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Ann Van Sevenant was born in Torhout (Belgium) on June 10 1959. She is a Belgian philosopher.

Biography
Ann Van Sevenant studied philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels, VUB), where she obtained her PhD in 1987. The title of her doctoral thesis was “Benjamin Fondane's Aesthetics. Inquiry on the autonomy of art.” After her humanities, she studied Film and Photography at the Lucas School of Art in Brussels. Inspired by the teaching of Jan Wüst, she decided to study philosophy at the University of Brussels (VUB), where she took the courses of Leopold Flam, Hubert Dethier and Annie Reniers.

After having obtained her Master 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 the seminars of Jacques Derrida in Paris.

Ann Van Sevenant was professor of philosophy at the University College of Antwerp from 1989 to 2004. 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 published in numerous articles in four languages and eighteen books on contemporary philosophy and aesthetics (see bibliography). She is an independent researcher and gives conferences at home and abroad.

Notes and references

 * (nl) This article was first published in Dutch and in French, see Wikipédia « Ann Van Sevenant » (voir la liste des auteurs).