"INSIGHT is a masterly work, whose importance reaches far beyond the boundaries of theology and Catholic philosophy. It has much to say of interest and significance to cognitive psychologists and to students of epistemology. Lonergan's careful scrutiny of the procedures by which we put our creative intelligences to work is precise, lucid, and fascinating."
STEPHEN TOULMIN University of Chicago
"With that boldness characteristic of genius, Jesuit philosopher Bernard Lonergan has set out to do for the twentieth century what even Aquinas could not do for the thirteenth: provide an 'understanding of understanding' that can illuminate not only the broad patterns of all accumulated knowledge but also reveal an 'invariant pattern' for further developments in human
understanding. INSIGHT has become a philosophic classic comparable in scope to Hume's Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding." NEWSWEEK