Bankrupt Science Mr. De Casseres on the Victories of Pyrrhonism and Acatalepsy. To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Mr. Gallatin’s remarkable letter in this morning’s Sun wherein the general bankruptcy of all scientific speculation is pointed out is a straw which shows us the drift of a […]
Emmeline Pankhurst By Benjamin De Casseres ALL new movements are deadly. They are elemental. They are born of some sublime moral, intellectual or physical transgression. The renewers and renovators, the precursors of every renaissance, bring not peace, but a sword. War is as […]
In 1936 Benjamin DeCasseres took it upon himself to try to publish as much of his own work as he could. He paid for the printing himself through “Blackstone Publishers.” In the following three years he published 23 booklets resulting in over 1,200 pages of material.These booklets were bound into three volumes and released at The Works […]
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES1)This wonderful appreciation of Balzac originally appeared as a communication to the New York Sun, in which had been raging a literary battle as to the respective merits of Anthony Trollope and the master Frenchman. It is reprinted here because of its inspirational tone–its strength–its power of constructive analysis.–Editor TO compare […]
The Borrowed Mirror Benjamin De Casseres “What will other people think?” is the most cowardly phrase in use in society. Only weak men stand in fear of the censure of the neighborhood. Whatever is great in life brings down censure upon the head of the doer. A man who lives, […]
The Individualist Benjamin DeCasseres 5.5 x 8.5″, 8 pages, saddle-stiched STAND ALONE SA1180 Available from: Underworld Amusements This booklet serves as a polemic for individualism by way of introduction to Georges Palante. Through a series of quotations and from the Frenchman, followed by his own explication, DeCasseres expounds on his own ideas. This essay is the […]
DER GEIST, The Journal of Egoism from 1845 – 1945 VOLUME 3 NUMBER 1, ISSUE 3 Spring 2020 Paperback, 204 pages, fifteen dollars isbn 978-1944651169 issn 2639-5339 The newest issue of Der Geist, the journal of historical Egoism, is here. Rare and unpublished works from the first century of egoism-the philosophy of Max Stirner. from: Underworld Amusements or […]
Celebrating the 300th birthday of his relative Benedict Spinoza (1632 – 1677) saw Benjamin DeCasseres release two volumes about the man and his work. The first was Spinoza: Liberator of God and Man in 1933, and the second was Spinoza Against the Rabbis in 1937. This new edition combines them both for the first time, […]
The Boy of Bethlehem By Bio DeCasseres Introduction by Benjamin DeCasseres 6 x 9″, hardback STAND ALONE SA1131 Available from Underworld Amusements The only book written by Adele Mary “Bio” Terrill DeCasseres, wife of Benjamin DeCasseres. Bio was the granddaughter of Stephen Mack Jr. (a fur trader known as “the first white settler in Illinois”) and […]
BOVARYSM The Art-Philosophy of Jules de Gaultier by Wilmot E. Ellis introduction by Benjamin DeCasseres Available from: Underworld Amusments Mr. Ellis has been a student of the philosophy of Jules De Gaultier for many years, and in this brochure he has given to the English-speaking world for the first time a complete survey, of the […]
