Kierkegaard in the Present Age

by Gordon Marino, Philip Rieff (Preface)

Book by Marino, Gordon Daniel

Genres: Philosophy

124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Gordon Marino is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Marino took his doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Before coming to St. Olaf in 1995, he taught at Harvard, Yale, and Virginia Military Institute.

A recipient of the Richard J. Davis Ethics Award for excellence in writing on ethics and the law, Marino is the author of Kierkegaard in the Present Age, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, and editor of the Modern Library’s Basic Writings of Existentialism and Ethics: The Essential Writings. In addition to his scholarly publications, Marino’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, and many other national and international publications.

A former boxer, Dr. Marino has been a USA Boxing coach since 1995. He was the head coach of boxing at Virginia Military Institute and currently trains both amateurs and professionals in Minnesota. He is also an award-winning boxing writer for among other venues, the Wall Street Journal.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter, a philosophy major, picked this out for me. I read it. I did not understand it. I had to read some pages multiple times.

[Simone JW. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Critiques about society and how deliberation, levelling and mass media are detrimental to us collectively and individually.