"How can this life have meaning if at my death nothing of me remains?" This is the essential question with which Miguel de Unamuno, the most accomplished Spanish man of letters of the twentieth century, struggled during his entire life. Unamuno"s views have been the subject of vigorous debate: was he a Christian or an unbeliever? "Miguel de Unamuno"s Quest for Faith" seeks to appreciate and clarify Unamuno"s faith commitments without diminishing or exaggerating them. His milieu encouraged him to equate knowledge with science, but his existential angst told him humans must be something more than short-lived products of matter. He believed that his philosophy and his resulting faith must affect the choices he made in life. Jan E. Evans surveys what was at stake in Unamuno"s desire to believe and the stance that he came to live with. That stance is contrasted with thinkers whom he read and admired: Soren Kierkegaard, Blaise Pascal, and William James. Ultimately, this book tests Unamuno"s...