Great ideas don’t just come in books, they come on pages. Pages that we don’t just turn, but re-turn to often. A well-worn book is, as it were, a reflection of the great ideas contained on the pages therein.
Transcendentalese is the common yet uncommon language of the philosophical attitude. In every age there is recurring terminology that forms a basis for philosophical discourse. Some are ordinary words troped of their spatio-temporal reference, applied to the world or human condition as such. Others emerge as neologisms where ordinary language falls short, often better left untranslated. Together these constitute a vocabulary that aims to articulate the whole of reality (more)
