Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He has served as president of the Hegel Society of America and the Soren Kierkegaard Society and as co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. His works include History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology (3rd edition; Indiana University Press) and God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Indiana University Press). He is co-editor (with Martin Matu_tik) of Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Indiana University Press).