Associate Professor of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program at the University of Washington, Tacoma/Seattle
Research project:
From regional communities to global human rights discourses: Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Latin America
Research project:
“The topic of this research project is the necessity of a pluralized and differentiated application of the cosmopolitan ideal using the example of existing supranational structures in Europe and Latin America. This pluralization should be seen as a condition for the establishment of dynamic global orders that must be able to better grasp or cope with the high complexity of the challenges and opportunities of globalization processes. The desire for a pluralization of the cosmopolitan ideal will be developed on the basis of a twofold strategy. On the one hand, it is about Kant’s universalistically founded ideal of a “world civil rights community”; on the other hand, however, this legacy will be problematized and further developed using the example of two regional orders in Europe and Latin America, which emerge in connections to different geographical contexts and cooperate in areas such as economics, politics, law and others. Both Kant’s ideal of world citizenship and the constitution of these specific regional structures are strongly based on the ideal of peace and the condition of human rights discourses. This allows for the following conclusion: processes of generating peace and human rights discourses proved to be a necessary condition for the establishment of a plural, just, legitimate and effective normative order in the age of globalization.” (Amos Nascimento)
Events:
Paper Presentation, July 6, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
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Biografische Angaben
Amos Nascimento is Associate Professor of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program (IAS) at the University of Washington in Tacoma. His research focuses on critical theory and discourse theory as well as Latin American philosophy, especially liberation ethics and Brazilian studies. He is the Principal Investigator of the "Normative Innovation" research group at the University of Washington, which deals with human rights, cosmopolitanism and normativity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Amos Nascimento studied music, social sciences and philosophy in Argentina, Brazil, the USA and Germany. He completed his doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. -
Publikationen
Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Cosmopolitan Ideals: Essays on Critical Theory and Human Rights (Co-Hrsg. mit Lutz-Bachmann), Ashgate, Farnham 2014. Building Cosmopolitan Communities, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2013. A Matter of Discourse: Community and Communication in Contemporary Philosophies, Ashgate, Farnham 1998. Grenzen der Moderne. Europa & Lateinamerika (Co-Editor mit Witte), IKO Verlag, Frankfurt 1997.