Georg Cavallar

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Georg Cavallar (born April 22, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian. He is university lecturer for modern history at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna , author and teaches English, history, philosophy and psychology at the Wasagymnasium in Vienna .

Life

After completing his high school diploma and military service, Cavallar completed the teaching degree courses in history and social studies (major), English (minor) and philosophy, psychology, pedagogy (additional studies) with the degrees Mag. Phil. (1986) and Dr. phil. (1989) at the University of Vienna. He spent 1990 to 1991 at the Department of Philosophy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , New York State, on a research project funded by the Fund to Promote Scientific Research . In 1991 he started working as an AHS teacher. In the 1998-9 academic year he conducted research on international philosophical law as a Schrödinger scholarship holder at the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in the Department of Modern History at the University of Vienna.

Cavallar teaches at the Institute for Philosophy and is a lecturer in the postgraduate European course at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are Kant's legal philosophy , the history of international law and cosmopolitanism , cosmopolitan education and the European Enlightenment . He also writes regular guest comments for Austrian newspapers such as Die Presse or Der Standard .

He lives in Vienna with his wife and three children.

Monographs

  • Pax Kantiana. Systematic-historical investigation of the draft "For Eternal Peace" (1795) by Immanuel Kant. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau-Verlag , 1992.
  • Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999.
  • The Rights of Strangers: Theories of international hospitality, the global community, and political justice since Vitoria. Aldershot: Ashgate , 2002.
  • The European Union - from utopia to a community of peace and values. Vienna: Lit , 2006.
  • Imperfect cosmopolis: studies in the history of international legal theory and cosmopolitan ideas. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011.
  • Kant's Embedded Cosmopolitanism: History, Philosophy and Education for World Citizens. Kantstudien-Zusatzhefte Vol. 183. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter , 2015.
  • Theories of Dynamic Cosmopolitanism in Modern European History. Oxford: Peter Lang , 2017.
  • Islam, Enlightenment and Modernity. A plea. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer , 2017.
  • Failed Enlightenment ?: A Philosophical Essay. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer , 2018.
  • Introduction to philosophizing. Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky , 2019 (under review).
  • Who are we? Identities, Islam, Integration and the Modern World (in preparation).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://bg9.at/lehrerinnen-und-sprechstunden/#collapse10
  2. ↑ http://homepage.univie.ac.at/georg.cavallar/
  3. ↑ https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=11464&teaching=true
  4. ↑ Islam and Western Democracy - Are They Incompatible? In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed September 14, 2018]).
  5. ↑ This is not how you create equal opportunities - derStandard.at. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cavallar, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna