Author and Princeton University professor Alexander Nehamas will speak as part of Furman University\u2019s Tocqueville Series Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101 on campus.<\/p>\n
His CLP talk, \u201cMetaphors in Life: \u2018I Love You for Yourself\u2019,\u2019\u201d is free and open to the public. The lecture is the first of the 2018 Tocqueville Series, \u201cLove, Friendship and Politics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nehamas is the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His interests include Greek philosophy, philosophy of art, European philosophy and literary theory.<\/p>\n
His books include Nietzsche: Life as Literature<\/em>, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault<\/em>, Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates<\/em>, On Friendship<\/em> and Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art<\/em>. He has also translated Plato\u2019s Symposium<\/em> and Phaedrus<\/em> into English.<\/p>\n At Princeton, he has chaired the Council of the Humanities, the Program in Hellenic Studies, and he was the Founding Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.<\/p>\n Nehamas was born in Athens, Greece, graduated from Athens College, and attended Swarthmore College and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D.<\/p>\n Upcoming Tocqueville Program lectures include:<\/p>\n Wednesday, Feb. 21<\/strong>\u2013 Diana Schaub, Loyola University Maryland, \u201cFriendship, Race, and Political Justice,\u201d 5 p.m., Johns Hall 101<\/p>\n Wednesday, April 4<\/strong>\u2013William Deresiewicz, best-selling author, \u201cCollege and the Inner Life,\u201d 5 p.m., Watkins Room, Trone Student Center<\/p>\n