Victor J. Krebs was born in Lima, Perú In 1957. He moved to the States in 1977 to begin his undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University. In 1979 he spent a year abroad in Leeds, England, where he was tutored by Peter Geach and R.F. Holland. He went to graduate school at the University of Notre Dame, where, after spending two years in Münster working on a translation project of Kant´s work into Spanish under the sponsorship of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy. After graduating from Notre Dame, he moved to Venezuela as a visiting professor of philosophy at the Universidad Simón Bolivar, and spent the next ten years teaching graduates and undergraduates, directing the Program Graduate Studies in Philosophy and editing the Revista Venezolana de Filosofia. He returned to Perú in 2004, where he is professor of the Department of Humanities at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He teaches philosophy and is pursuing training in psychoanalysis. He is author of Del alma y el arte (1998), La recuperación del sentido (2008) and El impulso pigmaliónico: ensayos en torno a un complejo filosófico (forthcoming). He is currently writing a book on film and philosophy provisionally entitled: Beyond the Pygmalionic Impulse.