Jacob Klapwijk pages
Jacob Klapwijk (born 24 October 1933 in Dronrijp) studied under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. In 1974, he was awarded a personal chair, a Chair of History of Modern Philosophy, at the Free University. He was later awarded a Chair in Systematic Philosophy. He is the author of a number of books in Dutch, German and English including Purpose in the Living World? Creation and Emergent Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming), which offers a philosophical analysis of the relation of evolutionary biology to religion, and addresses the question of whether the evolution of life is exclusively a matter of chance and blind fortune or is better understood as including the notion of purpose. He proposes to bridge the gap via the idea of ‘emergent evolution.’ In this theory the process of evolution has an emergent or innovative character resulting in a living world of ingenious, multifaceted complexity.
Jaap's own website can be accessed here.
Books
2009. Heeft de evolutie een doel? Over schepping en emergente evolutie, Kampen: Kok, 2009. 
2008. Purpose in the Living World? Creation and Emergent Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Forthcoming. Reason Reversed? The Neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School and the Dialectic of Enlightenment [A translation of Dialektik der Verlichting: Een Verkenning in het Neomarxisme van de Frankfurter Schule Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam, 1976 and 1977]
1996. Transformationele filosofie: Cultuurpolitieke ideeën en de kracht van een inspiratie, Kampen: Kok/Agora, 1996.
[This book is still obtainable: Centrum Reformatorische Wijsbegeerte, Soest.]
1991. Bringing into Captivity every Thought: Capita Selecta in the History of Christian Evaluations of Non-Christian Philosophy, J. Klapwijk, S. Griffioen, G. Groenewoud (eds.), Lanham: University Press of America, 1991.
1991. Philosophische Kritik und göttliche Offenbarung: Über Religionskritik, Kulturkritik, Gesellschaftskritik und Vernunftkritik im modernen Denken, Riehen (Switzerland): Immanuel-Verlag, 1991.
1987. Kijken naar kopstukken, Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1987.
1987. De eerste en tweede geschiedenis: Nagelaten geschriften van Meijer C. Smit, J. Klapwijk (ed.), Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1987.
1986 Oriëntatie in de nieuwe filosofie, Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1986, 1987 (2nd edn), 1995 (3rd edn).
1985. Philosophien im Widerstreit: Zur Philosophie von Dilthey, Heidegger, James, Wittgenstein und Marcuse, Asslar: Verlag Schulte+Gerth, Riehen (Switzerland): Immanuel-Verlag, 1985.
1976. Vrede met de rede? Over het vraagstuk van rede en religie, van autonomie en heil, J. Klapwijk, S. Griffioen, G. Groenewoud (eds.), Assen/Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1976.
1976. Dialektiek der verlichting: Een verkenning in het neomarxisme van de Frankfurter Schule, Assen/Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1976, 1977 (2nd edn)
Translation: Reason Reversed? The Neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt School and the Dialectic of Enlightenment [forthcoming]
1970. Tussen historisme en relativisme: Een studie over de dynamiek van het historisme en de wijsgerige ontwikkelingsgang van Ernst Troeltsch, Assen: Van Gorcum, 1970, doctoral dissertation, cum laude, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Translation: Between Historicism and Relativism: The Dynamics of Historicism and the Philosophical Development of Ernst Troeltsch. [The text is in a process of revision and translation.]
Articles: English titles
2009. Commemoration: On the First and Second History in, Philosophia Reformata 73 (2009), pp. 48-70.
1994. Pluralism of Norms and Values: On the Claim and Reception of the Universal, Philosophia Reformata 59 (1994), pp. 158-192.
1991. John Calvin (1509-1564), in: J. Klapwijk, S. Griffioen and G. Groenewoud (eds.), Bringing into Captivity every Thought (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991), pp.123-142.
1991. Antithesis and Common Grace, in: J. Klapwijk , S. Griffioen and G. Groenewoud (eds.), Bringing into Captivity every Thought (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991), pp.169-190.
1991. Epilogue: The Idea of Transformational Philosophy, in: J. Klapwijk et al. (eds.), Bringing into Captivity every Thought (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991), pp.241-266.
1989. On Worldviews and Philosophy, in: P.A. Marshall, S. Griffioen and R. J. Mouw (eds.) Stained Glass: Worldviews and Social Science, (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989), pp. 41-55.
1987. Reformational Philosophy on the Boundary between the Past and the Future, in: Philosophia Reformata 52 (1987), pp. 101-134.
1986. Antithesis, Synthesis, and the Idea of Transformational Philosophy, in: Philosophia Reformata 51 (1986), pp. 138-154.
1985. The Universal in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Hermeneutic Philosophy, in: Philosophia Reformata 50 (1985), pp. 119-129.
1983. Rationality in the Dutch Neo-Calvinist Tradition, in: H. Hart, J. van der Hoeven, N. Wolterstorff (eds.), Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition (Boston: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 93-111.
1981. Science and Social Responsibility in Neo-Marxist and Christian Perspective, in: P. Blokhuis et al. (eds.), Wetenschap, wijsheid, filosoferen: Opstellen aangeboden aan Hendrik van Riessen (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1981), pp. 75-98.
1980. The Struggle for a Christian Philosophy: Another Look at Dooyeweerd, in: The Reformed Journal 30,2 (1980), pp. 12-15.
1980. Dooyeweerd's Christian Philosophy: Antithesis and Critique, in: The Reformed Journal 30,3 (1980), pp. 20-24.
1976. Bibliography, in: J.P. Clayton, Ernst Troeltsch and the Future of Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), pp. 196-214.
1973. Calvin and Neo-Calvinism on Non-Christian Philosophy, in: The Idea of a Christian Philosophy, Philosophia Reformata 38 (1973), pp. 43-61.
