Princeton Philosophy professor Alexander Nehamas will be named Honorary Doctor in the Philosophy department at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
The ceremony will be held on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 19:30, at the “Alexandros Papanastasiou” Hall. The Hall is located in the old building of the Aristotle University’s Philosophy department.
– Alexander Nehamas
Alexander Nehamas was born in Athens in 1946. He is a professor of philosophy and an Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 professor in the Humanities department at Princeton University. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory.
He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967. He completed his doctorate on Predication in Plato’s Phaedo, under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Princeton’s faculty in 1990.
His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics and the philosophy of Socrates. He gained a wider audience with his 1985 book: “Nietzsche: Life as Literature”, which argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text. 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. In 2008, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.
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