Office: WAG 203
Office Hours: W 2:00-4:00
Phone: 471-5564
kmhiggins@mail.utexas.edu
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Education: BA Missouri (Kansas City), MA, MPhil, PhD Yale

Research interests:
Her main areas of research are continental philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of music. ; She has written Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science (Oxford, 2000), What Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert Solomon, 2000), A Passion for Wisdom (Oxford, 1997), A Short History of Philosophy (with Robert Solomon, Oxford, 1996), The Music of Our Lives (1991), and Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1987), which Choice named an outstanding academic book of 1988-1989. She has edited or co-edited several others on such topics as German Idealism, aesthetics, ethics, erotic love, and non-Western philosophy. She has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music. She is an annual Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland.

Courses taught:
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, aesthetics, philosophy of music, Non-Western philosophy

Field(s) of Study: 19th-Century German Philosophy