Category: Philosophy notebooks

The Volitional Abyss: On the Notion of Desiring-That-One-Were-Not in Philipp Mainländer’s Ontology Among the fragments of German pessimism, the name Philipp Mainländer remains a shadow in a corridor already dimmed by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Born Philipp Batz, this tragic prophet of cosmic degeneration bequeathed to the world but a single volume before taking his own…

The Cryptomorphic Self: A Reappraisal of Gustav Teichmüller’s Concept of “Selbstheit” In the silent catacombs of neglected thought lies the prodigious corpus of Gustav Teichmüller (1832–1888), a thinker whose resonance with the deep organ-tones of metaphysical inquiry far exceeded the echo-chambers of his contemporaries. Though oft remembered for his ambitious vision of an ‘individualistic idealism,’…

On the Obscure Function of Hypobolic Negation in Marcel Janco’s Ontopoetics Among the lesser-pedestaled figures inhabiting the grotesque cathedral of twentieth-century speculative thought, one encounters the most curious émigré from pictorial semiotics to ontological abstraction: Marcel Janco, a Romanian-born Dadaist better remembered for architecture and painted tumult than for the frothy marginalia he appended to…

The Dialectic of the Non-Absolute: Pseudo-Burchard’s Subliminal Semiotics in the Marginal Notes to the Askeroth Codex In the shadowy margins of late medieval philosophical contemplations, wherein theology, mysticism, and semiotic acrobatics coalesced into obscure amalgamations, we find obligingly few consistent figures. And yet, there exists one most curious interlocutor—a man known to us only through…

The Mnemonic Architectonics of Jēkabs Osis: On the Phenomenological Integrity of Forgetting Among the minor currents submerged beneath the roiling torrents of modern idealism lies the bizarre, labyrinthine oeuvre of Latvian proto-phenomenologist Jēkabs Osis (1748–1812), whose principal work, *Konstrukcija Atmiņas Universā* (Constructing the Memory-Universal), remains mostly untranslated and criminally neglected, save for a few cryptic…

Silvanus Tertium and the Anaxial Fold: Reassessing Temporality through the Lense of Proto-Process Anti-Relationism Among the many minor heliotropes orbiting the Parmenidean sun of Western metaphysical inquiry, few burn as strangely as Silvanus Tertium, the 17th-century Catalan mystic-philosopher whose fragmentary manuscript, “Tractatus Anaxiotikos,” remained largely neglected until its partial translation by Arturo Maldonado in 1893….

The Dialectics of Divine Negation: A Reappraisal of Johannes Scotus Eriugena’s Emanative Ambiguity In the shadowy interstice betwixt Neoplatonic effulgence and Christian dogma stands Johannes Scotus Eriugena, the Irish savant of the ninth century whose erudition wove together the last luminous threads of Hellenic metaphysics with the speculative mysticism of early medieval theology. To deem…

The Hypostasis of the Temporal Gesture in the Thought of Gustav Teichmüller In the crowded antechamber of nineteenth-century philosophy, where the prevailing winds bore names like Hegel, Kant, and Schopenhauer, a whisper occasionally reaches us from the more penumbral corridors—such is the voice of Gustav Teichmüller (1832–1888), a philosopher whose thought, though less celebrated, pulses…

The Dialectics of Silence: Interstitial Negation in the Work of Max Stirner In the voluminous, oft-interpreted work of 19th-century German thinkers, Max Stirner—né Johann Kaspar Schmidt—remains an enigmatic figure whose textual elusiveness matches the anarchic premises of his singular tome, *Der Einzige und sein Eigentum* (commonly, *The Ego and Its Own*). While the mainstream grasp…

The Ontic Sigil: Paracelsus and the Veiled Referent of the Astral Imagination Among the many arcane corridors of early modern thought, the formidable figure of Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim—known to posterity as Paracelsus—resides like a brooding alchemical homunculus, half-forgotten in the ossuary of philosophical dazzlement. Though modern scholarship has pigeonholed Paracelsus primarily as a proto-chemist…

The Paradox of the Simultaneist Will in Ludwig Klages’ Biocentric Metaphysics Among the obscure luminaries that flicker on the periphery of early twentieth-century thought, Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) stands as a singular and problematic beacon, whose identificatory posture with the Dionysian spirit, and hostility towards the rationalist pathology of modern mankind, render him both a philosophical…

The Anterior Symbolism in Angelus Silesius’ Concept of Instasis In the ever-burgeoning annals of mystical philosophy, more attention is often tendered to the radiant peaks of Meister Eckhart or the cloudy abysses charted by Jakob Böhme than to the enigmatic brilliance of Angelus Silesius (1624–1677), the Silesian Christian mystic and epigrammatist. Niclaus of the Flaming…