Edward F. Mooney is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion at Syracuse University. He is the author, most recently, of Excursions with Kierkegaard: Others, Goods, Death, Final Faith (Bloomsbury, 2012), Excursions with Thoreau, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Living Philosophy in Kierkegaard, Melville, and Others: Intersections of Literature, Philosophy, and Religion (forthcoming, Bloomsbury). You can follow him on his blog, “Mists on the River.”