Alexander Nehamas

Greek-American philosopher at Princeton who wrote Nietzsche: Life as Literature — arguing that Nietzsche's philosophy is best understood as the project of creating oneself as a literary character — and whose work on Plato, aesthetics, and the beauty of friendship has made him one of the most elegant philosophical writers in the analytic tradition.

Argued that Nietzsche's perspectivism and his call for self-creation should be understood aesthetically rather than morally — the Übermensch is not a moral ideal but an aesthetic one, a person who has made their life into a coherent and beautiful story — making Nietzsche the philosopher of self-creation rather than the philosopher of power.