Welcome

The modern website is a tool of self-presentation. This one is no exception. You will find in this place my CV, basic information on my books and other publications, as well as references to reviews, interviews and public activities. The ‘News’ blog features a variety of comments, questioning the obvious, highlighting the wonderful, and adding principles to the chaotic. The ‘Inspiration’ blog consists of four themes.

The dissertation of Mr Hermans is a brave crusade against the pulverized idea of social Darwinism that arose in the course of time.

Enne Koops in Historisch Tijdschrift Groniek, Groningen University, 2004

The historian Cor Hermans wrote a bulky, but highly readable and interesting thesis on social Darwinism, in which he paid most attention to what connected the social Darwinists. This was, most of all, the high value they set on the concepts of selection and, joined to it, elimination: the disposal of the socially weak.

Nederlands Dagblad, 13 February, 2004