This book is a study of the twentieth century «Ordinary Language» philosopher, O. K. Bouwsma. An avid reader of Kierkegaard, Bouwsma found in him a clue to understanding the language of religious belief. He wrote essays on religious themes and aesthetics aimed at understanding philosophical language about poetry and music.

Ronald E. Hustwit is the Frank Halliday Ferris Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster, where he has taught philosophy since 1967. After graduating from Westminster College in Pennsylvania, he studied for an M.A. at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published papers on Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, and collected and edited five books of the papers of O. K. Bouwsma. He has been a Fellow at St. John’s University’s Center for Ecumenical and Cultural Research in Minnesota, a Visiting Scholar at The University of Texas, and a Visiting Lecturer at Aberdeen University in Scotland.

«After reading Ronald E. Hustwit's biography, it is, perhaps, surprising that a man such as O.K. Bouwsma is not better known. [...] The book is weil worth reading because this was a man well worth knowing.» (David Rozema, Philosophical Investigations, Jan. 2017)

Contents: A Sketch of the Journey – The Young Professor in Nebraska, 1928-1939 – Finding Oneself in a Woods, 1939-1949 – Midway upon the Journey, 1949-1951 – Coming to Oneself Where the Right Way Was Lost, 1951-1965 – Knowing How to Go on in Texas, 1965-1978.