In the Twilight of
Back cover info:
"This compact volume contains
a series of lectures given by Dooyeweerd during his lecture tour throughout the
United States and Canada in 1959. These lectures express the core essense of Dooyeweerd’s four volume
philosophical work A New Critique of
Philosophical Thought. In a masterful summary Dooyeweerd first tackles the
central dogma of the modern era, namely the dogma of the autonomy of
theoretical thought. While this dogma has been challenged in many ways, both in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, none of these challenges have made
the dogma a truly critical question. If they had, the claims for the constant
centrality of rational thought from the ancient Greeks to medieval Thomistic
scholasticism and on to both the modern and post-modern humanist expressions
would be exposed as possessing radically different presuppositions which
transcend the confines of theoretical thought. By subjecting this dogma to a
truly radical critique Dooyeweerd demonstrates that all theoretical thought is
grounded upon religious presuppositions that exceed the boundaries of both
philosophy and theology, and which need to be clearly exposed and articulated
if theoretical thought is to truly understand its own nature. He similarly
demonstrates how such a critique provides the basis for the development of a
Christian philosophy that can challenge historicism and establish a fruitful
dialogue with non-Christian thought."
