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Birth Name:

Alexander Nehamas

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Mar 22, 1946

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Athens, Attica, Greece

Age:

78

Zodiac Sign:

Aries

Astrology Data:

Sun

1°

Ari

11'

About Alexander Nehamas

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. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and Member of the American Philosophical Society (since 2016), the Academy of Athens since 2018. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Nehamas' page at the Princeton department of philosophy

• List of articles (in Greek)

• "An Essay on Beauty and Judgment"

• Nehamas interviewed on Friendship for Philosophy Bites podcast

• Audio of Alexander Nehamas's lecture "Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living" at the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities on Nov 17, 2005.

• Review of Nehamas' book Only A Promise of Happiness in the New York Sun

• Art, Interpretation And The Rest Of Life

• The Gifford Lectures 2008

• Interview in Greek daily Kathimerini (February 13, 2011) on the occasion of Nehamas' award of an honorary doctoral degree at the School of Fine Arts of Athens University (in Greek)

• Audio of An interview with Alexander Nehamas on Beauty with Joshua Landy on February 15, 2011.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Alexander Nehamas: Sun 1 Aries, Moon 22 Scorpio, Mercury 8 Aries, Venus 13 Aries, Mars 18 Cancer, Jupiter 25 Libra, Saturn 17 Cancer, Uranus 13 Gemini, Neptune 7 Libra, Pluto 9 Leo, Mercury Opposition Neptune, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Mercury Trine Pluto, Venus Square Saturn, Venus Sextile Uranus, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Alexander Nehamas: Living people, Presidents of the American Philosophical Association, Princeton University alumni, Swarthmore College alumni, Princeton University faculty, Greek emigrants to the United States, American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy, March 22 births, 1946 births, Members of the American Philosophical Society, Members of the Academy of Athens (modern), Philosophers of art