Ep. 20: Alexander Nehamas on ““Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living” (2005 Katz Distinguished Lecture)

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Going Public: Reimagining the PhD

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Welcome to Going Public, a podcast dedicated to exploring public scholarship and publicly-engaged teaching in the humanities. Since 2015, two successive Andrew W. Mellon funded grant initiatives under the name "Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration" have supported public scholars at the University of Washington. The episodes of Going Public consist of interviews with Mellon-supported public scholars after they have launched their projects or taught their public-facing seminars. Explore the seminars and projects at: www.simpsoncenter.org/goingpublic

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Ep. 20: Alexander Nehamas on ““Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living” (2005 Katz Distinguished Lecture)

Going Public: Reimagining the PhD

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Ep. 20: Alexander Nehamas on ““Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living” (2005 Katz Distinguished Lecture)

This episode is part of a special series for 2023-2024 featuring some of our popular talks from our annual Katz Distinguished Lecture series. This month’s episode features Alexander Nehamas’s talk from 2005 titled “Only in the Contemplation of Beauty Is Human Life Worth Living.”

Alexander Nehamas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is a champion of aesthetic values and is committed to the view that the arts and humanities are an indispensable part of human life for all people. His books, including Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art published in 2007, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (1999), and Nietzsche: Life as Literature (1985), have been translated into nine languages. He is also a translator (into English) of Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus and he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The 2023-2024 season of Going Public features select Katz Distinguished Lectures from our archive. Learn more about the lecture series and peruse the archive:

https://simpsoncenter.org/katz-lectures.