The acknowledged masterpiece of Unamuno expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.

Traditional studies of language policy have been criticized for their lack of attention to political actions regarding language that do not emanate from governments and states. These critiques also add that the privileging of dominant policies in the analysis reproduces colonial relations.

The acknowledged masterpiece of Unamuno expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.

Miguel de Unamuno, perhaps the most influential author of modern Spain, wrote his _Treatise on Love of God_ at the height of his career after suffering a crisis of religious faith. Like Saint Augustine’s _Confessions_ and much of Kierkegaard, the _Treatise_ is a study of religious inwardness and proposes to analyze how God can be found within as a beloved person. Not content with simple introspection, Unamuno considers Church fathers such as Athanasius, Origen, and Tertullian as well as modern religious (...) scholars including Albrecht Ritschl, Auguste Sabatier, and Ernest Renan. Although Unamuno abandoned plans to publish the _Treatise_ after Pope Pius X issued an encyclical against modernist theology, it deserves serious study as a prelude to his immensely successful _Tragic Sense of Life_ and the concentrated work of a great thinker on a deeply serious subject. (shrink)