page_title: Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
hierarchical_section_title: Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Portretfoto van de hoogleraar Peperzak te Delft
context_page_description: Adriaan Theodoor Basilius Peperzak is a Dutch educator, editor and author. A member of the board of editors for Fordham University Press series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, he has since 1991 been the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Before, he was a professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, and at Utrecht University for several years.
  Peperzak was born on the island of Java as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in Venray, and theology in La Verna and Weert. He obtained a licentiate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain and a Ph.D. in the Humanities at the University of Paris in Paris. His Ph.D. dissertation Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde, was published in 1960 and republished in 1969.
  His research in the history of philosophy has focused on Hegel and Emmanuel Levinas. He also published on Plato, Aristotle, Bonaventure, Descartes, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, and on thematic questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
context_section_description: Adriaan Theodoor Basilius (Ad) Peperzak (born 3 July 1929) is a Dutch educator, editor and author. A member of the board of editors for Fordham University Press series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, he has since 1991 been the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Before, he was a professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Department of Metaphysics & Epistemology), and at Utrecht University (History of Modern Philosophy) for several years.  
  Peperzak was born on the island of Java (Indonesia) as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in Venray, and theology in La Verna and Weert (in the Netherlands). He obtained a licentiate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D. in the Humanities at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) in Paris. His Ph.D. dissertation Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde (director: Paul Ricoeur), was published in 1960 and republished in 1969.
  His research in the history of philosophy has focused on Hegel (six books and numerous articles) and Emmanuel Levinas (two books and three others edited). He also published on Plato, Aristotle, Bonaventure, Descartes, Heidegger, and Ricoeur, and on thematic questions in ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
caption: Professor Peperzak in 1967
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