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 NicolÃĄs 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 TeorÃa CrÃtica a una crÃtica plural de la modernidad (Biblos: 2007); Entre cosmopolitismo y âconciencia del mundoâ (Siglo XXI: 2007); Humanismo en la ÃĐpoca de la globalizaciÃģn: DesafÃos y horizontes (Biblos: 2009) (with JÃķrn RÞsen); Octavio Paz: Humanism and Critique (Transcript: 2009); Moderne als Weltbewusstsein. Ideen fÞr eine humanistische Sozialtheorie in der globalen Moderne (Transcript: 2011); Shaping a Humane World. Civilizations, Axial Times, Modernities, Humanisms (Transcript: 2012) (with JÃķrn RÞsen and Ernst Wolff); Multiple Experiences of Modernity (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2014).