Charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in order to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of modern thought.

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1961.
235 pp.
Second edition.
Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket.