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

Werner 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 The College of DuPage .

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

Werner is the 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)

For more about Werner's latest book, Compassionate Thinking please visit http://compassionatethinking.com

Or for more general information about Transcendental Perspectivism see Wikipedia or visit Werner's official website Perspectivism.com

Werner is starring in a upcoming film entitled Light Denied .

"Light" is a symbol of Dionysian values advocated by Friedrich Nietzsche but "denied" by our civilization. Can we immerse ourselves in this light and remain sane?

The story documents a personal journey in which we follow three philosophers;

Alan Rosenberg, a Holocaust scholar and a practitioner of Nietzschean self-mastery,

Werner Kriegelstein, a theoretician of the "now-moment," who undergoes a Nietzsche induced crisis, and Victor Krebs, who stresses the relevance of the Dionysian energy.

Nietzsche's ethics and their historical consequences are critiqued by Karl-Otto Apel, a "living classic" of German philosophy.

Complementing the documentary journey is a fictitious professor of philosophy, Felix Lewinsky (played by Krzysztof Janczar), who descends into madness while in the process of studying Nietzsche.

The film combines fictitious narrative from "Sister of Dionysus" with documentary material shot in Greece, Finland, Poland and Switzerland.

With the participation of members of the International Society for Universal Dialogue.

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Werner also published numerous articles in national and international journals.

Articles:

Is the Unexamined Life Really not Worth Living in Skepsis (XV/I 2004) Olympic Center for Philosophy & Culture

Family Social Justice, Building the Smallest Democracy at the Heart of Society in The Creative Woman, Gov. State University, University Park, Ill. Summer 1992

Between Fear and Enlightenment - What Directions Does the Science of Chaos Offer for Ethics and Ecology? (Proceedings of the Second International Symposium for Universalism in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 1990.

Philosophical Implications of Chaos Theory; Toward a Meta-Critique of Action Dialectics and Humanism, The Polish Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XVII No. 3/1990)

Lectures:

Collective Orchestration as an Evolutionary Tool: Implications of Synchronicity and the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, April 2005 (Course: Philosophy of Science)

How Can Science Contribute to Solve the Spiritual Crisis? Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, May 2005

Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of Community. Warsaw University, Poland, June 2005

Compassion and the Wisdom of Nature Third European Congress of Universalism, Warsaw University, Poland, August 2005

Toward a Universal Ethics Based on a Naturalistic Foundation of Community. Third European Congress of Universalism, Warsaw University, Poland, August 2005

Humanity at the Turning Point: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom We Need a New Philosophy of Nature ISUD Sixth World Congress, 15-20 July 2005, Helsinki, Finland

The Tao of Partnership (presented at the First International Minoan Celebration of Partnership, Oct. 1992 Crete, Greece.)

Enlightenment and Chaos - From Fear to Liberation in a Self-Organizing Universe (presented at the Conference of the Coalition for Secular Humanism and Free Thought, Toronto, June 1992)

Chaos Theory Can Close the Gap between the Sciences and the Humanities (Presented at the Third International Symposium for Universalism at Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, August 1991)

On Partnership, - A Model for a New World Order, Honors Society of the College of DuPage, April 1991.

The Power of Chaos - On the Relationship between the Sciences and the Humanities Triton College, Chicago, Science Lecture Series, March 1991.

Chaos in the Classroom - How does the Science of Chaos influence Teaching? Association for the Teaching of Philosophy, Illinois 1990.

Between Fear and Enlightenment - What Directions Does the Science of Chaos Offer for Ethics and Ecology? (Presented at the Second International Symposium for Universalism in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 1990.

Philosophical Implications of Chaos Theory; Toward a Meta-Critique of Action (Presented at First International Symposium for Universalism in Warsaw, Poland. Published in Dialectics and Humanism, The Polish Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XVII No. 3/1990)

Beyond Brecht, On the Alienation Effect in Brecht’s Aesthetics Workshop at University of Michigan, 1987.

Art and Community Creation at International Conference on the Future of Religions, Dubrovnik University, Center for Post-Graduate Studies 1987.

Brecht and His Time, Lecture at East-German Symposium at Michigan State University, 1986.

Adorno ‘s Aesthetics: A Post-Modernist Alternative (Presented at 13. Annual Meeting of International Association for Philosophy and Literature, published in Proceedings, 1986)

Redemption and the Concept of Mimesis in Neo-Marxist Philosophy (Presented at XI. Interamerican Conference on Philosophy and Religion, Guadalajara, Mexico, published in Proceedings, 1985)

The Concept of Mimesis in Adorno ‘s Aesthetics at International Conference on the Future of Religions, Dubrovnik University, Center for Post-Graduate Studies, 1985.

The Crisis of Meaning in Art at International Conference on the Future of Religions, Dubrovnik University, Center for Post-Graduate Studies, 1984.

The Question of Truth in Modern Art at International Conference on the Future of Religions. Dubrovnik University, Center for Post-Graduate Studies, 1983.

Ethical Dimensions in Modern Art (published in “Philosophical Journal of Heracletian Society” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 1981.)

Collective Trends in European and American Alternative Theater Movements (published in Polish in Stuka Otwarta Wroclaw, Poland 1978.)

Grotowski, Misfit in America, (published in The Grey City Journal, University of Chicago 1970)

Werner Krieglstein Perspectivism Italy 2004: The Meaning of Life

A short look at a class called the meaning of life that Werner Krieglstein taught at the College of Dupage in 2004 that led students on an excursion through Italy and mind, with philosophy as a central theme. This is a short preview of the trip filmed and edited by Mike Krieglstein.

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