Dr. Oliver Kozlarek teaches political and social philosophy as well as social theory at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolรกs de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany, at the New School for Social Research, and at Stanford University, as well as an Edmundo O'Gorman Fellow 2015 at the Centre for Mexican Studies, Columbia University.
Recently edited and authored books include: De la Teorรญa Crรญtica a una crรญtica plural de la modernidad (Biblos: 2007); Entre cosmopolitismo y โconciencia del mundoโ (Siglo XXI: 2007); Humanismo en la รฉpoca de la globalizaciรณn: Desafรญos y horizontes (Biblos: 2009) (with Jรถrn Rรผsen); Octavio Paz: Humanism and Critique (Transcript: 2009); Moderne als Weltbewusstsein. Ideen fรผr eine humanistische Sozialtheorie in der globalen Moderne (Transcript: 2011); Shaping a Humane World. Civilizations, Axial Times, Modernities, Humanisms (Transcript: 2012) (with Jรถrn Rรผsen and Ernst Wolff); Multiple Experiences of Modernity (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2014).