"What on earth is
a 'concrete universal'?"

— Said to be an annotation
(undated) by Robert M. Pirsig
of A History of Philosophy ,
by Frederick Copleston,
Society of Jesus.

In the spirit of the late Thomas Guinzburg…

See also "Concrete Universal" in this journal.

Related material— From a Bloomsday reply
to a Diamond Theory  reader's comment, an excerpt—

The reader's comment suggests the following passages from
the book by Stirling quoted above—

 

Here Stirling plays a role analogous to that of Professor Irwin Corey
accepting the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow  in 1974.