Curriculum Vitae
Professional
Address:
Pontifical Catholic University (PUCRS)
Dept of Philosophy - C. Postal 1429
Porto Alegre, RS 90619-900 Brazil
Ph.D. in Philosophy: 1994 Dissertation: “On the Genealogy of Modernity:
Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault” SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Committe: David Allison, Kenneth Baynes (Advisor),
Mary Rawlinson, Gene Lebovics M.A. in Philosophy: 1990 Advisor: Prof. Dr. John D. Caputo PhD Candidate (ABD): 1990 Advisors: Prof. Dr. R.D. Knudsen, Prof. Dr. William
Edgar III M.A. in Theology (Maîtrise en Théologie):
1987 Faculté Libre de Théologie
Réformée Thesis: “Imago
Dei et Utopie Sociale: Essai d'Anthropologie Postcritique” Advisor: Dr. Christian Rouvière B.A. in Theology (Licence en Théologie): 1985 Faculté Libre de Théologie
Réformée Areas of
Specialization and Competence: Ethics and Political Philosophy; Phenomenology Academic and Teaching Experience Visiting Professor Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: 2004-05 Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Flickinger London
School of Economics, University of London Advisor:
Prof. Dr. Cathérine
Audard Post-Doctoral Visiting Scholar: 1997-98 New School for Social Research, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Richard J. Bernstein Associate Professor, Since March 1999 (on leave, 2007-08) Federal Associate Professor, Mar. 1994 - Feb. 1999 SUNY at Stony Brook, Department of Philosophy, Instructor, Fall 1994 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Department of
Philosophy, Adjunct, Fall 1992 - Spring 1993 Teaching Assistant, 1988-1990
The University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St. MS 510
Toledo, OH 43606-3390
Phone: 419-530-4517
Email: nythamar@yahoo.com
Education
Latin American Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
The University of Toledo, Ohio, 2007-08
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Brazilian Center for Research in Democracy, Director (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, 2009 -)
Research Ethics Committee (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, 2004-07)
Jewish Studies and Jewish Philosophy (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, 2006)
Medical Ethics and Applied Ethics (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2006)
Social Philosophy and Global Ethics (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, 1999-2007)
Environmental Ethics and Political Ecology (UFSC, Florianopolis, 1994-98)
Most Recent and Current Research (2003-09):
Transcendental-Semantic Perspectivism and the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (2006-09)
Research Programme in Phenomenology (2007-10)
Research in Moral Epistemology, CNPq (2003-05)
Research in Criticism and Semantics
Publications
Books
Tractatus
ethico-politicus. Porto
Alegre: Edipucrs, 1999. 224 p.
On the Genealogy of Modernity: Foucault’s Social
Philosophy.
Rawls.
Co-Edited Books
Phenomenology Today. Co-Edited with Ricardo Timm de Souza.
Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2001. 519 p. Includes contributions by Klaus Held,
Heinz Leonardy, Donn Welton, Zeljko Loparic, Jens Soentgen, Roberto Walton,
Pierre Kerszberg, E.J. Stein, Lee Hardy et al. Phenomenology Today, Volume 2: Meaning and
Language. Co-Edited with
Ricardo Timm de Souza. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2002. 517 p. Includes
contributions by John Caputo, Dominique Janicaud, Hans Ineichen, Donn Welton,
Gerd Bornheim, Zeljko Loparic, Jens Soentgen, Carlos Gutiérrez, E.J.
Stein et al. Justiça e
Política: Homenagem a Otfried Höffe. Co-Edited with Draiton de
Souza.
Hermeneutics and Prima Philosophia: Festschrift for Ernildo Stein. Co-Edited with Draiton de Souza. Ijui: Ed.Unijui, 2006. 548 p. Includes contributions by Ernst Tugendhat, Hans Ineichen, John Sallis, Manfred Frank, Scarlett Marton, William Richardson et al.
Bioethics, Biotechnology, Biopolitics. Co-edited with R.T. Souza. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2008. 619 p. Includes contributions by Bernhard Waldenfels, Marlene Zarader, Zeev Levy, Ephraim Meir, Yudit Greenberg, Zeljko Loparic, Roberto Walton, E.J. Stein et al.
Global Justice and Democracy. Co-edited with D.G. Souza. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2009. Includes contributions by Ernst Tugendhat, André Berten, Georg Lohmann, François Marty, Jean-Christoph Merle, Wolfgang Kersting, Alessandro Pinzani et al.
In Preparation and Forthcoming Publications: Chapters of Book “Kant
and the Foundations of a Theory of Justice,” in Sonia Felipe (ed.), Justiça e Eqüidade.
Florianópolis: Insular, 1998, p. 105-124. (in Portuguese) “Philosophia Semper Reformanda:
Husserlian Theses on Constitution,” In: Fenomenologia Hoje, edited by Ricardo de Souza and Nythamar de
Oliveira. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2001, p. 247-268. “Kant,
Rawls, and the Foundations of a Theory of Justice,” in Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten
des IX Internationalen
Kant-Kongresses, ed. Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann und Ralph
Schumacher, Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2001, p. 286-295. “Aestheticism in Nietzsche and Foucault,”
in Filosofia: Diálogo de
Horizontes, ed. Heloísa Feltes and Urbano Zilles, Porto Alegre:
Edipucrs, 2001, p. 529-544. “The
Rawls-Habermas Debate,” in Draiton de Souza (ed.), Amor Scientiae: Festschrift para o Prof. R. Ullmann, Porto Alegre: Edipucrs,
2002, p. 523-555. “Les défis normatifs de la justice globale selon
John Rawls,”
in Jean-François Mattéi and Denis Rosenfield (eds.), Civilisation et Barbarie. Paris: PUF,
2002, p. 211-229. (in French) “Processos de Aprendizagem, Mundo da
Vida e Sistema: Idéia de Universidade em Habermas,” in V. Rohden
(ed.), Idéias de Universidade,
“Ideal Theory and Non-Ideal Theory: Rawls between Plato and
Kant,” in Ética e
Justiça, ed. Ricardo di Napoli et al., Editora da UFSM, 2003. p.
95-116. (in Port.) “The Immortality of the Soul in
Plato’s Republic,” Philosophia 7/8 (1994): 41-46. (in
Port.) “Morality,
Sittlichkeit, and the Foundations of Ethics,” Reflexão XX/63 (1995): 95-119. (in Port.) “Meaning and Skepsis in
Wittgenstein’s Investigations,”
Veritas 41/161 (1996): 65-74. (in Port.) “The Worldhood of the World in
Heidegger’s Reading of Heraclitus,” Manuscrito XIX/1 (1996): 201-224. “Ethos, Kosmos, Oikos: Ethics and
Environment,” Ciência e
Ambiente 12 (1996): 43-56. “Habermas on Nietzsche and
Science,” New Nietzsche Studies 2
(1997): 101-110. “Between Aesthetics and
Ethics,”International Studies in
Philosophy 31/4 (1999): 83-100. “Kant as Arbiter between Hobbes
and Rawls,” Filosofia Política 4 (1999):
34-53. (in Port.) “Lifeworld and Form of Life:
Habermas’s Appropriation of
Husserl and Wittgenstein,” Veritas
44/1 (1999): 133-146. (in Port.) “Husserl’s
Transcendental Phenomenology of Meaning in the Investigations,” Veritas
45/1 (2000): 117-134. “Critique
of Public Reason Revisited: Kant as Arbiter between Rawls and Habermas,” Veritas 45/4 (2000): 583-606. “Philosophia Semper Reformanda: Husserlian
Theses on Constitution,” Manuscrito
XXIII/2 (2001): 251-274. “Dialectic and Existence in Kant and
Kierkegaard,” Veritas 46/2
(2001): 231-253. “Aesthetics and Ethics in the Third Critique,”
Veritas 46/4 (2001): 322-341. (in
Port.) “Calvin’s Philosophical
Anthropology of the Imago Dei,” Theophilos 1/2 (2001): 385-404. “Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida:
Demythologizing White Mythology,” Veritas
47/1 (2002): 35-57. “Deconstructing Liberation: Theory
and Praxis,” Teocomunicação
32/135 (2002): 155-178. “Sittlichkeit and
Religion: The Young Hegel’s Communitarianism,” Revista de Filosofia Política Nova Série (UFRGS) No.
III/3 (2002): 89-105. (in Port.) “The normative challenges of global
justice according to John Rawls,” Filosofia
Política, série III, n. 4 (2002): 171-189. (in Port.) “Theoria
and Praxis: A Kantian Conception
of Equality,” Dissertatio 15-16
(2003): 61-74. (in Port.) “Between Being and Nothingness: Sartre’s
Existential Phenomenology of Liberation,” Veritas 48/4 (2003): 581-602. “Ethics, War and Peace,” Revista da Fafimc 29 (2004): 77-97. (in
Port.) “Detranscendentalizing Subjectivity:
Paul Ricoeur’s Revelatory Hermeneutics of Suspicion.” Veritas 49/2 (2004): 235-259. Book Reviews Michael
Kelly, Critique and Power: Recasting the
Foucault/Habermas Debate (MIT Press, 1994), Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic
Theory 4/1 (Blackwell, 1997): 141-144. Pierre
Kerszberg, Critique and Totality (Albany:
State University of New York Press,
1997), 274 p., Studia Kantiana 2 (2000): 151-154. Dick Howard, The Specter of
Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, 368 p. Veritas v. 49/1 (2004): 156-159. Translations Paul Valadier, Nietzsche l'athée de rigueur (1992-93), Paris:
Desclée, 1979. (French into English) Denis L. Rosenfield, “Brazilian
Democracy” (1992) (Portuguese into English) Hugh J. Silverman, “The In-difference
of Ends” (1993) (Portuguese into English) Katharina H. Rosenfield, “The State
of Nature and Nature of the State” (1997) (Portuguese into English) John Rawls, “A Kantian Conception of
Equality” (in Rawls, Zahar,
2003) (English into Portuguese) “Developing Value,” Ethos Institute for
Business and Social Responsibility, 2003 (websites www.ethos.org.br and
www.sustainability.org) (English into Portuguese) Celina Romany (ed.), Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Human Rights in the Americas: A New
Paradigm for Activism. Washington: American University Press, 2001.(English
into Portuguese) Most
Representative Papers
“Rawls's normative conception of the person: A Kantian reinterpretation,” Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division Meeting, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, Dec. 8, 2006.
"Menschenwürde, Menschlichkeit, Menschenwesen: Transcendental semantics and analytical hermeneutics" “Globalization and
Democratization: The Brazilian Reception of Rawls’s Political
Liberalism”, Philosophisches Forum, Universität Kassel, Germany,
February 29, 2003. “Critique
of Public Reason Revisited: Kant as Arbiter between Rawls and Habermas,” Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, February 14, 2002. “John Rawls and the Question of Political
Stability,” “Global Justice and Local
Action,” Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY; April 27, 2001. “Dialectic
and Existence in Kant and Kierkegaard,” American Philosophical
Association, Eastern Division Meeting, New York, December 27, 2000. “Kant,
Rawls, and the Foundations of a Theory of Justice,” IX Internationaler
Kant-Kongress, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, March 25, 2000. “The
Rawls-Habermas Debate and the Fate of Civil Society in Brazilian
Democracy,” Latin American Center, State University of New York at Stony
Brook, April 7, 1998. “Between
Aesthetics and Ethics: Desire at the Limits of Representation,” 8th
Annual Philosophy Interpretation Culture Conference, State University of New
York at Binghamton, NY, April 25, 1998. “Theory
of Justice: Kant and Rawls,” Colloquia of the Ph.D. Program in
Philosophy; State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, NY, November
14, 1996. “The
Foucault-Habermas Debate: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity,”
Graduate Program in Philosophy, Villanova University, PA; December 15, 1995. Organization of
International Events Member of Scientific Committee, X. Internationaler Kant Kongress, Kant-Gesellschaft; Chair of Organizing Committee, Kolloquium "Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants"; Chair of Organizing Committee, Third International
Symposium on Justice; Sept. 1-5, 2003; Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, RS,
Brazil. Chair
of Organizing Committee, Globalization and Ethics Panel, Second World Social
Forum; Jan.31-Feb. 4, 2002; Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre,
Brazil. Chair
of Organizing Committee, Second International Symposium on Phenomenology and
Hermeneutics; Oct. 29-Nov. 1, 2001; Pontifical Catholic University, Porto
Alegre, Brazil. Chair of Organizing Committee, Second
International Symposium on Justice; Aug. 21-25, 2000; Pontifical Catholic
University, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Chair of Organizing Committee, First
International Symposium on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; Nov. 16-20, 1999;
Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Chair of Organizing Committee, First
International Symposium on Justice; Aug. 18-22, 1997; Federal University of
Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil. Awards and
Fellowships Latino Faculty Estrella Award, The University of Toledo, 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Post-Doctoral
Fellowship, 2004-05. DAAD-Capes, Brazil-Germany Academic Exchange,
Jan.-Feb., 2003. Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) Fellowship;
1995-2004. Brazilian National Research Council Post-Doctoral
Fellowship ( Pontifical
Catholic University Travel Stipends, 2001, 2002, 2003. Travel Stipends, Fulbright Commission; 1995. W.
Burghardt Turner Fellowship, SUNY at Stony Brook; 1990-1994. Professional
Affiliations American Philosophical Association (International
Member) Brazilian Kant-Gesellschaft (Research Member,
President of RS state chapter) Brazilian Society for Phenomenology (Founding Member) Languages English, French,
Portuguese, Spanish (fluent) German, Greek, Hebrew,
Italian, Latin (reading knowledge) References SUNY at Stony Brook SUNY at Stony Brook New School for Social
Research SUNY at Stony Brook Université de Toulouse Syracuse University
Tractatus practico-theoreticus. (forthcoming, 2009)
Deconstructing Liberation: The Phenomenological Deficit of Critical Theory (in preparation)
“Zu einer hermeneutische Begründung der Menschenrechte,” in Heinz Eidam, Frank Hermenau and Draiton de Souza (eds),
Metaphysik und Hermeneutik. Festschrift für H.-G. Flickinger. “Globalization and Democratization in
Quaderni della Rivista Internazzionale di Filosofia
“The Problem of the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights: A Transcendental-Semantic Approach to Cosmopolitanism,” in Filosofia e Direitos Humanos, ed. O.A. Aguiar, C.M. Pinheiro and K. Franklin. Fortaleza: Editora da UFC, 2006, p. 123-142.
“Rawls,” Dictionary of Philosophy of Law. Edited by Vicente Barreto. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Unisinos, 2006.
"Guilt," in Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ed. Yudit Greenberg. New York: ABC-CLIO, 2007.
"Adeus: The Epiphany of the Other according to Levinas," in Phenomenology 2005, Volume II: Selected Essays from Latin America, ed. Zeljko Loparic and Roberto Walton, Zeta Books, 2007.
"Edmund Husserl," in Clássicos da Filosofia, ed. Rossano Pecoraro. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da PUC-Rio, 2008.
"Husserl, Heidegger and the Transcendental Problem of Signification," Fenomenologia Hoje, Volume 3: Bioethics, Biotechnology, Biopolitics, ed. Ricardo Timm de Souza and Nythamar de Oliveira. Porto Alegre: Edipucrs, 2008.
"Humanity and Universalizability: A Kantian Interpretation of the Foundations of Human Rights," in Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants: Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, ed. Valerio Rohden et al. Berlin/New York: W. de Gruyter, 2008, vol. 5, p. 745-756.
"Phenomenology," In The Blackwell Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Edited by Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte, and Otavio Bueno. Blackwell, 2009.
Articles
“Zu einer hermeneutischen Begründung der Menschenrechte,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54/6 (2006): 829-840.
“Tout autre est tout autre: Human Rights and transcendental-semantic perspectivism,” Veritas 51/2 (2006): 98-108.
“Adeus: The Epiphany of the Other according to Levinas,” Filosofazer 28 (2006): 11-22.
“The Problem of the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights,” Electronic Review ethic@ v.5, n. 1 (2006): 21-31.
“Rawls's normative conception of the person: A Kantian reinterpretation,” Veritas 52/1 (2007): 79-99.
"Husserl, Heidegger, and the task of a phenomenology of justice," Veritas 53/1 (2008): 123-144.
"Lifeworld, Democratic Ethos, and Globalization: Habermas's Deliberative Democracy," Dois Pontos 5/2 (2008): 49-71.
"Democracy and Education: Kant, Dewey, Habermas," Filosofazer 17/33 (2008): 19-33.
"Habemus Habermas: Ethical Universalism between Naturalism and Religion", Veritas 54/1 (2009): 217-237.
"Affirmative Action, Recognition, Self-Respect: Axel Honneth and the Phenomenological Deficit of Critical Theory," Civitas 9/2 (forthcoming, 2009)
"Affirmative Action, Recognition, Disrespect: Recasting Honneth’s Critique of Power," Colloquium on "Inequalities in the World System," Cebrap, Sao Paulo, September 4, 2009.
"Habemus Habermas: Deliberative Democracy and Globalization," Seattle University, January 7, 2009.
"Reflective Equilibrium and Life-World: Habermas's Formal-Pragmatic Perspectivism," Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, October 18, 2008.
"Global Justice, Ethics, and Politics," Felician College, Philosophy Dept., Albin Obal Hall, Lodi, NJ, October 14, 2008.
"Reflective Equilibrium and Life-World," Illinois State University,
Philosophy Colloquia and Guest Lecture Series, April 4, 2008.
"Global Ethics: Pluralistic Universalism, Communitarianism, and Cosmopolitanism,"
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, December 7, 2007.
"Toward a Phenomenology of Justice," Philosophy Colloquium Series,
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, November 9, 2007.
"Latin American Liberation Theology and Philosophy," Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture,
Office of Latino Initiatives, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, September 25, 2007.
“World, Subjectivity, and Meaning: Husserl, Heidegger and the Transcendental Problem of Signification,” Australasian Association of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia, July 3, 2007.
University of Coimbra, International Congress of Phenomenology, March 12, 2005
"Humanity and Universalizability: The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights"
St. Louis University in Madrid, Spain; November 30, 2004.
"A Kantian Interpretation of the Problem of Grounding Human Rights"
University of Lisbon, Portugal; November 25, 2004.
“Detranscendentalizing
Subjectivity: Paul Ricoeur’s Revelatory Hermeneutics of Suspicion”,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, EUA, February 2, 2004.
Chair of Organizing Committee, Fourth International Symposium on Justice; Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2009; PUCRS and Goethe-Institut, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Chair of Organizing Committee, "Bioethics, Biotechnology, Biopolitics": Third International Symposium of the Brazilian Society for Phenomenology; June 5-9, 2006; Pontifical Catholic University, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
4.-9. Sept. 2005; University of São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Kant-Studien in Brasilien (in Vorbereitung des Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 2005);
Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre; 3.-7.05.2004; Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Catherine Audard
John D. Caputo
James Swindler
Illinois State University
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