Jorn
Kroll
Loving philosophy as a love of wisdom, Jorn has been
very disappointed by most of contemporary academic philosophy.
Following his philosophical disenchantment, Jorn turned
to apparently more practical matters. Since 1989, he has
been working as a transportation engineer and urban planner
with the City of San Francisco, trying to make public
places and streets more livable.
He studied philosophy and political thought at the University
of Goettingen (Germany; MA, 1976); was influenced by the
liberating epistemology and Socratic-sophistic teaching
style of Paul Feyerabend at the University of California,
Berkeley, where he later studied with Hubert L. Dreyfus.
In 2001, Jorn completed a PhD dissertation on Moving About
in a Technological World: A Hermeneutic-Phenomenological
Inquiry of Urban Streets and Freeways as Public Architecture
(UC Berkeley, Department of Architecture).
In addition to applications of phenomenology, Jorn is
interested in:
• proper role(s) of technology in highly industrialized
societies,
• wisdom of western and eastern antiquity,
• judicious use of world religions and psychology,
• cutting edge of science and consciousness research.
Currently Jorn is captivated by non-dual “thinking”
and its potential for germinating individual and collective
freedom.
