Mark Kingwell
Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and
a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. He is the author of twelve books
of political and cultural theory, including the national bestsellers Better Living
(1998), The World We Want (2000), and Concrete Reveries: Consciousness
and the City (2008). His articles on art, architecture and politics have appeared
in, among others, Harper's, the Harvard Design Magazine, the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, Canadian Art, the Globe and Mail, and Queen's
Quarterly. Kingwell has lectured extensively in North America, Europe and
Australia on philosophical subjects. He is the recipient of the Spitz Prize in
political theory, National Magazine Awards for both essays and columns, and
in 2000 was awarded an honorary DFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art
& Design for contributions to theory and criticism. His most recent books, a
collection of his essays on art and philosophy called Opening Gambits and The
Idler's Glossary (created with Joshua Glenn and Seth), appeared in fall 2008.
His philosophical biography of the pianist Glenn Gould will appear in fall 2009,
and he is currently at work on a book about 21st-century democracy. Mark
received his PhD from Yale.
