Nythamar Fernandes de Oliveira was born in Rio de Janeiro and teaches Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre (PUCRS), Brazil. He earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994), with a dissertation "On the Genealogy of Modernity: Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault" (publication by Nova Science, 2003), defended before the committee composed of Professors David B. Allison (President), Kenneth Baynes (Advisor), Mary Rawlinson, and Herman Lebovics (External Reader). He also holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from Villanova University (1990), under the s…
Nythamar Fernandes de Oliveira was born in Rio de Janeiro and teaches Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University in Porto Alegre (PUCRS), Brazil. He earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1994), with a dissertation "On the Genealogy of Modernity: Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault" (publication by Nova Science, 2003), defended before the committee composed of Professors David B. Allison (President), Kenneth Baynes (Advisor), Mary Rawlinson, and Herman Lebovics (External Reader). He also holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from Villanova University (1990), under the supervision of Jack Caputo, and a Master's in Theology from Aix-en-Provence (1987), with a thesis on Liberation Theology, under Christian Rouvière. He was a postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, in New York(1997-98), under Dick Bernstein, and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research in Human Rights (2004-05) at the University of Kassel (Germany) and the London School of Economics, under Professors Hans-Georg Flickinger and Catherine Audard respectively. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toledo, OH, in 2007-08, where he was awarded the Latino Teaching Award. He published 3 books and co-edited 6 volumes, having authored over 30 articles and supervised over 35 graduate students in Ethics and Political Philosophy, leading to the public defense of their theses.