New Critique

A Guide to Dooyeweerd's New Critique of Theoretical Thought

 

 

A New Critique of Theoretical Thought,

Volume 2: The General Theory of The Modal Spheres 

 

 


 

Details: 598pp. 2 parts. 10 chapters. 54 sub-parts. 

Publisher: Amsterdam: Uitgeverij H.J. Paris / Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1955.

Translators: David Hugh Freeman (Wilson College) and H. De Jongste (1st Christian Secondary School of Rotterdam).

  


 

Contents, (pp. v-xxvii).

Translator’s Preface, (p. xxix).

 


 

Part 1 – The General Theory of the Modal Spheres, (pp. 3 – 426).

 

Chapter 1 – The Functional Structure of the Modal Spheres, both in their Sovereignty Within their Own Orbit and in their Temporal Coherence of Meaning, (pp. 3 – 54, 6 parts).

 

Chapter 2 – The Modal Structures of Meaning, (pp. 55 – 180, 6 parts).

 

Chapter 3 – The Opening-Process in the Anticipatory Meaning-Structure of the Law-Spheres, (pp. 181 – 330, 8 parts).

 

Chapter 4 – The Universality of the Aspects Within their own Spheres and the Inter-Modal Disharmony in the Process of Disclosure on the Law-Side of the Law-Spheres, (pp. 331 – 365, 4 parts).

 

Chapter 5 – The Subject-Object Relation in the Modal Aspects, (pp. 366 – 413, 7 parts).

 

Chapter 6 – The Problem of Individuality Within the Modal Cadre of the Law-Spheres, (pp. 414 – 426, 3 parts).

 


 

Part II – The Epistemological Problem in the Light of the Cosmonomic Idea, (pp. 429 – 598).

 

Chapter 1 – Chapter 1, (pp. 429 – 465, 5 parts).

 

Chapter 2 – The Structure of the Inter-Modal Synthesis of Meaning and its Transcendental and Transcendent Pre-Requisites, (pp. 466 – 490, 4 parts).

 

Chapter 3 – The Problem Regarding the Possibility of the Synthesis of Meaning in the So-Called Critical Transcendental Philosophy of Kant, (pp. 491 – 541, 6 parts).

 

Chapter 4 – The Structural Horizon of Human Experience and of Created ‘Earthly Reality’, (pp. 542 – 598, 5 parts).