Brandon Whitaker’s Reviews > A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Volume 1: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy > Status Update

Someone asked me what this book was about and I stammered for a while. "It's, uh... the nature of... theory.... and philosophy, and... it's kinda complicated." Since then, I have rehearsed an elevator pitch.

Dooyeweerd has a funny way of making it awkward that you ever liked any philosopher ever in the history of Western civilization. You like Aristotle? Apostate form-motive. Thought Leibniz was interesting? Humanistic science-ideal. Found Kant enlightening? Absolutization of the logical modal aspect. It will be a short list of thinkers who come out looking good.

This is going to be a long project. Currently trying (and failing) to remember how I was first introduced to Dooyeweerd -- whoever first pointed me this way set me down the path of what promises to become an area of primary philosophical interest for me for years to come. Give me five years -- either I will be an expert on Dooyeweerd's thought, or I will be buried under all these books.