Angelika Krebs (born August 12, 1961, in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

) is a German

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Education and career

Angelika Krebs studied

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German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy a ...

and

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

in Freiburg, Oxford, Konstanz and Berkeley. She did her PhD with

Friedrich Kambartel Friedrich Kambartel (17 February 1935 – 25 April 2022), was a German philosopher. Biography Kambartel was born on 17 February 1935 in Münster, Germany. He studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Münster, where he rec ...

Bernard Williams Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include ''Problems of the Self'' (1973), ''Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy'' (1985), ''Shame and Necessity'' ...

and

Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wor ...

in Frankfurt in 1993. Her dissertation

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on environmental ethics won the Wolfgang Stegmüller award of the German Society for Analytical Philosophy. From 1993 to 2001 she was an assistant professor in Frankfurt, writing her habilitation thesis on work, justice and love. In 2001, she was appointed to the chair for practical philosophy at the

University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis'', German: ''Universität Basel'') is a university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universit ...

. She was Rockefeller visiting fellow at the Center for Human Values in Princeton and Rachel Carson fellow at LMU in Munich. She served as a member of the advisory board of both the German and the Swiss Society for Philosophy. Since 2013 she has been a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2013 she co-founded the European Society for the Philosophical Study of Emotions together with

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (אהרון בן-זאב; born 30 July 1949) is an Israeli philosopher. He was President of the University of Haifa from 2004 to 2012. Biography Aaron Ben-Ze'ev and his two older brothers Yehuda and Avinoam were born to Israel an ...

(Haifa) and Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens).

Work

Her main research areas are

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

political philosophy Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

, theories of emotion and aesthetics. In environmental ethics, she argues for the intrinsic value of beautiful nature and of nature as "Heimat" ome In political philosophy, she propagates a humanistic alternative to standard egalitarian approaches to justice and shows why family work should be fully recognized as economic work. In emotion theory she develops a dialogical model of romantic love following Martin Buber and

Max Scheler Max Ferdinand Scheler (; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent German philosophers,Davis, Zachar ...

. In 2017 she edited together with Aaron Ben-Ze'ev from the University of Haifa a four-volume collection on the philosophy of the emotions. Her most recent work is in aesthetics and explores why the beauty of landscape matters.

Selected bibliography

* (Ed.) Naturethik. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1997 * Ethics of Nature. A Map. With a Preface by Bernard Williams. Berlin: de Gruyter 1999 * (Ed.) Gleichheit oder Gerechtigkeit. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2000 * Arbeit und Liebe. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2002 * Zwischen Ich und Du. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2015 * (Ed.) Philosophy of Emotion (together with A. Ben-Ze’ev). Four Volumes: The Nature of Emotions, II. Emotions and the Good Life, III. Morality, Aesthetics, and the Emotions, IV. Specific Emotions. London: Routledge 2017 * (Ed.) The Meaning of Moods (together with A. Ben-Ze’ev). Guest-publication of an issue of the journal Philosophia. Berlin: Springer 2017 * Das Weltbild der Igel. Naturethik einmal anders (together with Stephanie Schuster, Alexander Fischer und Jan Müller). Basel: Schwabe, 2021.

References

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