Kathleen M Higgins
Professor — PhD, Yale

Contact
- E-mail: kmhiggins@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-5564
- Office: WAG 203
- Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 a.m., for the Fall Semester of 2017
- Campus Mail Code: C3500
Interests
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Music, Non-Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Emotion
Biography
Kathleen Higgins's main areas of research are continental philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, and aesthetics, particularly musical aesthetics. She has published a number of books: Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” (Temple, 1987; 2nd ed. 2010; named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1988-1989 by Choice); The Music of Our Lives (Temple, 1991; rev. ed. 2011); A Short History of Philosophy (with Robert C. Solomon, Oxford, 1996); A Passion for Wisdom (with Robert C. Solomon, Oxford, 1997); Comic Relief: Nietzsche's “Gay Science” (Oxford University Press, 2000); What Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert C. Solomon, Schocken Books, 2000); and The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize for 2012. She has edited or co-edited several other books on such topics as Nietzsche, German Idealism, aesthetics, ethics, erotic love, non-Western philosophy, 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 (2013), Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music (1997), and Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center (1993). She has also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (1999). She has been a frequent visitor to the Philosophy Department of the University of Auckland. She is currently President of the American Society for Aesthetics.
Courses
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
41180-41205 • Spring 2022
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 302
VP
PHL 366K • Existentialism
41395-41420 • Spring 2022
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WAG 302
E
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42335-42360 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 101
VP
PHL 385 • Aesthetics
42565 • Fall 2021
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 316A
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts-Wb
41985 • Spring 2021
Meets F 10:00AM-11:00AM
Internet; Synchronous
VP
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts-Wb
41990-42014 • Spring 2021
Internet; Synchronous
VP
PHL 366K • Existentialism-Wb
42210-42238 • Spring 2021
Internet; Synchronous
E
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts-Wb
40695-40720 • Fall 2020
Internet; Synchronous
VP
PHL 387 • Nietzsche's Phil/Style-Wb
40909 • Fall 2020
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM
Internet; Synchronous
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
41255-41289 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM
VP
PHL 366K • Existentialism
41405-41415 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WAG 302
E
PHL 315L • Philosophy And Literature
41755-41765 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 302
PHL 366K • Existentialism
41965-41975 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WAG 201
E
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42075-42100 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM JGB 2.216
VP
PHL 385 • Aesthetics
42270 • Fall 2018
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 310
PHL 387 • Nietzsche's Phil/Style
42620 • Fall 2017
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM WAG 310
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42480-42505 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 101
VP
PHL 366K • Existentialism
42625-42650 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WAG 101
E
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42385-42425 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM GAR 0.102
VP
PHL 385 • Emotion And The Arts
42575 • Fall 2016
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 310
PHL 366K • Existentialism
41774-41779 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WEL 2.246
E
PHL 375M • Philosophy And Feminism
41780 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 308
IIWr
(also listed as WGS 345)
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
41500-41540 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM MEZ 1.306
VP
PHL 387 • Nietzsche On Ethics/Morality
41760 • Fall 2015
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 312
PHL 366K • Existentialism
42050-42090 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM MEZ 1.306
E
PHL 375M • Chinese Philosophy
42105 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 22
IIWr
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42940-42965 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM CAL 100
VP
PHL 385 • Emotion And The Arts
43160 • Fall 2014
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 312
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
43270-43280 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 302
PHL 366K • Existentialism
43435-43460 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CAL 100
E
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
43015-43017 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 100
VP
PHL 381 • Nietzsche
43190 • Fall 2013
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 312
PHL 366K • Existentialism
42655-42695 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 100
E
PHL 385 • Emotion And The Arts
42735 • Fall 2012
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 210
PHL 366K • Existentialism
42625-42665 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WEL 2.246
E
PHL 381 • Nietzsche On Ethics & Morality
42695 • Spring 2012
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 312
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42425-42450 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM CAL 100
VP
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
42455-42465 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 302
E
PHL 325L • Business, Ethics, And Publ Pol
43020 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 214
E
PHL 366K • Existentialism
43125-43165 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WEL 2.246
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42418-42424 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM CAL 100
VP
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
42425-42435 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 420
E
PHL 366K • Existentialism
43250-43290 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WEL 1.316
PHL 375M • Chinese Philosophy-W
43295 • Spring 2010
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM JES A205A
C2
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
43330-43340 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM RAS 213
VP
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
43345-43355 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM UTC 3.124
E
PHL 366K • Existentialism
42465-42505 • Spring 2009
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WEL 1.316
PHL 381 • Nietzsche On Ethics & Morality
42520 • Spring 2009
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 210
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
43435-43445 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM GAR 1.126
PHL 375M • Philosophy And Feminism-W
43510 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 112
C2
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
43205-43215 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM ART 1.110
PHL 366K • Existentialism
43355-43395 • Spring 2008
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM PAI 3.02
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
44245-44260 • Fall 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 420
PHL 301 • Introduction To Philosophy
42470 • Spring 2007
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BEL 328
PHL 375M • Chinese Philosophy-W
43060 • Spring 2007
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM PAR 303
C2
PHL 375M • Philosophy And Feminism-W
44185 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM SZB 278
C2
PHL 381 • Nietzsche, Religion, & Values
44230 • Fall 2006
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 307
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
42105-42140 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM CAL 100
VP
PHL 375M • Chinese Philosophy-W
40802 • Spring 2005
Meets T 3:00PM-5:00PM GAR 313
C2
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
39160 • Spring 2004
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WAG 302
PHL 375M • Nietzsche-W
39365 • Spring 2004
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CBA 4.338
C2
PHL 301 • Introduction To Philosophy
39425 • Fall 2003
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 112
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
39170-39185 • Spring 2003
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 302
PHL 375M • Chinese Philosophy-W
39515 • Spring 2003
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM CBA 4.340
C2
PHL 301 • Introduction To Philosophy
39000-39015 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 302
PHL 317K • Intro To Philos Of The Arts
39985-40000 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM WAG 302
VP
HMN 379 • Conference Course
36070 • Spring 2002
PHL 301 • Introduction To Philosophy
38425-38440 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 3:30PM-4:30PM BUR 108
PHL 334K • Nietzsche
39330-39345 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 302
PHL 318 • Introduction To Ethics
40250-40265 • Fall 2001
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 302
PHL 381 • Nietzsche
40470 • Fall 2001
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM WAG 210
PHL 302 • World Philosophy
38385-38400 • Spring 2001
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:00PM WAG 302
(also listed as ANS 301M)
PHL 302 • World Philosophy
37820-37835 • Spring 2000
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 302
PHL 381 • Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
38670 • Spring 2000
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM WAG 210
Books
Original Books
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
The Music of Our Lives
A Short History of Philosophy
Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M Higgins
A Short History of Philosophy
February 1996
Oxford University Press
A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy
Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M Higgins
A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy
January 1999
Oxford University Press
Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science
What Nietzsche Really Said
The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?
Edited Books
Reading Nietzsche, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York, Oxford University Press, 1988).
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991).
From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (Lanham, Maryland: Roman and Littlefield, 1993); second edition, 2003; Chinese translation, 2004.
Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. VI: The Age of German Idealism,co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1993).
A Companion to Aesthetics, co-edited with Stephen Davies, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David Cooper, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009).
Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman, Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 1 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012).
New Editions
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Clancy Martin, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005).
Textbooks
Thirteen Questions In Ethics, co-edited with Lee Bowie and Meredith Michaels (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992; Thirteen Questions in Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2nd edition (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1998).
World Philosophy: A Text with Readings, co-edited with Robert C. Solomon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995).
Aesthetics in Perspective (edited) (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1996).
The Big Questions, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon, 8th ed. (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth, 2010); 9th ed., 2014.
Introducing Philosophy, co-authored with Robert C. Solomon and Clancy Martin, 10th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); 11th edition forthcoming, 2015.
Articles
“Festivals of Recognition: Nietzsche’s Idealized Communities,” in Nietzsche and Community, ed. Julian Young (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 77-92.
“Post-Truth Pluralism: The Unlikely Political Wisdom of Friedrich Nietzsche,” Breakthrough Journal 3 (Winter 2013): 101-106.
“Moral Equivalents,” in Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, ed. Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014). [forthcoming]
“La lecture de l’oracle (Oracular Reading),” in “L’art de bien lire”, Nietzsche et la philologie, ed. Jean-François Balaudé and Patrick Wotling (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2012), pp. 241-252. (French only)
“Loyalty from a Confucian Perspective,” in Loyalty, ed. Sanford Levinson and Paul Woodruff, Nomos LIV (New York: New York University Press, 2012), pp. 22-38.
“Bob on Meaning in Life and Death,” in Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), 259-267.
“Introduction,” in Passion, Death, and Spirituality: The Philosophy of Robert C. Solomon, co-edited with David Sherman (Dordrecht: Springer, 2012), ix-xv.
“Introduction: Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions” in Special Issue on Robert C. Solomon and the Spiritual Passions, Guest Editor: Kathleen M. Higgins, Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology, and Ethics, 50 (June 2011): 239-245.
“Biology and Culture in Musical Emotions,” Emotion Review, Special Issue on Social-Constructionist Approaches to Emotion, ed. James Averill, 4:3 (2012): 273-282.
“Visual Music and Synaesthesia,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Andrew Kania and Theodore Gracyk (New York: Routledge, 2010), 480-491.
“Love and Death,” in On Emotions: Philosophical Essays, ed. John Deigh (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 159-178.
“Refined Emotions in Aesthetic Experience: A Cross-Cultural Comparison,” in Aesthetic Experience, ed. Richard Shusterman and Adele Tomlin, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2008), 106-126.
“Leadership through Music,” in Leadership at the Crossroads, ed. Joanne B. Ciulla, in 3 vols., Vol. 3: Leadership and the Humanities (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2008), 151-171.
“Suffering in Nietzsche’s Philosophy,” in Reading Nietzsche at the Margins, ed. Steven V. Hicks and Alan Rosenberg (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008), 59-72.
“The Cognitive and Appreciative Import of Musical Universals,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 60/238 (December 2006): 487-503.
“Nietzsche, Empty Names, and Individuality,” International Studies in Philosophy 38/3 (2006): 117-130.
“An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special Issue: Global Theories of the Arts and the Aesthetic 65 (2007): 43-54.
“Musical Education for Peace,” in Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation among Cultures, ed. Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008), 389-404.
“Negative Virtues: Zhuangzi’s Wuwei,” Virtue Ethics: Old and New, ed. Stephen Gardiner (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 125-141.
“Rebaptizing Our Evil: Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Values,” in The Companion to Nietzsche, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (London: Blackwell, 2005), 404-418.
“Nietzsche and the Mystery of the Ass,” in A Nietzschean Bestiary: Animality Beyond Docile and Brutal, ed. Ralph R. Acampora and Christa Davis Acampora (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), 100-118.
“Music or the Mistaken Life,” International Studies in Philosophy 35:3 (2003): 117-130.
"Musical Synesthesia :Why We Feel Like Dancing" in Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics, ed. Grazia Marchianò and Raffaele Milani (Turin: Trauben/ Casalini Libri, 2001), 319-337.
"Double-Consciousness and Second Sight," in Critical Affinities: Reflections on the Convergence of Nietzsche and African-American Thought, ed. Todd Franklin and Jacqueline Scott (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006), 51-73.
"Chinese Music and the Family," in An Introduction to Chinese Culture Through the Family, ed. Howard Giskin and Bettye Walsh (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 107-122.
"Television, Realism, and the Distortion of Time," in Television: Aesthetic Reflections, ed. Ruth Lorand (New York: Peter Lang, 2002), 107-126.
“Danto: On the Use and Disadvantage of Hegel for Art,” co-authored with Robert C. Solomon, in The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto, ed. Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin Hahn, The Library of Living Philosophers Series, Vol.33 (Chicago: Open Court, 2013), pp. 645-663.
“Beyond Irony: Nietzsche in the Twenty-First Century,” International Studies in Philosophy XXXIII:3 (Fall 2001): 37-51.
“Beauty and Its Kitsch Competitors,” in Beauty Matters, ed. Peg Zeglin Brand (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 87-111; in abridged form as “Beauty, Kitsch, and Glamour,” in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 4th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2000), 777-783.
"Mass Appeal," in Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 197-205.
"Death and the Skeleton," in Death and Philosophy, ed. J. E. Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (London: Routledge, 1998), 39-49; in abridged form in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 4th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2000), 501-504.
"Music and the Ten Thousand Things: Musical Metaphysics in China," Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on Transcultural Aesthetics, ed. Eugenio Benitez (on disk, ISBN 0-646-28504-1, 1997), 81-95.
"Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temporality and Temperament," in Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator, ed. Christopher Janaway (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 151-177.
"Waves of Uncountable Laughter," in Nietzsche 's Futures, ed. John Lippitt (London: Macmillan, 1997), 82-98.
"The Whip Recalled," Journal of Nietzsche Studies 12 (Autumn 1996):1-18.
"Musical Idiosyncrasy and Perspectival Listening," in Music and Meaning, ed. Jenefer Robinson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), 83-102.
"Gender in ‘The Gay Science,’" Philosophy and Literature 19/2 (October 1995): 227-247; also in Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), pp. 130-151.
"Bad Faith and Kitsch as Models for Self-Deception," in Self and Deception: A Conversation in Comparative Philosophy, ed. Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), pp. 123-141.
"Nietzsche's Nursery Rhymes," Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 21/3 (Fall 1995): 397-417.
"Atomism, Art and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn" (with Robert C. Solomon), in Danto and His Critics, ed. Mark Rollins (London: Basil Blackwell, 1993), pp. 107-126. Japanese translation in Bigaku Kenkyu (publication of Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University) 1 (2001): 69-94.
"The Good, the True, and the Beautiful," in Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling, ed. David Karnos and Robert Shoemaker (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 223-225.
“‘Zarathustra’ Is a Comic Book," Philosophy and Literature, 16/1 (April 1992): 1-14.
“Arthur Schopenhauer," in Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. VI: The Age of German Idealism, ed. Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen Higgins (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 330-362.
“Apollo, Music, and Cross-Cultural Rationality," Philosophy East and West 42/4 (October 1992): 623-641.
“The Music of Our Lives," in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 2nd ed. (Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace, 1992), pp. 671-675; 3rd ed. (Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace, 1995), pp. 734-738; Aesthetics, ed. Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 141-148.
“‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ -- Nietzsche's Gift," in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's “Genealogy of Morals,” ed. Richard Schacht (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 49-62.
"Sweet Kitsch," in The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, ed. Philip Alperson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 568-581.
“‘Zarathustra’ IV and Apuleius: Who Is Zarathustra's Ass?", International Studies in Philosophy, XX/3, (1988): 29-53; also in Nietzsche: Critical Assessments, ed. Daniel W. Conway with Peter S. Groff, Vol. I: Incipit Zarathustra/Incipit Tragoedia: Art, Music, Representation, and Style (New York: Routledge, 1998), 166-189.
"Nietzsche and Postmodern Subjectivity," in Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra, ed. Clayton Koelb (Albany: State University of New York Press, l990), pp. 189-215.
"Music, Muzak Everywhere: Is Anybody Really Listening?" in Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, edited by Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert C. Solomon, 1st ed., (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), 660-670.
"Reading ‘Zarathustra,’" in Reading Nietzsche, ed. Higgins and Solomon (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 132-151.
"Nietzsche's View of Philosophical Style," International Studies in Philosophy XVIII/2 (Summer 1986): 67-81.
"Nietzsche on Music," Journal of the History of Ideas, XLVII/4 (October-December 1986): 663-672; also in Essays on the History of Aesthetics, ed. Peter Kivy (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1992), 367-376.
"The Night Song's Answer," International Studies in Philosophy XVII/2 (Summer 1985): 33-50.
"Music in Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy," in International Philosophical Quarterly, XX/4 (December 1980): 432-451.
Videos
World Philosophy
"World Philosophy," lecture series, The Teaching Company, 2001.
The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche," lecture series (with Robert C. Solomon), The Teaching Company, 1999.
Among shapers of contemporary thought—including Darwin, Marx, and Freud—Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps the most mysterious and least understood. His aphorisms are widely quoted, but as both man and thinker he remains an enigmatic figure, "philosophizing with a hammer" and hurling unsettling challenges to some of our most cherished beliefs.
The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
Guest Lectures on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche for Darren Staloff and Michael Sugrue, “The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition” lecture series, The Teaching Company, 1999.
Awards & Honors
American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize (for The Music between Us), 2013.
Rappaport-King Scholar Mentor Award, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997, 2011
Alumni Achievement Award, Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1999
Resident Scholar, The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center, October 1993
Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of l988-89 by Choice
University Research Institute Summer Research Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985