Dimitri F. Crooijmans

Actual Spirit

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Hi, I’m Dimitri. I write about philosophy, and what it has to say about itself, science and politics today. Along the way there are stories, songs and conversations.

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3 September 2026 · 23 min read

Trauma

How do we work through symptoms arising from trauma? Which is more effective, the talking cure, or bodywork?

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Everyone knows perfection is absurd

Spinoza, Descartes and why reality is the perfect absurdity.

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Communisation in Absolute Capitalism

On communism and capital.

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Introduction To The Parallax View

On dialectical materialism.
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2026

  1. Trauma 3 Sep · 23 min read
  2. A Missed Encounter How we arrived in Salzburg 13 Jul · 6 min read
  3. Introduction To The Parallax View Slovenian School Reading Group: Starting Febuary 16th 22 Jan · 7 min read

2025

  1. Communisation in Absolute Capitalism Real Speculations versus Bad Speculation 27 Jun · 90 min read
  2. The Slovenian School Reading Group Starting 22nd of January at Philosophy Portal 16 Jan · 8 min read
  3. Special Announcement & To Live Philosophically Slovenian School Reading Group & Transcript Of A Fragment On Philosophical Life 6 Jan · 7 min read

2024

  1. Everyone knows perfection is absurd Because it is both impossible and necessary 17 Dec · 37 min read
  2. The Refusal To Enjoy A disembodied case for the future 18 Nov · 19 min read
  3. Enlightenment A Short Story 30 Sep · 18 min read
  4. Ravin New single dropped: tribute to Raven, diss to Walt Right 11 Sep · 2 min read
  5. Only Free Will is Thoughtful The right to self-determination 12 Aug · 17 min read
  6. Who can Philosophize? Or: Why there's no such thing as non-aesthetic philosophy 14 Jan · 11 min read

2023

  1. How to Regrow the Soul's Wings From the fall to the flight of the Soul, piloted by the intellect, the Soul's internal eye. 1 Oct · 21 min read
  2. The "I" as a Funny Circle Inspired by my reading of specific passages in the Science of Logic, in which Hegel writes on the concept, or the "I", and critiques Kant for his inability to hold fast to its funny movement. 27 Aug · 27 min read

2022

  1. The Mystical is Rational Mysticism and Philosophy are means by which we express contact with the Absolute, and although the two traditions may not seem commensurable, Hegel claims his own philosophy is a type of mysticism. 19 Dec · 7 min read
  2. Spiritual Practice: The Forward Return To The Self Here is a brief account of the slippery elusiveness of the contradictory whole apropos Spirit, language, negativity and transformation. 29 Apr · 5 min read
  3. Spirituele Praktijk: De Voorwaartse Wederkeer Naar Het Zelf Hier volgt een korte uiteenzetting over de glibberige ongrijpbaarheid van het tegensprekende geheel in zelf-verwerkelijking, taal, negativiteit en transformatie. 9 Apr · 3 min read
  4. The Dialectic of the 'I' Inspired by section 508 in the Phenomenology of Spirit. Located in the chapter on Spirit B. Self-alienated Spirit Culture 1. The world of self-alienated Spirit a. Culture and its realm of actuality. 24 Mar · 2 min read

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Dimitri F. Crooijmans writes Actual Spirit, a place for philosophy, art, science and politics.

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