Professors Emeriti and Others
Adriaan Peperzak, PhD
Title/s: Professor Emeritus
Email: apeperz@luc.edu
External Webpage: http://luc.edu/philosophy/faculty_peperzak_hom.shtml
About
Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak was born in Java (Indonesia) as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy in Venraai and theology in Alverna and Weert (The Netherlands). He obtained a licentiate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Louvain University (Belgium) and a PhD in the Humanities at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). His doctoral dissertation, Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde (director: Paul Ricoeur), was published in 1960 and republished in 1969.
Peperzak taught at various universities of The Netherlands (including those of Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Nijmegen) and, as visiting professor, at the universities of Bandung (Indonesia), Mallorca (Spain), the Scuola Normale of Pisa (Italia), the Istituto degli Studi Filosofici of Naples (Italia), the University of Nice (France), Duquesne University (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania State University (State College), Boston College, Loyola University Chicago, Villanova University, and Stanford University, and he lectured at many others. From 1991 he was the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago.
His research in the history of philosophy focused on Hegel (six books and numerous articles) and Emmanuel Levinas (two books and three others edited). He also published on Plato, Aristotle, Bonaventura, Descartes, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, and on thematic questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of religion.
On Hegel he wrote Philosophy and Politics; Selbsterkenntnis des Absoluten: Grund-linien der Hegelschen Philosophie des Geistes; Hegels praktische Philosophie; and Modern Freedom, Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy. On Levinas he published To the Other: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; and Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Some of his more personal books are Before Ethics; Faith in Reason; Platonic Transformations; The Quest for Meaning; Elements of Ethics; and Philosophy between Faith and Theology.
Besides Dutch, he speaks and writes English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian; he also reads ancient Greek, Latin and Portuguese.
Degrees
University of Paris-Sorbonne
Research Interests
Ethics and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphilosophy, Hegel, French phenomenology, Levinas