Tanner Lectures Alexander Nehamas will deliver the 2000-2001 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on April 9 and 10 at the Whitney Humanities Center.
All events are free and open to the public.
Professor Nehamas is a philosopher and classical scholar whose work has addressed a wide range of ethical issues relevant to antiquity and to modern culture. He is currently the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Nehamas examines the impact of Nietzsche's perspectivism on textual interpretation and aesthetics. With Paul Woodruff, he has translated Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus .