Swarthmore College (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
Thesis
Predication and the Theory of Forms in the 'Phaedo' (1971)
Doctoral advisor
Gregory Vlastos
Doctoral students
Bernard Reginster
Main interests
Ancient Greek philosophy, comparative literature, aesthetics
Alexander Nehamas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is a Greek-born American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature and the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990.[1][2] He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Member of the American Philosophical Society (since 2016[3]), the Academy of Athens since 2018. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory.
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to AlexanderNehamas. Nehamas' page at the Princeton department of philosophy List of articles (in Greek) "An Essay on Beauty and Judgment" Nehamas interviewed...
Thompson 1990, pp. 106–107; Gordon 1988, p. 161; Nehamas 1989, p. 31. Gordon 1988, p. 161. Nehamas 1989, p. 31. Brown 1991, pp. 185, 188–192. Bagemihl...
philosophy, including Terence Irwin, Richard Kraut, Paul Woodruff, and AlexanderNehamas. In his work The Philosophy of Socrates: a Collection of Critical...
relevant or valid endeavour. Expanding upon Foucault's position, AlexanderNehamas writes that Foucault suggests "an author [...] is whoever can be understood...
Daniel Dennett Virginia Held John Cooper T. M. Scanlon Stanley Cavell AlexanderNehamas Ernest Sosa Jerry Fodor Seyla Benhabib Kwame Anthony Appiah Christine...
creative writing Paul Needham – senior librarian at the Scheide Library AlexanderNehamas – professor of philosophy Philip Nord – professor of history Joyce...
fashion." Nehamas shows that this interpretation exists totally independently of physics and does not presuppose the truth of cosmology. Nehamas concluded...
full-length study of Nietzsche by an analytical philosopher. Then later, AlexanderNehamas, came out with his book, Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985). O....
Nietzsche to that of philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, AlexanderNehamas, and Rorty. Nehamas argued that Nietzsche has a "double relation" to the philosophical...
continued by impassioned reviews by Benjamin Barber in Harper's; by AlexanderNehamas in the London Review of Books; and by David Rieff in The Times Literary...
(philosophy) - Albert Hofstadter - Aleksei Losev - Alexander Gerard - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten - AlexanderNehamas - American Society for Aesthetics - Anandavardhana...
highly regarded by some contemporary philosophers like Richard Rorty, AlexanderNehamas, and Stanley Cavell, his work has been regarded by other analytic...
impassioned reviews of political theorist Benjamin Barber in Harper's; AlexanderNehamas, a scholar of ancient philosophy and Nietzsche, in the London Review...
McGuire, "On Victor Brombert’s Ninetieth Birthday" – reflections by AlexanderNehamas, philosopher and friend of Brombert. Ruth Stevens, "Brombert honored...
promotes an intellectual renunciation (c.f. denouncing) of desire. For AlexanderNehamas, it is only the locating of desire to which the sense of beauty exists...
the field of cytopathology Diogenes Allen – professor of philosophy AlexanderNehamas – professor of philosophy George A. Economou – optical systems expert...
License AlexanderNehamas – Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature (Greek philosophy, philosophy of art), Princeton University Alexander Mitchell...
Business School. Yiannis N. Moschovakis (1956), set theorist at UCLA. AlexanderNehamas (1964), academic, professor of Humanities, Philosophy and Comparative...
Neander (1954–2020) Antonio Negri (born 1933) Oskar Negt (1934–2024) AlexanderNehamas (born 1946) Susan Neiman (born 1955) Paul Nelson (born 1958) Nancy...
Notable contributors include Gerard Casey, Theodoros Christidis, AlexanderNehamas, Vasiliki Karavakou, Fred Miller, Ron Polansky, Michael Polemis, and...
Philosophy as Practical Wisdom: Chair: Juliana González (Mexico) Speakers: AlexanderNehamas (Greece/US), Chen Lai (China) Philosophy and Public Life: Chair: Hans...
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