 A student of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Babich also worked with Jacob Taubes and Paul Feyerabend among others.In 1996, Babich founded (and edits) the journal "New Nietzsche Studies", echoing the spirit of the 1974 book, "The New Nietzsche," the pathbreaking collection edited by David Blair Allison (1944-2016).Following research work at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Université François-Rabelais, Tours (France), Freie Universität Berlin and Universität Tübingen (Germany) Babich has a doctoral degree from Boston College.