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Is former professor of aesthetics at the Institute of Art History of the University of Strasbourg. She is a philosopher, musicologist, and journalist. Her research focuses on aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, including issues centered on painting and the fine arts as well as music and poetry. Her analyses can be considered as an hermeneutics of the work of art, as it appears in her Introduction to Aesthetics, as well as the numerous articles she published in musicological collections (e.g., by M. Grabocz in France and B. Brumana in Italy). As the biographer of Emmanuel Levinas (Emmanuel Levinas, Flammarion, 1994, 2000, 2005), she also published and edited writings about moral philosophy. She is the author of several intellectual biographies, notably of Rubens, Emmanuel Levinas, Goethe, Paul Claudel, and Pierre Bourdieu, for which she was awarded by 2 prizes: Goethe ou la fatalité poétique (prix de l’Académie d’Alsace) and Aby Warburg ou la tentation du regard (Prix international Pierre Daix d’histoire de l’art). She translated several books from German and English (Wittgenstein’s Die philosophische Grammatik and Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik as well as works B. Williams and R. Westfall). She is editor of the journal CITES published by the Presses Universitaires de France (coordination: special issues on Wittgenstein, Arendt, Jankelevitch, Levi-Strauss, and Beauvoir).