrix Himmelmann (Arctic University of Norway). In addition, the program committee selected seven blind-reviewed abstracts from a pool of over sixty submissions. The conference concluded with a group discussion on Nietzsche's conception of philosophy, featuring invited presentations by Paul Loeb (Puget Sound), Jacqueline Scott (Loyola), and Daniel Conway (Texas A&M).
A selection of papers from the conference is included in this issue. The first article is Christopher Janaway's keynote talk investigating what it would be to justify suffering. A second keynote, from Beatrix Himmelmann, discusses the relationship between right, justice, and dignity in Nietzsche's ethical thought. (Bernard Reginster's presentation is forthcoming elsewhere.) Four of...
