Author Biography

Werner Krieglstein was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up near Frankfurt in Germany. He is a Fulbright scholar and University of Chicago fellow. During the turbulent 60 Krieglstein was a student with Theodore W. Adorno at the Frankfurt School and director of the well known neue buehne.

Krieglstein holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. He currently is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the College of DuPage.

Krieglstein is a course director at the Interuniversity Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and board member of the International Society for Universal Dialogue.

Krieglstein is author of three books:

The Dice-Playing God (UPA, 1992)

Compassion, A New Philosophy of the Other, (Rodopi, 2002)

Compassionate Thinking, An Introduction to Philosophy (Kendall&Hunt, 2006)

He also published numerous articles in national and international journals.