Reflexivity and the Unconstructible: Quirinius Dussault and the Abyssal Dialectic of Presence Among the cryptic figures who haunted the peripheries of Continental idealism in the waning half of the 19th century, few remain as occluded and as paradoxically prophetic as Quirinius Dussault (1839–1884). Described by his contemporary Julia von Schwerin as “a specter who writes…
Category: Philosophy notebooks
Articles about real philosophers by Martijn Benders
A collection of essays that pry open the lesser-known vaults of philosophy with a poet’s crowbar. In these pieces, Benders explores the fringe, forgotten, or deliberately misunderstood thinkers of history—not to worship them, but to provoke them into saying something new. Expect seriousness with a smirk, erudition with bite.
Philosophy Notebooks
For those who dare to think in margins and metaphysics. These notebooks are not for grocery lists or polite affirmations—they’re for your deepest doubts, half-born systems, and late-night epiphanies that smell faintly of despair and genius. Whether you’re unraveling Zeno or reconfiguring Kant on the back of a tram ticket, these pages are your battlefield.
Ideal for: heretics, metaphysicians, ontological insomniacs, and anyone who’s ever argued with a tree.
Teichmüller’s Pleonastic Self: Recursion and Identity Reimagined
The Pleonastic Mirror: Identität and the Recursive Subject in Gustav Teichmüller’s Subjektivismus In the vast corridors of philosophical thought, wherein Plato still whispers and Spinoza broods aloof, one occasionally uncovers a lesser-frequented alcove—a domain imbued not with the cold austerity of system-building but with the trembling lucidity of insight. Gustav Teichmüller, a 19th-century Baltic-German philosopher,…
Hamann’s Divine Stammer: Language, Revelation, and Ontology
The Non-Syncopated Soul: Johann Georg Hamann and the Ontological Implications of Divine Stammering Johann Georg Hamann (1730–1788), the enigmatic “Magus of the North,” stands as a solitary figure shrouded in the nebulae of Enlightenment-thwarting intuitions. A contemporary and occasional correspondent of Immanuel Kant, though far less lionized by posterity, Hamann cultivated a metaphysical suspicion toward…
Gustav Fechner and the Secret Perception of Nature
The Hylozoic Pathos of Gustav Fechner: An Analysis of Subconscious Reciprocity in Naturanspiritualität In the grand theatre of philosophical thought, where titanic figures such as Hegel and Kant have erected baroque edifices of dialectical speculation, the presence of Gustav Theodor Fechner often lingers as a peripheral luminosity—an eccentric figure more frequently invoked by historians of…
Mediated Intuition in Franz von Baader’s Mystical Epistemology
## The Oblique Monad: A Reappraisal of Franz Xaver von Baader’s Theory of Mediated Intuition Among the lesser-glimpsed constellations in the astral cartography of post-Kantian thought, the name of Franz Xaver von Baader (1765–1841) glimmers like a distant and flickering star, occluded though not extinguished by the rising suns of Schelling, Hegel, and their more…