ABOUT THE EDITOR

GORDON MARINO earned his bachelor of arts from Columbia University, his master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and his doctorate from the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought. Marino was research fellow at the Kierkegaard Biblioteket in Copenhagen for three years. He is coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard and author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age. Marino’s essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and many other periodicals. He is currently Professor of Philosophy, the Boldt Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library, and assistant football coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.