Dooyeweerd’s English writings
The Reformational Publishing Project and Paideia Press are working hard to get out the Collected works of Herman Dooyeweerd out at an affordable price.
Many of these are available from here.
Dooyeweerd SERIES A
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 1
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 2
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 3
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 4
Reformation and Scholastisism in Philosophy A Vol 5
Reformation and Scholastisism in Philosophy A Vol 5-2
Philosophy of Nature and Philosophical Anthropology A Vol 7
Encyclopedia of the Science of Law A Vol 8-1
Dooyeweerd SERIES B
In the Twilight of Western Thought B Vol 4
The Crisis in Humanist Political Theory B Vol 7
Essays in Legal, Social, and Political Philosophy B Vol 12
Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of History B Vol 13
Time, Law, and History B Vol 14
Roots of Western Culture B Vol 15
The Struggle for a Christian Politics B Vol 17
Political Philosophy B Vol 19
The following is a tentative list of Dooyeweerd’s Collected Works as currently envisaged by the General Editor:
A Series – Multiple Volume Sets 1. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Vol. 1/1 (564 pp.)
2. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Vol. 1/2 (596 pp.)
3. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Vol. 1/3 (781 pp.)
4. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Vol. 1/4 (257 pp.)
5. Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy. Vol. 5/1 (404 pp.)
6. Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy. Vol. 5/2 (420 pp.)
7. Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy. Vol. 5/3 (294 pp.)
8. Encyclopedia of the Science of Law. Vol. 8/1 (260 pp.)
9. Encyclopedia of the Science of Law. Vol. 8/2 (260 pp.)
10. Encyclopedia of the Science of Law. Vol. 8/3 (260 pp.)
11. Encyclopedia of the Science of Law. Vol. 8/4 (260 pp.)
12. Encyclopedia of the Science of Law. Vol. 8/5 (260 pp.)
B Series – Smaller Works and Collections of Essays
13. Inaugural Address (1926). (130 pp.)
14. Time, Law, and History. (320 pp.)
15. Essays in Legal, Social, and Political Philosophy. (176 pp.)
16. The Crisis in Humanist Political Theory. (214 pp.)
17. The Struggle for a Christian Politics. (334 pp.)
18. The Roots of Western Culture. (256 pp.)
19. In The Twilight of Western Thought. (180 pp.)
20. Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of History. (130 pp.)
21. Transcendental Problems of Philosophical Thought. (100 pp.)
22. Political Philosophy. (132 pp.)
D Series – Thematic Selections From Series A & B
23. Articles on Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.
24. Articles on Philosophy and Theology.
25. Articles on Law, Society, and Political Thought.
26. Volume To Be Determined.
27. Volume To Be Determined.
28. Volume To Be Determined.
Other Works in English include the following:
1916. An Old Debt to a Pariah
A translation of “Een oude schuld aan een paria,” Opbouw: Maandschrift in dienst der Christ. Levens-en wereldbeschouwing, van en voor jongeren: 161-180.
1932. ARJA [Antirevolutionaire Jongerenactie]. De Standaard Tues. 29 Nov. 1932.
1935. Brunner’s view of law entailed in his work: ‘The Divine Imperative’. Translation of article in Anti-Revolutionaire Staatkunde (1935): 334-374.
1936. The Dilemma for Christian Philosophical Thought and the Critical Character of the Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee. Original Philosophia Reformata (1936): 1-16.
1936e. The Christian Idea of the State (Craig Press, 1968).
1938. Cultural Pessimism. Translation of a radio address Monday 25 April 1938
and as published Mededeelingen 3(1) (May 1938): 1-4.
1938g. “Faith and Science“. In Geloof en Wetenschap. (Uitgavetische van de Calvinis-Studentenbeweging, 1938), 26–28. A provisional translation.
1942. “The essence of Christianity.” A talk given at a meeting of the Comité Levensvragen (Committee for Studying the Questions of Life) sponsored by the Gereformeerde Kerk of Amsterdam South, Sunday, March 1, 1942. Translated by Harry Van Dyke in 2013.
1946. Law Concept in the Economy [Hetwetsbegrip ni de economie] Mededelingen (1946):2-3.
1947d. Introduction to transcendental criticism of philosophic thought. Evangelical Quarterly 19: 47-51.
1947e. A Christian Theory of Social Institutions (Dooyewerd Foundation, 1986)
1948. Transcendental Problems of Philosophic Thought: An Inquiry into the Transcendental Conditions of Philosophy. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids.
1951a. ‘The contest about the concept of sovereignty in modern jurisprudence and political science’ Free University Quarterly 1: 85-106.
1953-58. A New Critique of Theoretical Thought 4 vols. Presbyterian and Reformed, Philadelphia.
This was a revision and a translation of the Dutch.
1954j The doctrine of man according to the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea.
Thirty-two theses, original Correspondentie-bladen van de Vereeniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte 7 (1942), nr. 5.
1956d. Christian Philosophy: An Exploration. Originally chapter I in Verkenningen (“Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte”), Buijten & Schipperheijn, Amsterdam 1962, 11-66. It first appeared in 1956 in Scientia (W. de Haan, Zeist, 1956), 127-159). Also in Christian Philosophy and the Meaning of History (Volume 1 in The Collected Works of Herman Dooyeweerd Series B), 1-36.
1957. ‘Del Vecchio’s idealistic philosophy of the law viewed in the light of a transcendental critique of philosophic thought’ Philosophia Reformata 22: 1-20, 101-24.
1958d. ‘The criteria of progressive and reactionary tendencies in history’ in Verslag van de plechtige viering van het honderdvijftigjarig bestaan der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 6-9 Mei: 213–28.
1959b. Creation and Evolution. Original Philosophia Reformata 24 (1959) 113 – 159.
1960. ‘What is Man?’ International Reformed Bulletin 3 (6): 4-16.
1960. In the Twilight of Western Thought: Studies in the Pretended of Philosophical Thought. Prebyterianand Reformed: Philadelphia. (Republished in 1972 by Craig Press, Nutley NJ).
1960f. “Christianity, Humanism and the European Future” Delta, Winter issue, pp. 39-41.
1964b. Sociology of Law and its Philosophical Foundations.
1964. “Center and Periphery: the Philosophy of the Law-Idea in a changing world”
Lecture at the annual meeting of the Association for Calvinistic Philosophy (Jan 1964).
1968a. Analogical Concepts. Translation of De analogische grondbegrippen der vakwetenschappen en hun betrekking tot de structuur van den menselijken ervaringshorizon. Mededelinen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie vang
Wetenschappen, afd. Letterkunde, New series, Volume 17, No.6 (Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij , 1954)
1966 [1954f]. The secularization of science. (Translated by Robert D. Knudsen.) International Reformed Bulletin 9: 2-18.
1968. The Christian Idea of the State (Translated by John Kraay) (The Craig Press, Nutley NJ)
1970. Reconstruction and Reformation.
1971. Cornelius van Til and the transcendental critique of theoretical thought. Jerusalem and Athens: critical Discussion on the theology and Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til (with a response by Van Til) Philadelphia. Also available on the Van Til CD.
1971. Sociology and law and its philosophical foundations. Truth and Reality: Essays Dedicated to H G Stoker Braamfontein.
1976. The Epistemo-Logical Gegenstand-Relation and the Logical Subject-Object-Relation. Philosophia Reformata, 41(1-2): 1-8.
1979a. Roots of Western Culture: Pagan, Secular and Christian Options. Wedge: Toronto.
1979. The problem of the relationship of nature and grace in the Calvinistic law-idea. Anakainosis 1(4): 13-15.
1983a. “The limits to state interference in the world of enterprise (as seen from a Biblical perspective).” Address to Patrimonium, local Amsterdam, 17 April 1931. In Journal of Christian Reconstruction 10(1) (1983): 115–127.
1986. A Christian Theory of Social Institutions. The Herman Dooyeweerd Foundation: La Jolla CA.
2013. Kuyper’s Philosophy of Science. In Steve Bishop and John Kok (ed.) On Kuyper: A Collection of Readings on the Life, Work & Legacy of Abraham Kuyper (Sioux Center: Dordt Press, 2013), pp. 153-177. Original as “Kuypers wetenschapsleer.” Philosophia Reformata (1939) 4: 193-232.
2018. The Dilemma for Christian Philosophical Thought and the Critical Character of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea. Philosophia Reformata, 83(2), 267-278. [Translation of “Het dilemma voor het christelijk wijsgeerig denken en het critisch karakter van de wijsbegeerte der wetsidee” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1936), Philosophia Reformata 1 (1), pp. 3–16]
2020. “The Theory of Analogy in Thomistic Philosophy and in the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea,” Philosophia Reformata 85(1): 91–107. [Translation of “De leer der analogie in de thomistische wijsbegeerte en in de wijsbegeerte der wetsidee” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1942), Philosophia Reformata 7 (1–2), pp. 47–57.]
2020. “The Four Basic Religious Themes in the Development of Philosophical Thinking in the West: A Contribution to the Determination of the Relation between Theoretical and Religious Dialectic,” Philosophia Reformata 86(1): 112–129. [Translation of “De vier religieuze grondthema’s in den ontwikkelingsgang van het wijsgeerig denken van het avondland” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1941), Philosophia Reformata 6 (4), pp. 161–179.]
2020. The Secularization of Science (Paideia Monographs), ed. Steven R. Martins. Jordan Station, Ont.: Paideia Press.
2020. The Analogical Concepts (Paideia Monographs) Jordan Station, Ont.: Paideia Press.
2022. “The Significance of the Philosophy of the Law Idea for the Theory of Human Society,” Philosophia Reformata 87(1): 108–121. [Translation of “De beteekenis van de wijsbegeerte der wetsidee voor de theorie der menschelijke samenleving” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1937), Philosophia Reformata 2 (2), pp. 99–116.]
2023. “Nontheoretical Presuppositions in Science and Scholarship: Critique of an Uncritical Critique,” Philosophia Reformata 88(1): 86–92. [Translation of “De niet-theoretische voor-oordeelen in de wetenschap: Critiek op een oncritische critiek” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1938), Philosophia Reformata 3 (4), pp. 193–201.]
2024. “The Transcendental Critique of Philosophical Thought and the Foundations of the Philosophical Community of Thought in the West,” Philosophia Reformata 89(1): 144–159. [Translation of “De transcendentale critiek van het wijsgeerig denken en de grondslagen van de wijsgeerige denkgemeenschap van het avondland” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1941), Philosophia Reformata 6 (1), pp. 1–20.]
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