Essays, Chapters, and Papers by Lambert Zuidervaart
Most Recent Publications
“Hope for Truth in a Post-Truth World.” Blog post on the SUNY Press website about my book Adorno, Heidegger, and the Politics of Truth, published January 8, 2024.
“Adorno, Foucault, and Feminist Theory: The Politics of Truth.” In Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School, edited by Christine A. Payne and Jeremiah Morelock, 133-161. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
“Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger: The Temporality of Truth.” In The Oxford Handbook of Adorno, edited by Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Imagination, Art, and Civil Society: Re-envisioning Reformational Aesthetics.” In The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective, edited by Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, 240-66. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2024.
“Redemptive Art Criticism.” In The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective, edited by Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, 267-74. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2024.
This rest of this page lists articles and a few papers in five overlapping groups:
The Idea of Truth
Theodor Adorno and Critical Theory
Reformational Philosophy
Arts, Politics, and Culture
Spirituality and Religion
Items freely available online appear first in each group. Many others are available at my ResearchGate site. Additional publications are listed in the CV at my ICS faculty page.
The Idea of Truth
“Truth, Resistance, and Societal Evil.” Essay published online in iai News, a forum hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas (UK), August 16, 2017.
Image credit: © Douglas Gordon / Photos: © Glasgow Life 2014
“Synthetic Evidence and Objective Identity: The Contemporary Significance of Early Husserl’s Conception of Truth.” European Journal of Philosophy 26, no. 1 (March 2018): 122-44; doi: 10.1111/ejop.12192.
“Holistic Alethic Pluralism: A Reformational Research Program.” Philosophia Reformata 81, no. 2 (2016): 156-78.
“Propositional and Existential Truth in Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 20, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 150-80.
“How Not to Be an Anti-Realist: Habermas, Truth, and Justification.” Philosophia Reformata 77 (2012): 1-18.
“Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth.” Philosophia Reformata 74 (2009): 1-20.
“Truth Matters: Heidegger and Horkheimer in Dialectical Disclosure.” Telos, no. 145 (Winter 2008): 131-60.
“If I Had a Hammer: Truth in Heidegger’s Being and Time.” In The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith, ed. James K. A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, 73-97. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004.
Theodor Adorno and Critical Theory
“Theodor W. Adorno: Exposing Capitalism’s Blind Domination.” Published in the Times Literary Supplement online series Footnotes to Plato, August 2019.
“Theodor W. Adorno.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta, ed.
“Adorno, Foucault, and Feminist Theory: The Politics of Truth.” In Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School, edited by Christine Payne and Jeremiah Morelock, 133-161. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
“Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger: The Temporality of Truth.” In The Oxford Handbook of Adorno, edited by Henry Pickford and Martin Shuster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
“‘Weh spricht vergeh’: Die unzeitgemässe Aktualität von Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie.” In Eros und Erkenntnis: 50 Jahre “Ästhetische Theorie,” edited by Martin Endres, Axel Pichler, and Claus Zittel, 193-202. Berlin: Walter DeGruyter, 2019.
“History and Transcendence in Adorno’s Idea of Truth.” In The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, ed. Peter Gordon, Espen Hammer, and Axel Honneth, 121-34. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Surplus beyond the Subject: Truth in Adorno’s Critique of Husserl and Heidegger.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 22, no. 1 (Spring 2018), 123-40.
“Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund: Survey of Thought.” In Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Volume 1. Ed. Michael Kelly. 6 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Theodor Adorno.” Online in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Ed. Duncan Pritchard. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Foreword to Jacob Klapwijk, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Critical Theory and the Messianic Light, trans. C. L. Yallop and P. M. Yallop, vii-x. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010.
“Ethical Turns: Adorno Defended against His Devotees.” Symposium 13 (Spring 2009) 22-39.
“Alienated Masterpiece: Adorno’s Contribution to a Transformative Social Theory.” In After Modernity? Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-enchantment of the World, ed. James K. A. Smith, 99-120. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.
“Truth and Authentication: Heidegger and Adorno in Reverse.” In Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions, ed. Iain Macdonald and Krzysztof Ziarek, 22-46. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.
“Metaphysics after Auschwitz: Suffering and Hope in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics.” In Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays, ed. Donald Burke et al., 133-62. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
“Feminist Politics and the Culture Industry: Adorno’s Critique Revisited.” In Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno, ed. Renée Heberle, 257-76. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Republished in Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Critical Visions, Creative Engagements. Ed. L. Ryan Musgrave. New York: Springer, 2022.
“Imaginative Disclosure: Adorno, Habermas, and Artistic Truth.” Symposium 8 (Fall 2004): 519-48.
“Autonomy, Negativity, and Illusory Transgression: Menke’s Deconstruction of Adorno’s Aesthetics.” Philosophy Today, SPEP Supplement 1999, pp. 154-68.
“Introduction.” In The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, ed. Tom Huhn and Lambert Zuidervaart 1-28. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997.
“History, Art, and Truth: Wellmer’s Critique of Adorno.” In Dialectic and Narrative, ed. Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz, 197-212. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
“Contra-Diction: Adorno’s Philosophy of Discourse.” In The Philosophy of Discourse: The Rhetorical Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought, Vol. 1, ed. Chip Sills and George H. Jensen, 103-128. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, Boynton/Cook, 1992.
“The Social Significance of Autonomous Art: Adorno and Bürger.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 61-77.
“Realism, Modernism, and the Empty Chair.” In Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique, ed. Douglas Kellner, 203-227. Washington, DC: Maisonneuve Press, 1989.
“Methodological Shadowboxing in Marxist Aesthetics: Lukács and Adorno.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 11 (1988)1-2: 85-113.
“Artistic Truth in a False Society: Reflections on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory.” In Philosophy and Culture: Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 2, pp. 271-76. Ed. Venant Cauchy. Montréal: Éditions Montmorency, 1988.
“Reconciliation under Duress? Realism in Our Time Revisited.” In George Lukács and His World: A Reassessment, ed. Ernst Joós, 117-48. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.
“The Artefactuality of Autonomous Art: Kant and Adorno.” In The Reasons of Art: Artworks and the Transformations of Philosophy, ed. Peter J. McCormick, 256-62. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1986.
Reformational Philosophy
“Reflections on Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation.” Five posts in response to an online Ground Motive Symposium, ICS, Toronto, May 2016: “Deep Gratitude,” “Reformational Social Philosophy,” “Toward a New Politics,” “Philosophy, Art, and Religion,” and “Dooyeweerd, Truth, and the Reformational Tradition.”
“On Being a Reformational Philosopher: Spirituality, Religion, and the Call to Love.” Invited lecture, Scripture, Faith, and Scholarship seminar, ICS, November 14, 2014. Posted online at the ICS Institutional Repository.
“Living at the Crossroads: Ethical Scholarship and the Common Good.” Inaugural Address as founding Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics, Faculty Club, University of Toronto, October 24, 2011. Posted online at the ICS Institutional Repository.
“After Dooyeweerd: Truth in Reformational Philosophy.” 2008. Posted online at the ICS Institutional Repository.
“The Great Turning Point: Religion and Rationality in Dooyeweerd’s Transcendental Critique.” Faith and Philosophy 21 (January 2004): 65-89. Posted online at the ICS Institutional Repository.
“Earth’s Lament: Suffering, Hope, and Wisdom.” Inaugural Lecture, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, November 21, 2003. Posted online at the ICS Institutional Repository.
“Imagination, Art, and Civil Society: Re-envisioning Reformational Aesthetics.” In The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective, edited by Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, 240-66. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2024.
“Redemptive Art Criticism.” In The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective, edited by Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, 267-74. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2024.
“Hendrik Hart: Spirited Lover of Truth.” ICS Perspective 54, no. 2 (Fall 2020): 6-7.
“Social Domains of Knowledge: Technology, Art, and Religion.” Philosophia Reformata 84, no. 1 (2019): 79-101.
“Distantial Ways of Knowing: Doug Blomberg’s Proposal for a Reformational Epistemology.” Philosophia Reformata 84, no. 1 (2019): 58-78.
“Macrostructures and Societal Principles: An Architectonic Critique.” In The Future of Creation Order, Vol. 2: Order Among Humans: Humanities, Social Science and Normative Practices, ed. Govert J. Buijs and Annette K. Mosher, 153-77. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018.
“Philosophy, Truth, and the Wisdom of Love.” Christian Scholar’s Review 48, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 31-43.
“Truth and Goodness Intersect.” ICS Perspective 48, no. 2 (September 2014): 8-9.
“Introduction: (Un)Timely Voyage: Calvin Seerveld’s Normative Aesthetics.” In Calvin Seerveld, Normative Aesthetics, ed. John H. Kok, pp. xiii-xviii. Sioux Center, IA: Dordt College Press, 2014.
“Q+A: Do We Do Things Differently since 9/11?” Interview conducted by Daryl Kinsman with Lambert Zuidervaart, ICS Perspective 45, no. 2 (October 2011): 6-7.
“Q+A: What Is the Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics?” Interview conducted by Daryl Kinsman with Lambert Zuidervaart and Bob Sweetman, ICS Perspective 45, no. 1 (February 2011): 4-5.
“Research Matters.” ICS Perspective 44, no. 2 (October 2010): 1-2.
“Sabbaticals: Blessed Work.” ICS Perspective 43, no. 1 (February 2009): 6-7.
“Dooyeweerd’s Conception of Truth: Exposition and Critique.” Philosophia Reformata 73 (2008): 170-89.
“Good Cities, or Cities of the Good? Radical Augustinians, Societal Structures, and Normative Critique.” In Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition: Creation, Covenant, and Participation, ed. James K. A. Smith and James H. Olthuis, 135-49. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Press, 2005.
“A Tradition Transfigured: Art and Culture in Reformational Aesthetics.” Faith and Philosophy 21 (July 2004): 381-92.
“Artistic Truth, Linguistically Turned: Variations on a Theme from Adorno, Habermas, and Hart.” In Philosophy as Responsibility: A Celebration of Hendrik Hart’s Contribution to the Discipline, ed. Ronald A. Kuipers and Janet Catherina Wesselius, 129-49. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.
“An Interview with Lambert Zuidervaart.” ICS Perspective 36, no. 3 (September 2002): 6-7.
“Deep Water from the Kuyperian Well: The Future of Higher Education.” Perspectives, 13, no. 3 (March 1998): 7-11.
“Transforming Aesthetics: Reflections on the Work of Calvin G. Seerveld.” In Pledges of Jubilee, pp. 1-22. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.
“Fantastic Things: Critical Notes Toward a Social Ontology of the Arts.” Philosophia Reformata 60 (1995): 37-54.
“Service Learning.” Panel discussion, published in the Calvin College Dialogue 25, no. 5 (May 1993): 14-21.
“Response to Johan van der Hoeven’s ‘Development in the Light of Encounter.’” In Norm and Context in the Social Sciences, ed. Sander Griffioen and Jan Verhoogt, 37-42. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1990.
“Existence, Nomic Conditions, and God: Issues in Hendrik Hart’s Ontology.” Philosophia Reformata 50 (1985) 1: 47-65.
“The Legacy of Scholarly Renewal.” Anakainosis 2, no. 2 (December 1979): 1-3.
“Explorations into a Philosophical Aesthetics.” AACS Academic Paper. Toronto: ICS, 1977.
Arts, Politics, and Culture
“Art in Public: An Alternative Case for Government Arts Funding.” Published online in The Other Journal, Issue 15, July 3, 2009.
“Short Circuits and Market Failure: Theories of the Civic Sector.” In The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 42 (1998): 187-193.
“Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular Sublime.” In Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier, ed. John Caruana and Mark Cauchi, 47-67. Albany: SUNY Press, 2018.
“Creating a Disturbance: Art, Social Ethics, and Relational Autonomy.” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 90, no. 4 (2015): 235-46.
“A Different Tenor: Songs of Love and Sorrow—Re-Engaging the Social Ethics of Music.” Panel discussion participant and co-editor, with Rebekah Smick. Toronto Journal of Theology 27 (2011): 87-106.
“‘Aesthetic Ideas’ and the Role of Art in Kant’s Ethical Hermeneutics.” In Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment: Critical Essays, ed. Paul Guyer, 199-208. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
“Cultural Paths and Aesthetic Signs: A Critical Hermeneutics of Aesthetic Validity.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 29 (2003): 315-40.
“Art, Truth and Vocation: Validity and Disclosure in Heidegger’s Anti-Aesthetics.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 28 (2002): 153-72.
“Postmodern Arts and the Birth of a Democratic Culture.” In The Arts, Community and Cultural Democracy, 15-39. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
“Creative Border Crossing in New Public Culture.” In Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere, ed. Susan VanZanten Gallagher and Mark D. Walhout, 206-224. London: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
“Voorhoede noch randverschijnsel: Hedendaagse kunst en de steun van de samenleving.” Beweging 60 (December 1996): 150-53. (Original title: “Leaving the Margins: Public Funding for Contemporary Arts.” Dutch translation by Heleen Keizer.)
“The Politics of Aesthetic Distance.” In Advocacy in the Classroom, ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks, 232-37. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
“Artistieke authenticiteit en sociale verantwoordelijkheid: creatieve spanning in de hedendaagse kunst.” In Levensecht en bescheiden: Essays over authenticiteit, ed. Atie Th. Brüggemann-Kruijff, Henk G. Geertsema, and Mariëtte F. Willemsen, 121-37. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1998. (Original title: “Artistic Authenticity and Social Responsibility: Creative Tension in Contemporary Arts.” Dutch translation by Marten de Jong.)
“Aesthetics.” In New Dictionary of Theology, pp. 6-8. Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988.
“Talking with Prometheus.” Calvin College Dialogue 20, no. 2 (December 1987): 10-22. Group interview with Bruce Cockburn, organized and edited with the assistance of students Dennis Epplett and Rachel Verburg.
“Aboard a Gull-Chased Ship.” Review of Bruce Cockburn, The Banner, April 28, 1986, p. 18.
“The Study of Arts for Serviceable Insight.” Pro Rege 11, no. 3 (March 1983): 20-24.
“Toward a Shared Understanding of the Arts.” Pro Rege 11, no. 2 (December 1982): 18-25.
“Music.” In Shaping School Curriculum, ed. G. J. Steensma and H. W. Van Brummelen, 94-104. Terre Haute, IN: Signal, 1977.
“Muzak: The Blah Murmurs of Background Music.” Channel Magazine (February 1974).
Spirituality and Religion
“Earth’s Lament: Suffering, Hope, and Wisdom.” Published online in The Other Journal, issue no. 14 on Death and Dying, January 27, 2009.
“Religion in Public: Passages from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.” University of Toronto Journal for Jewish Thought 1 (April 2010).
Photo credit: Earth’s Lament (2003), by Joyce A. Recker. Photograph by Patty Watteyne.
“Remember Mercy.” Meditation on Habakkuk 3:2, in Sharing the Journey: Lent 2024 Daily Reflections (Grand Rapids: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2024).
“Returning Home.” Meditation on Isaiah 42:1-9, in Create in Me a Clean Heart: Lenten Devotional 2022 (Grand Rapids: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2022), 41.
“Greeks and Glory.” Meditation on John 12:20-33, in Life out of Death: Lenten Devotional 2018 (Grand Rapids: Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2018), 32.
“Critical Transformations: Macrostructures, Religion, and Critique.” Critical Research on Religion 1, no. 3 (2013): 243-69.
“Art, Religion, and the Sublime: After Hegel.” The Owl of Minerva 44, no. 1-2 (2012-13): 119-42.
“Holy Worldliness.” The Banner, December 12, 1988, pp. 10-11.