The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy (9th Edition) – eBook

Author(s)

Kathleen M. Higgins

Dr. Kathleen Higgins is currently a Professor at Yale. Her main areas of research are philosophy of the emotions, continental philosophy, and aesthetics, particularly musical aesthetics. She has published a number of books: The Music of Our Lives; A Short History of Philosophy (with Robert C. Solomon, Oxford); Nietzsche's “Zarathustra”; Comic Relief: Nietzsche's “Gay Science” (Oxford University Press); A Passion for Wisdom (with Robert C. Solomon); What Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert C. Solomon); and The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (University of Chicago Press), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize for 2012. She has co-edited or edited several other books on such topics as German Idealism, ethics, erotic love, non-Western philosophy, Nietzsche, aesthetics, and the philosophy of Robert C. Solomon. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music, and a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Dr. Higgins is currently President of the American Society for Aesthetics. She has been a frequent visitor to the Philosophy Department of the University of Auckland.

Robert C. Solomon