Kathleen Higgins
Kathleen Marie Higgins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) |
| Spouse | Robert C. Solomon |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Philosophical Significance of Nietzsche's Use of Fiction in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karsten Harries |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Continental |
| Institutions | University of Texas, Austin |
| Main interests | Nietzsche, aesthetics, philosophy of music |
Kathleen Marie Higgins (born 1954) is an American professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin where she has been teaching for over thirty years. She specializes in aesthetics, philosophy of music, nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion.