Kathleen M. Higgins

The University of Texas at
Austin
Ph.D., Yale University

Kathleen Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at The
University of Texas at Austin where she has been
teaching for over 20 years. She earned her B.A. in music
from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and
completed her graduate work in philosophy at Yale
University, receiving her M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D.

Professor Higgins has taught at the University of
California, Riverside, and she is a regular visiting
professor at the University of Auckland. Her academic
honors include appointments as Resident Scholar at the
Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference
Center (1993) and Visiting Fellow of the Australian
National University Philosophy Department and the
Canberra School of Music (1997). She also received an
Alumni Achievement Award from the Conservatory of Music
at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (1999).

A prolific writer and recognized Nietzsche scholar,
her books include The Music of Our Lives
(Temple University Press) and Nietzsche’s
Zarathustra (Temple University Press), which was
named one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1988-1989
by Choice. She has co-edited numerous books
with her husband, Professor Robert Solomon, including
Reading Nietzsche, A Short History of
Philosophy, and the Routledge History of
Philosophy, Volume IV: The Age of German Idealism.

Courses by this
professor:
Great
Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd
Edition >
Will
to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich
Nietzsche >
Will
to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche & No
Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
(Set) >

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