• Judith Norman is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio. Her research focuses on 19th century German philosophy; she has translated works by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and has written on both of these figures as well as Schelling, Marx, and German romanticism. In addition to her classes at Trinity, she is interested in philosophy in the community, and has started a philosophy for children program in local public schools, as well as participating in the Philosophy and Literature Circle in local prisons. She is politically active in San Antonio, with Jewish Voice for Peace, as well as with social and economic justice groups, and education equity issues.

    • Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • B.A. from Carleton College  
    • Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman, ed., A Critical Guide to the ‘World as Will and Representation’ (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
    • Judith Norman and Elizabeth Millán, ed., A Companion to German Romantic Philosophy (Brill, 2018) Translation of The World as Will and Representation, vol. 1 and 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer, co-edited and co-translated with Alistair Welchman (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 2010).
    • Translation of The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, The Case of Wagner, and Nietzsche Contra Wagner, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge University Press, 2005). [Finalist in the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book, 2005.]
    • Translation of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
    • Nineteenth Century German Philosophy
    • Twentieth Century European Philosophy
    • Philosophy for Children
    • Existentialism
    • Philosophy of the Americas
    • Philosophy for Children
    • Early Modern European Philosophy
    • Nietzsche and German Philosophy
    • German Idealism
    • Marx and Marxism

    I am chair of the San Antonio chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. In addition, I am heavily involved with social and economic justice issues both locally and nationally. I am active in public school issues both politically and as a teacher; I have taught philosophy, chess, and social justice curricula in the public schools.