Jan Olof Bengtsson, The Worldview of Personalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Bengtsson ends his study thus: “There are good reasons for giving them [the personalists] a hearing again.” He makes his case in a good and demanding book.As philosophers fall into obscurity, their place taken by others who in their turn will follow them, almost inevitably valuable ideas are lost. Bengtsson’s effort is to show the origins of (almost exclusively) American and British personalism in Jacobi and Schelling (who are better remembered than are those they influenced).