Alexander Nehamas

Background

Nehamas, Alexander was born on March 22, 1946 in Athens, Greece. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of Albert and Christine Nehamas.

Education

1 child, Nicholas Albert Glimcher. Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1971, Doctorate in Philosophy (honorary) Athens, 1993.

Career

He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory. In 1964, he enrolled to Swarthmore College. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.

His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy of Socrates, but he gained a wider audience with his 1985 book Nietzsche: Life as Literature (Harvard University Press), in which he argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text.

Nehamas has said, "The virtues of life are comparable to the virtues of good writing—style, connectedness, grace, elegance—and also, we must not forget, sometimes getting it right." More recently, he has become well known for his view that philosophy should provide a form of life, as well as for his endorsement of the artistic value of television This view also becomes evident in his book Only a Promise of Happiness.

The title itself is later in this work used as one definition of beauty with reference to Stendhal. In that sense, beauty can be found in all media.

As Nehamas claims in the same work: ″Aesthetic features are everywhere, but that has nothing to do with where the arts can be foundation

Works of art can be beautiful because everything can be beautiful, but that doesn"t mean that anything can be a work of art″ In 2008, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.

Achievements

• Alexander Nehamas has been listed as a noteworthy philosophy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of Modern Language Association, North America Nietzsche Society (executive committee 1988-1991), American Society Aesthetics, Modern Greek Studies Association 1983-1989, American Philosophical Association (chairman program 1982-1983, executive committee 1990-1992, vice president 2002, president 2003), Phi Beta Kappa (visiting professor 1989, visiting scholar 1995).

Interests

• Ancient Greek philosophy, comparative literature, aesthetics.

Connections

Married Susan Glimcher, June 22, 1983. 1 child, Nicholas Albert Glimcher.

Father:

Albert Nehamas

Mother:

Christine Nehamas

Spouse:

Susan Glimcher

child:

Nicholas Albert Glimcher Nehamas