Ann Van Sevenant

Last updated

Ann Van Sevenant (born 10 June 1959) is a Belgian philosopher.

Contents

Biography

Van Sevenant was born in Torhout, Belgium. After her humanities, she studied Film and Photography at the Lucas School of Art in Brussels.

Ann van sevenant-1690790959.JPG

Inspired by the teaching of Jan Wüst, she decided to study philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she took the courses of Leopold Flam, Hubert Dethier and Annie Reniers.

After having obtained her master's degree in 1982, she lived in Rome, where she studied history of art and aesthetics at the University La Sapienza, and attended the courses of Mario Perniola and Emilio Garroni. While preparing her doctoral thesis, she took classes with Samuel IJsseling in Leuven and later in Paris the seminars of Jacques Derrida, who was an important source of inspiration. [1] She obtained her PhD in 1987, with a thesis entitled "Benjamin Fondane's Aesthetics. Inquiry on the autonomy of art."

Ann Van Sevenant was professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp from 1989 to 2004. [2] She lectured (2007/2008) at the Philosophicum de Kabgayi (Ruanda) and was invited at different universities (Urbino, Palermo, Rome, Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Paris, Albany, Haifa, Oxford).

She has published numerous articles in four languages and eighteen books on contemporary philosophy and aesthetics (see bibliography). Her work has been discussed in several international journals. [3] [4] [5] She is an independent researcher and gives conferences at home and abroad. [6]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antwerp Province</span> Province of Belgium

Antwerp Province, French: Province d'Anvers, German: Provinz Antwerpen), between 1815 and 1830 known as Central Brabant, is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the North Brabant province of the Netherlands to the north and the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp, which includes the Port of Antwerp, the second-largest seaport in Europe. It has an area of 2,876 km2 (1,110 sq mi), and with over 1.85 million inhabitants as of January 2019, is the country's most populous province. The province consists of three arrondissements: Antwerp, Mechelen and Turnhout. The eastern part of the province comprises the main part of the Campine region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">René Stockman</span>

Brother Dr. René P. E. Stockman, F.C. is the Superior General of the Congregation of the Brothers of Charity since 2000. He is a Belgian specialist in psychiatric caregiving.

Bantu Philosophy is a 1945 book written by Placide Tempels which argues that the Bantu peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa have an implicit philosophy, and attempts to describe its basic tenets.

The Institute of Philosophy is the faculty of philosophy at the KU Leuven in the Belgian city of Leuven. It was founded in 1968 when the Institut supérieur de Philosophie - Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte of the Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968) was split into a Dutch-speaking entity and a French-speaking entity. Its main buildings are located in the center of Leuven at the Kardinaal Mercier Square, named for the founder of the original institute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jacques Taminiaux</span> Belgian philosopher and professor (1928–2019)

Jacques Taminiaux was a Belgian philosopher and professor at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maurice De Wulf</span> Belgian philosopher

Maurice Marie Charles Joseph De Wulf, was a Belgian Thomist philosopher, professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, was one of the pioneers of the historiography of medieval philosophy. His book History of Medieval Philosophy appeared first in 1900 and was followed by many other editions and translations, one them being available today online.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jad Hatem</span> Lebanese poet and philosopher (born 1952)

Jad Hatem is a Lebanese poet and philosopher. He has been a distinguished philosophy, literature and religious sciences Professor at the Saint-Joseph University in Beirut since 1976. Hatem has been the Head of Department of Philosophy and the Director of Michel Henry's Study Center within that department. He's also Editor in Chief of Extasis (1980–1993), La Splendeur du Carmel and L'Orient des dieux, and serves on various other academic editorial boards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catherine Perret</span> French philosopher

Catherine Perret is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University. She obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy and is known for her work on Walter Benjamin, most notably by her book Walter Benjamin ou la critique en effet. Dr. Perret was the director of the Art of Exhibition Department at Paris X. She served as a program director at the Collège International de Philosophie from 1995 to 2001. She is a recipient of the prestigious title Chevalier des Palmes académiques. She collaborated with Bernard Stiegler in Ars Industrialis. Dr. Perret is currently responsible for the Centre de recherche sur l'art, philosophie, esthétique at Paris X.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christine Buci-Glucksmann</span> French philosopher

Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French philosopher and Professor Emeritus from University of Paris VIII specializing in the aesthetics of the Baroque and Japan, and computer art. Her best-known work in English is Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity.

Étienne Souriau was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics.

George François Cornelis Griss, usually cited as G. F. C. Griss, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who was occupied with Hegelian idealism and Brouwers intuitionism and stated a negationless mathematics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marcel Paquet</span> Belgian philosopher (1947–2014)

Marcel Paquet was a Belgian philosopher. The most important influences on his thought were Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Michel Foucault.

Robert Alphonse Paul (Bob) Van Straelen is a Belgian economist and organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor at the Antwerp Management School, known for his work on large empirical macroeconomic models.

Fernand Deschamps was a Belgian intellectual who participated in the great socio-economic and ethical debates in the first half of the twentieth century.

Joachim Leilich is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp, of German origin, who formerly held positions as a tutor and student-assistant at the university of Frankfurt. His main research topics are analytical philosophy, phenomenal consciousness, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and freedom of the will. He obtained his PhD under supervision of Karl-Otto Apel in Frankfurt.

George Morren or Georges Morren was a Belgian painter, sculptor, Impressionist and engraver.

Angèle Georgette Ghislaine Manteau, born in Dinant on 24 January 1911 and died in Aalst on 20 April 2008, was a Belgian publisher. According to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, which presented her with an award in 2003, she was "the main Flemish literary editor of the twentieth century" and her publishing house has "undoubtedly left its mark on the history of Flemish literature".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jan Broekman</span> Dutch university teacher

Jan Maurits Broekman is a Dutch-born philosopher, legal scientist, and social scientist. He worked three decades at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and continues to reside in Belgium. In 1971 he published a work on structuralism and in 1979 law and anthropology, asserting that the foundations of law are concealed in a specific image of a person.

Adriaan Pattin (1914–2005) was a Belgian historian of medieval philosophy. His 1966 edition of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de Causis, although intended to be "provisional", was for decades the best version available to scholars.

Frans Van Dijk was a Belgian architect. He was an important representative of eclecticism in architecture.

References

  1. Van Sevenant, Ann (November 12, 2011). "Of a Promising Atheism". Bijdragen. 72 (3): 265–282. doi:10.2143/BIJ.72.3.2141835 (inactive 1 August 2023) via Peeters.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2023 (link)
  2. "Info". WordPress.com.
  3. Power, Nicholas P. (January 6, 2006). "Review of Sexual Outercourse: Philosophy of Lovemaking" via Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Zarathustraism, MazdaismMagianism Research Papers - Academia.edu". www.academia.edu.
  5. "Item – David Gullentops et Ann Van Sevenant, Les Mondes de Jean Cocteau. Poétique et Esthétique".
  6. "Billetterie : Conférence : Zarathoustra, une philosophie avant la lettre par Ann Van Sevenant". www.weezevent.com.