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10Nietzsche: Writings From the Early Notebooks (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.Nietzsche's unpublished notes are extraordinary in both volume and interest, and indispensable to a full understanding of his lifelong engagement with the fundamental questions of philosophy. This volume includes an extensive selection of the notes he kept during the early years of his career. They address the philosophy of Schopenhauer, the nature of tragedy, the relationship of language to music, the importance of Classical Greek culture for modern life, and the value of the unfettered pursuit…Read more
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91Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of ArtPrinceton University Press. 2007.Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connection…Read more
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29Review: The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of Uncertainty (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4). 2000.
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100Episteme and Logos in Plato’s Later ThoughtArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 66 (1): 11-36. 1984.
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36Plato on imitation and poetry in republic 10In J. M. E. Moravcsik & Philip Temko (eds.), Plato on Beauty, Wisdom, and the Arts, Rowman & Littlefield. 1982.
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16Chapter NineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 275-316. 1986.
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Painting as an Art: Persons, Artists, Spectators and RolesIn J. Hopkins & A. Savile (eds.), Psychoanalysis Mind and Art, Blackwell. pp. 239--258. 1992.
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6Who Are the Philosophers of the Future? A Reading of Beyond Good and EvilIn Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen Marie Higgins (eds.), Reading Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. pp. 52--53. 1988.
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24The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its LimitsPhilosophical Review 90 (1): 122. 1981.
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25La théorie platonicienne de La Doxa (review)International Studies in Philosophy 16 (3): 91-93. 1984.
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12From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values, and BeliefsPhilosophical Review 82 (3): 395. 1973.
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91Richard Shusterman on pleasure and aesthetic experienceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (1): 49-51. 1998.
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31The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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62Art, Interpretation, and the Rest of LifeProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2). 2004.
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198?Only in the contemplation of beauty is human life worth living? Plato, symposium 211dEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.
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134Virtues of Authenticity, Essays on Plato and Socrates (review)Philosophical Inquiry 32 (1-2): 127-130. 2010.The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations. In approach, the collection displays Nehamas's characteristic combination of analytical rigor and sensitivity to the literary form and dramatic effec…Read more
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62Nietzsche as self-made manPhilosophy and Literature 20 (2): 487-491. 1996.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Nietzsche as Self-Made ManAlexander NehamasComposing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche’s Psychology, by Graham Parkes; xiv & 481 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, $37.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.I cannot resist beginning this essay on Graham Parkes’s study of Nietzsche’s psychology with the first-person pronoun. Parkes provides an erudite and suggestive presentation of Nietzsche’s views on the soul, according to which what we c…Read more
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10IntroductionIn David J. Furley & Alexander Nehamas (eds.), Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays, Princeton University Press. 2015.
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215Self-Predication and Plato's Theory of FormsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 16 (2). 1979.This paper offers an interpretation of self-Predication (the idea that justice is just) in plato, Given that self-Predication is accepted as obvious both by plato and by his audience, Which entails that "all" self-Predications are clearly, Though not trivially, True. More strongly, It is suggested that "only" self-Predications can be accepted as clearly true by plato. This is to deny that plato had at his disposal an articulated notion of predication, And his middle theory of forms, Primarily th…Read more
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187Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato's Demarcation of Philosophy from SophistryHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1). 1990.
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