Jaap Kruithof
Belgian writer and philosopher
Died when: 79 years 74 days (950 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Jaap Kruithof (Berchem, 13 December 1929 - Boechout, 25 February 2009) was a Belgian philosopher and writer.His parents were Dutch Protestants.He took degrees in history, law and philosophy in Ghent, and in Paris.
Then he earned a Ph.D. on Hegel's ontology, with honours.Since the 1960s he was, along with Etienne Vermeersch and Leo Apostel, one of the icons of the Ghent University and the Flemish intelligentsia in general.
He was also a musician (organist) and taught the sociology of music at the Royal Music Conservatory in Antwerp.Throughout his life, Kruithof was an unflinching debunker of capitalism; ideologically, he sympathised with revolutionary socialism, humanitarian movements and ecocentrism.
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