Fred Dallmayr is an American philosopher and political theorist. He is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus in Political Science with a joint appointment in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He holds a Doctorate of Law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and a PhD in Political Science from Duke University, USA. He has served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP); as an advisory member of the Scientific Committee of RESET – Dialogue on Civilizations (Rome); as the Executive Co-Chair of World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations (Vienna); and as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (Berlin). A few of his major publications include Between Freiburg and Frankfurt: Toward a Critical Ontology (1991); The Other Heidegger (1993); Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter (1996; Japanese translation 2001); Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (1998; Farsi translation 2005); Peace Talks – Who Will Listen? (2004); Small Wonder: Global Power and Its Discontents (2005); In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times (2007); Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis (2013); Freedom and Solidarity: Toward New Beginnings (2015); and Post-Liberalism: Recovering a Shared World (2019).