Michael J. McNeal is an independent, interdisciplinary scholar who taught political philosophy and international relations at universities in the United States for two decades and serves as Secretary of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. Dr. McNeal is the creator and editor of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Life Affirmation: Experimenting with Art and Science to Transfigure Humankind (Palgrave, 2024), and Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine: A Critique of Truth and Values (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is 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 US Approaches to the Arab Spring: International Relations and Democracy Promotion (I.B. Tauris, 2018). His work has also appeared in multiple scholarly anthologies and journals.