Kathleen Higgins

Kathleen Marie Higgins (born 1954) 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. She has also held appointments as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center (1993) and as a 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–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 co-edited numerous books with her late husband, Professor Robert C. Solomon, including "Reading Nietzsche", "A Short History of Philosophy", and the "Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume VI: The Age of German Idealism".