Background
Hollak, Jan was born on July 20, 1915 in Zwolle, The Netherlands.
Hollak, Jan was born on July 20, 1915 in Zwolle, The Netherlands.
Social Sciences, Amsterdam University. Philosophy, Universities of Amsterdam, Ghent and Louvain.
Assistant and Lecturer in Philosophy, Amsterdam University, 1946-1965. Professor in the History of Modern Philosophy, Catholic University of Nijmegen, 1965 -86.
The metaphysical style of Hollak's philosophy attracted many students and followers. With all his knowledge of the social sciences he applied Hegelian and Marxian ideas to them, and proposed many original ideas in the field of the philosophy of technology and culture. Man is not only a ‘being within the world’ but also a transcendental being, ‘a spirit within the world'. In cybernetics the technical idea and also the Hegelian idea are appearing and becoming objective. Man is forced to consider himself as the transcendental power.