Alexander Nehamas (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is a Greek-born American philosopher.
He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory.
He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967 and completed his doctorate (titled Predication and the Theory of Forms in the Phaedo) under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton University in 1971.
[4] His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy of Socrates, but he gained a wider audience with his 1985 book Nietzsche: Life as Literature (Harvard University Press), in which he argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text.
"[6] More recently, he has become well known for his view that philosophy should provide a form of life, as well as for his endorsement of the artistic value of television.