Gordon D. Marino is professor of philosophy, Boldt Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. 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 His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives hi Minnesota.