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Wayne Cristaudo is an Associate Professor and Director of European Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of a number of articles, chapters and books on many of the major figures in philosophy.
His most important book to date is Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged (Rodopi). He has two forthcoming books, his magnum opus, Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (University of Toronto Press) and A Philosophical History of Love (Transaction).
He has finished a novel Crossler’s Revenge Redemption which his friend and colleague Denis Meyer has translated into French – they are looking for a publisher. Download and read the first chapter.
Wayne has very ambivalent feelings about universities, believing they have the potential to be great places of social energy and creativity, but are marred by a number of institutional world wide consensuses that are - at least in the field he is familiar with - guaranteed to produce mediocrity, or just plain stupidity, in the Human Sciences. He think 'manageralism' is the last great social hoax of the 20th century and is utterly toxic within universities.
To live well, live passionately, love hard and do what you find inspiring, so that you might inspire others, and accept that death is part of the deal - his interest in theology revolves around nothing more than this. His favourite thoughts of the 20th century can be book-ended by Rosenstock-Huessy and Lester Bangs with a Townes van Zandt, Ronnie Lane and Bill Fay soundtrack.
Wayne Cristaudo has released two CD's.
Visit Wayne Cristaudo's blog on My Space.