Alexander Nehamas

Alexander Nehamas is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton University. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Foucault, and literary theory. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, and completed his doctorate on Plato under Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at various universities in the United States, including the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania, before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990. He is currently the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities. He is 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.