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"If God is sovereign, then his lordship must extend over all of life, and it cannot be restricted to the walls of the church or within the Christian orbit." Abraham Kuyper Common Grace 1.1.

Sunday 19 July 2015

English translation of Dooyeweerd's biography now published

Update: It has now been published:


ISBN 978-0888152084; Hbk; 558 pages

Paideia Press are in the process of translating the biography of Herman Dooyeweerd, by his nephew Marcel E. Verburg, Herman Dooyeweerd: leven en werk van een Nederlands christen-wijsgeer (Ten Have, Netherlands Baarn/Passage, 1989).




 Here's the proposed contents:

Contents
HERMAN DOOYEWEERD: 
THE LIFE AND WORK OF A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER

Author’s Preface   – xii
Acknowledgments   – xiii
Translators Note   – xviii
Abbreviations   – xix

Chapter One – Youth, 1894–1922   – 1 
School days 4 
Woltjer 4
Law study 5
Earliest writings 7 
Neo-mysticism and Frederik van Eeden 9
Wagnerianism 11 
Dramatic arts 12 Philosophy 13
Completion of doctoral 
studies 15 Reviews of dissertation 17
Dooyeweerd as a civil servant 18
First public speech 20
Immanent criticism 22 
Critical realism 24
Dooyeweerd comments on his own development 31

Chapter Two – At The Kuyper Foundation, 1922-1926 
Roman Catholic and Anti-Revolutionary Politics 44
Cosmos and Logos 48 
Thinking, meaning-giving and meaning 53
The modal categories of logical thought 54
The transition to cosmology 57
New white papers 60
The law 61 
The law-idea (Wetsidee) 61 
Sphere-sovereignty 64 
Further white papers 67
The monthly Nederland en Oranje 67
The Association of Calvinist Jurists 69 
Antirevolutionaire Staatkunde 71
Co-determination, or industrial democracy 75
Antirevolutionaire Staatkunde undergoes a change 77 
Calvinism contra neo-Kantianism 79
Marriage 81
Dependence on Nicolai Hartmann? 82

Chapter Three – The Early Years as Professor, 1926-1931 
Filling the vacancy 87
Vollenhoven 91
Differences between 
Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven 95
Congratulations from Kohnstamm 97
The appointemnt made official 97
Advisory status 98 
Inaugural oration 99
Augustine, Thomas, Luther 103 
The universal law-idea of Calvinism 103
Sovereignty of the law-spheres 104
The law-idea in the science and philosophy of law 106 
Conclusion of the inaugural 107
Reactions to the inaugural 109
Teaching courses in the Law Faculty 110 
First lecture 111
The Geelkerken Affair 115
Synthesis 117 
Family circumstances 119
Subject-functions and object- functions 120 
Criticism of the conceptual apparatus 122 
A debate with Leo Polak 123
Dooyeweerd’s answer 125 
An anthropological note 129
The professors’ scholarly contributions 131
Cosmic time 131
Legal principles and the historical law-sphere 133 
Thing structures 136 
Law-spheres 136
The institution of marriage 137
Gerbrandy’s criticism 137
Co-determination in Amsterdam 139
State intervention 140 
The Annals of Critical Philosophy 143 
Sphere-universality 144
The idea of a “Great Netherlands Culture” 145
Rehabilitation 147
Toward a magnum opus 150

Chapter Four – Carrying On As Professor, 1931-1934 
The Law Faculty 153
The Crisis in Humanist Political Theory 153 
Reviews 160 The meaning of history 164
Dooyweerd’s rectorship 166
The sources of positive law 171 
Germany and the New Order 174
Organic suffrage 175 
The congress of the Calvinist Student Movement 179
The Second International Congress of Calvinists 179

Chapter Five – De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (1935-36) 
The Preface 186
Volume One 188
The selfhood 188
Parts II and III of Volume One 190 
Volume Two 196
Volume Three 200 
Enkaptic structural interlacements 205
Conclusions 207 
Reviews 209
Professor Bellon 210
Professor Robbers 210 
Dr. Goedewaagen 212
Professor Franken 212
Personal reactions 213
Professor Stoker 215
The Association for Calvinist Philosophy 216 
Periodical publications 219 
International congress on penal law 220
Jewish Jurists 221 
Fascism 222
Christian employers 223
The Christian Idea of The State 224

Chapter Six – Disputes At The Free University 
Prelude 230
The first brochure 231
Reactions in the press 234 
The second brochure 235
The Board of Curators acts 236 
Professor Hepp’s interview with Curators 237
Dooyeweerd’s first memorandum 248
Professor Hepp’s memorandum 242 
Dooyeweerd’s second memorandum 248
The Curators deliberate further 255
Dooyeweerd’s theses 256
Hepp’s theses 257

Chapter Seven – Clarifying The Course, 1937-1939 
The Kuyper centenary 261
What the Philosophy of the Law-Idea owed Dr. Kuyper 263
The heart 265
Kuyper’s philosophy of science 266 
An improvisation about the concept of substance 270 
The presuppositions of theoretical thought 272
The transcendental critique of theoretical thought 274 
Dissemination of the Philosophy of the Law-Idea 278
Other publications 280 
Addresses 283
Switzerland 284
Juliana Hospital 287 
Family life 289

Chapter Eight – Wartime Occupation, 1940-1945 
The Law Faculty 293
The transcendental critique 295
The four religious ground-themes 297
The meaning of marriage 299 
The new “Question and Answer” column 301
Reformation and Scholasticism 305
Maurice Hauriou 309 
Thomism 310 
Interruption of instruction 313
The syllabi on Encyclopedia of the Science of Law 314 
The syllabus on Private and Public Law 318
Encyclopedia of the Science of Law 319 
The Schilder Affair 319
Disagreements at the Free University 323 
The transcendental critique in action: Ovink and Pos 324 
Guidelines for industrial organization 328
The Dooyeweerd family 333

Chapter Nine – Renewal and Reflection, 1945-1950
A new Netherlands 337
Further exposition of the transcendental critique 343 
Dooyeweerd and Robbers 344
The Schilder Affair and the Association for Calvinist Philosophy 354 
Professor B. Holwerda 349 Rev. E. G. van Teylingen 351 
The debate 352
Addresses to the Association for Calvinistic Philosophy 354 
Other addresses and publications 356 
The Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences 357
The question of the Dutch East Indies 358
Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy, Volume One 360 
The passing of Harry Diemer 363 
Private chairs for Calvinist Philosophy 364

Chapter Ten – Further Elaborations, 1950-1958 
A visit to South Africa 369 Highlights of the years 370 
Twenty-five years as professor 370
Professor Kohnstamm 372 
Professor Miskotte 374
Reformed critics: Isaac Diepenhorst and Dirk Jellema 375 
Scholarly attention from Roman Catholics 378 
Journeys to France 380
Publications in the field law 382
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 389 
Volume One of A New Critique 391
Volume Two of A New Critique 393
Volume Three of A New Critique 394 
The status of A New Critique 396
Contributions to reference works 397 
Journeys to other countries 399
The Association for the 
Philosophy of Law 401

Chapter Eleven – Recognition, Reflection, Dialogue, 1959-1964
Creation and evolution 407
What is Christian philosophy? In dialogue with van Peursen 418
Van Peursen answers Dooyeweerd 426 
Dooyeweerd’s unfinished response 426 
The future of Western culture 432
The autonomy of philosophic thought 432
Philosophical anthropology 435 Taking stock 440 
Policies regarding government subsidies 444
Chapter Twelve – At Journey’s End 449 
Emeritation 450
Philosophy and Christianity 453
Other publications occasioned by Dooyeweerd’s retirement 455
A brief return to the Free University 457 
Commemorating his teacher 457 
Penal law 458
An honorary doctorate 459 
Later publications and discussions 459
In discussion with Cornelius Van Til 461 
Other critics in the United States 464 
Further publications 466

Chapter Thirteen – Conclusions   475

Appendix – Opening Lecture, Fall 1926   485
List of Sources   – 499
Index of Names   – 517
Index of Subjects   – 525

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