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 Nicol├бs 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 Teor├нa Cr├нtica a una cr├нtica plural de la modernidad (Biblos: 2007); Entre cosmopolitismo y тАЬconciencia del mundoтАЭ (Siglo XXI: 2007); Humanismo en la ├йpoca de la globalizaci├│n: Desaf├нos y horizontes (Biblos: 2009) (with J├╢rn R├╝sen); Octavio Paz: Humanism and Critique (Transcript: 2009); Moderne als Weltbewusstsein. Ideen f├╝r eine humanistische Sozialtheorie in der globalen Moderne (Transcript: 2011); Shaping a Humane World. Civilizations, Axial Times, Modernities, Humanisms (Transcript: 2012) (with J├╢rn R├╝sen and Ernst Wolff); Multiple Experiences of Modernity (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2014).