Fünfter Vortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe im Wintersemester 2015/2016:
"Engaging with Contemporary Philosophy  in the Middle East and Muslim South Asia: Themes, Approaches, and New Perspectives"

Sarhan Dhouib teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kassel. In his dissertation thesis he worked on Schelling’s identity philosophy. In 2011 he was awarded the prize for young researchers in philosophy by the Goethe-Institut. His research interests include classical and modern Arab-Islamic philosophy, Kant and German idealism, especially Schelling, political philosophy, the philosophy of human rights, and intercultural philosophy. He is involved in the Ueberweg project on philosophy in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Muslim world and serves on the editorial board of the Philosophie in der nahöstlichen Moderne / Philosophy in the Modern Middle East book series published by Klaus-Schwarz Verlag (Berlin). His publications include several edited and co-edited volumes such as Gerechtigkeit in transkultureller Perspektive (December 2015), Demokratie, Pluralismus und Menschenrechte: Transkulturelle Perspektiven (Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2014), Kultur, Identität und Menschenrechte: Transkulturelle Perspektiven (Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2012), and, with P. Brunozzi and W. Pfannkuche, Transkulturalität der Menschenrechte: Arabische, chinesische und europäische Perspektiven (Munich: Albert-Verlag, 2013).