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

Historian Cor Hermans has written a fascinating and highly readable, though rather sizeable, book on social Darwinian thought as it developed from the second half of the nineteenth century onward, mainly under the influence of the work of Darwin himself.

Paul Schnabel, NRC Handelsblad, 1-2 November, 2003