Michael J. McNeal is an independent scholar who teaches political philosophy and international relations at universities on the Front Range of Colorado. Among other publications, he is the editor of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Life-Affirmation: Experimenting with Art and Science to Transfigure Humankind (Palgrave, 2025), Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine: A Critique of Truth and Values (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the co-editor of Joy and Laughter in Nietzsche’s Philosophy: Alternative Liberatory Politics (Bloomsbury, 2022), European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche’s Philosophy (De Gruyter, 2020), and U.S. Approaches to the Arab Spring: International Relations and Democracy Promotion (I. B. Taurus, 2018). He has served as secretary of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society since 2019.