Abstract

A worthy product of the growing interest on the part of North Americans in Ibero-American philosophy is Patrick Romanell's Making of the Mexican Mind: A Study in Recent Mexican Thought. This is the first book published in English, or, for that matter, in any language, on twentieth-century Mexican philosophy. The fact that Romanell's book was translated into Spanish and published in Mexico soon after the appearance of the American edition is clear proof that it is not a mere expository work written primarily for home consumption. Besides, the volume is not restricted, as its subtitle might suggest, to a study of contemporary Mexican philosophy. It aims at something more than that: to discover the essence of the Mexican way of life and thus to uncover the Latin-American soul.