About the Author

Gordon Marinois a professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Awards for excellence in writing on ethics and the law, Marino is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, editor of Modern Library's Basic Writings of Existentialism and Ethics- The Essential Writings, and editor of The Quotable Kierkegaard. His articles have been published widely, including in TheAtlantic Monthly,TheNew York Times Magazine,TheWall Street Journal,andAmerican Poetry Review.