Most academics are specialists. So, for example, they provide interpretations of Baudelaire’s poems, offer accounts of the history of Venice, or reconstruct Kant’s philosophy. Their work is valuable ...

Academic philosophy’s neglect of beauty and the passions it engenders troubles Alexander Nehamas, a distinguished professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Princeton. In this new book he ...

Sex is an overworked topic in the opinion page of The Daily Princetonian, and I am loath to contribute to the mania. But I think it is a worthwhile exercise to compare the Anscombe Society's recent ...

University professors Peter Brown and Alexander Nehamas were among the first five recipients of the Andrew Mellon Foundation's new Distinguished Achievement Awards for scholars in the humanities. The ...

Although I’m hardly a fashionista, the exercise with my clothing made me feel solid, for reasons Alexander Nehamas helps explain in On Friendship, a response to a famous essay by Montaigne. Nehamas, ...

Ph.D., Princeton,1971. Joined the faculty in 1990. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. His interests include Greek philosophy, philosophy of art, European philosophy ...