Hans Schelkshorn is chair of the Department of Intercultural Philosophy of Religion at the University of Vienna. He studied philosophy, catholic theology and classical philology in Vienna and Tübingen (Germany). After a doctorate in catholic theology in 1989 and a doctorate in philosophy in 1994, he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 2007. His main research fields are philosophy of religion, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and theories of modernity in an intercultural perspective, Latin American philosophy. He is co-founder of the journal "Polylog - Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren" (www.polylog.net) and president of the Viennese Society of Intercultural Philosophy (WIGIP). He is one of the specialists in Latin American philosophy in the German-speaking world, and he participated in the dialogue between Latin American Philosophy of Liberation and European Discourse Ethics in the 1990s. His last monography is a revised version of his habilitation: Rethinking European Modernity. Reason, Power, and Coloniality in Early Modern Thought (London: Bloomsbury 2024).