Alexander Nehamas | |
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| Born | 22 March 1946 |
| Alma mater | 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.