THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT
by Ralph Dumain
Note: This page is organized by subdirectory, and then alphabetized by filename.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book News
---->Links to books received and books wanted pages.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Books Received
---->Review copies listed.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Books Wanted
---->Ralph Dumain's book want list.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Sign Guestbook
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Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Theodor W. Adorno
---->Guide to pages on this site on Theodor Adorno & related critical theorists.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: American Philosophy
---->Guide to pages on this site & others in the field of 'American Philosophy'.
---->Web guide in progress.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Black Studies, Music, America vs Europe
---->Guide to pages on this site and other related to American culture, black cultures, (black/American) music, and the relations between the Old World (Europe) and the New (America).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: William Blake
---->Guide to pages on this site on William Blake & related topics, plus external links.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Esperanto
---->Guide to pages on this site & others. Gvidilo al Esperanto ĉi tie & aliloke.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Ideology
---->Guide to pages on this site which serve as reference material for the study of ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Irony, Humor, & Cynicism
---->Guide to pages on this site which serve as reference material for the study of irony, humor, comedy, and cynicism.
---->Guide to pages on this site & others plus supplementary references pertinent to the study of the struggle & interdependence of positivism & life philosophy (including existentialism & other philosophies of consciousness) within bourgeois philosophy & ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Reflexivity & Situatedness
---->Online guide to the ideology of reflexivity & situatedness.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Study Guides: Richard Wright
---->Guide to pages on this site related to Richard Wright, with some external links.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem by Heinrich Heine
---->Heinrich Heine's haunting lyric poem 'Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam', about a lonely fir tree.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project (home page)
---->All about the autodidact and the nature of intellectual life in relation to society as a whole.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": EXTERNAL LINKS
---->External links to other sites of interest.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": CARTOON: Marx & Engels Take an IQ Test
---->Cartoon: Marx and Engels Take an IQ Test--the politics of standardized testing in a nutshell.
Welcome to My Guestbook (from the old site on Third Age)
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: Images & Sounds
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: Specialized Mini-Bibliographies
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: My Writings
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: Other Authors' Texts
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Site Map: Philosophical Quotations
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Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: WHAT'S NEW on This Site
---->A web site dedicated to a study of the autodidact and the nature of intellectual life in relation to society as a whole. This page lists additions to the web site in reverse chronological order, starting on 7 June 2000.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Coming Attractions on This Site
---->A web site dedicated to a study of the autodidact and the nature of intellectual life in relation to society as a whole. This page lists 'coming attractions'--prospective additions to the web site.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de 'Ateismo'
---->Basic information about ATEO & contents of the Esperanto journal 'Ateismo' under editorship of (sub redakcio de) R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: Bibliography: Reading Audiences
---->A bibliography of materials on audience/reading public, professionalization/specialization of writers, literary forms, division of labor.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Research Topics & Bibliography
---->Intellectual life in society, conventional and unconventional: a bibliography in progress.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": NEW BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SERIES
---->Introducing a new bibliographical series for The Autodidact Project.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Anthony Braxton
---->Selected bibliography on the philosophy and biography of avante-garde jazz composer Anthony Braxton.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
---->Selected volumes of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science pertinent to Eastern European and Marxist philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Christopher Caudwell
---->Selected bibliography of works by and about martyred self-taught British Marxist philosopher and literary theorist Christopher Caudwell (pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Cynical Reason Today
---->A selected bibliography of theoretical and popular works on contemporary cynicism in society and cynical reason as a philosophical concept.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Philosophy & the Division of Labor
---->Intellectual life in society, conventional and unconventional: a bibliography in progress.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Ludwig Feuerbach
---->A bibliography of works by and about Ludwig Feuerbach in English.
---->The University of Delaware Library, Special Collections Department, Manuscripts and Archival Resources: Finding aid: University Place Book Shop Papers, 1968-1988.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Board Games & Related Games & Recreations
---->Bibliography of games collection of R. Dumain as of 8/30/94.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Hegel's Aesthetics
---->A selected bibliography on Hegel's aesthetics.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Hegel on Education
---->A short bibliography of philosopher G.W.F. Hegel on education. Philosophers' views of education reveal much about what they really stand for.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: The American Hegelians
---->A short bibliography of works on American Hegelianism and the early history of German thought in the United States.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: The Young Hegelians
---->A bibliography of works by and about the Young Hegelians in English.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Heinrich Heine
---->A selected bibliography of works by and about the Heinrich Heine in English.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Holism & Fascism
---->Select bibliography on the historical relations connecting holistic thought, New Age obscurantism, occultism, the sciences, and fascism.
---->Select bibliography on the history of Nazism, European and Japanese fascism, occultism, oriental mysticism, Buddhism, & western countercultures.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Ideology by David McLellan
---->From McLellan's book Ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Ideology
---->My personal select bibliography on ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Irony
---->A selected bibliography on irony in philosophy, Romanticism, and criticism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": A Checklist of Jack Lindsay‘s Books
---->'A Checklist of Jack Lindsay‘s Books' by John Arnold, originally published in Culture and History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Literature, Race, & Money
---->Mini-bibliography: literature & economics, race & money.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marx and Individualism: Bibliography
---->Short bibliography of key works on Marx and the individual.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Web Guide: Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics
---->Guide to resources on the web.
---->Select bibliography on biography & psychology of philosophers.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Philosophy of History of Philosophy
---->Select bibliography on philosophy of history of philosophy & historiography of philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Humor & Philosophy
---->A selected bibliography on humor and philosophy, with some additional references to Hegel.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography
---->A select bibliography on style in philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Pragmatism and Its Discontents
---->A selection of sources on the philosophy of pragmatism from particular vantage points.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Pragmatism & Its Discontents (Annotated)
---->An annotated selection of sources on the philosophy of pragmatism from particular vantage points.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Theory and Practice (Philosophy)
---->Bibliography of books on the relation between theory and practice from a philosophical perspective.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Science and Nature: Table of Contents
---->Table of contents, issues #1-10 (1978-1989), of Lester Talkington's journal Science and Nature.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Black Music & the American Surrealists
---->Bibliography of black music & the Chicago surrealists.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bibliography: Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers (1)
---->Selected bibliography of Soviet philosophy from Progress Publishers, 1968-1990.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)
---->An initial foray into the literature of Soviet philosophy, with links.
---->Selected bibliography relevant to the interrelationships & fragmentation of 20th century philosophy, covering the Vienna Circle, the Frankfurt School, logical positivism & lebensphilosophie, Popper, Marxism, McCarthyism & American philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Guestbook
---->View Guestbook
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Photos: Ideology?
---->Two photos of Ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": CARTOON: Inside the Language Undercover
---->Cartoon on taking back the language.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Afrikanaj Usonanoj por Humanismo"
---->Article in Esperanto on the newly created organization 'African Americans for Humanism', by [eseo de] R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Adorno contra Husserl
---->R. Dumain's critique of Against Epistemology: A Metacritique: Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies by Theodor W. Adorno.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "I Adorno Unbound"
---->An original poem inspired by T.W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Adorno & the Dualities
---->R. Dumain's notes on Adorno's relationship to science & overcoming the duality between positivism & irrationalism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poemo: "Lau Afrika Melodio"
---->Esperanto poem by Ralph Dumain to the rhythm of an African melody.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Dialogo kun Afrika Esperantisto" (D‑ro Akwasi Osei)
---->Dialogas R. Dumain & D‑ro Akwasi Osei de Ganao.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: African Philosophy, Politics, & the Division of Labor
---->A review of essays by Lansana Keita and E. Wamba-Dia-Wamba in African Philosophy: The Essential Readings, edited by Tsenay Serequeberhan, with a critique of Wamba-Dia-Wamba's notion of philosophy as revolutionary practice.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: Invisible Midwifery / Akusxo Nevidebla
---->English translation with Esperanto original of a poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation (traduko): "Kontrau la Diktaturo de Alaho"
---->el 'Deklaracio de la Surrealistoj de Pakistano (En Ekzilo, 1978)', tradukis R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "Alien Resurrection in the Ghetto" by Ralph Dumain
---->A cynical review of the film 'Alien Resurrection' and its ghetto audience.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: Haiku
---->Analytical Philosophy: Haiku by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: "Anarcho-Hindu"
---->A book review of Anarcho-Hindu by Curtis White, inter alia a fictional treatment of St. Louis Hegelian Henry Brokmeyer.
---->R. Dumain skeptically reviews John Michael, Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Albert Ayler"
---->A poem dedicated to late jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Surrationally Yours"
---->R. Dumain on Gaston Bachelard's surrationalism and a revolution in reason.
---->Excerpts from Bakunin's 'God and the State' translated into Esperanto by (tradukis) R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "We Real Kitsch: bell hooks on the Black Male"
---->R. Dumain skeptically reviews We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: Inside 'The Black Insider'
---->Inside 'The Black Insider', Or, War and Literature: TheWriting of Dambudzo Marechera. A review.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Enlightenment Blackout"
---->In memoriam: Jim Murray, Director, The C.L.R. James Institute, April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Black History Month 2001
---->Black History Month 2001: on intellectual infrastructures & independent learning.
---->Esperanto translation by R. Dumain of poem 'I feard the fury of my wind' by William Blake.
---->R. Dumain's project to place Blake in the universe of knowledge.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Blake & Ginsberg & Then & Now
---->R. Dumain compares the art of William Blake & Allen Ginsberg and the relations of these poets to their societies & to today.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Christopher Hampton's Radical Blake
---->R. Dumain on Christopher Hampton's appraisal Blake's confidence.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Experiencing Blake's Lamb
---->Two birthday commemorations of William Blake, in defense of his poem The Lamb.
---->R. Dumain argues what the relationship between a Blake of our time and contemporary knowledge would or would not be like.
---->R. Dumain on Shamoon Zamir on Ishmael Reed and the failure of prophecy in the '60s.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Black History Month Tribute
---->Lest We Forget--The Hidden History of the African-American Autodidact: A Tribute to Black History Month.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Anthony Braxton: The 3rd Millennial Interview
---->Excerpts from 'Anthony Braxton: The Third Millennial Interview with Mike Heffley' with commentary by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: Bulworth
---->A blistering review of the film Bulworth.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Can't Stop My Leg"
---->Stream of consciousness prose-poem on the life of a writer.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: Central Station
---->A skeptical review of the film Central Station, with an epilogue on Black Orpheus; concerning the ethics of spectatorship and the ideology of human interest stories.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: 100 Years of C.L.R. James
---->This is a commemorative essay on the occasion of the 100th birthday of C.L.R. James.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay (eseo): "C.L.R. James & Usona Kulturo"
---->The first ever essay in Esperanto on C.L.R. James, by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "C.L.R. James & American Culture: Addendum"
---->Companion piece explaining the first ever essay in Esperanto on C.L.R. James, written by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "New York Hurt Me, New York Healed Me"
---->In memoriam: Jim Murray, Director, The C.L.R. James Institute, April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: "'Collateral', or, The Philosophical Hit Man"
---->On the philosophical content of the film Collateral.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "To a Composer"
---->An original poem, dedicated to composer Michael Colquhoun.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: The Theory & Practice of John Coltrane
---->Review of an essay by John Schott on the analysis of the music of John Coltrane.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Cornel West vs. Richard Wright
---->A critique of an early article by African-American philosopher Cornel West, analyzing West's misguided perspective and misrepresentation of Richard Wright.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Countdown"
---->Countdown: poem by Ralph Dumain. Consolidate what you know, because time is running out.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: "Ishmael Reed: Literary Ambulance Chaser?"
---->A letter to the editor by R. Dumain published in the Washington City Paper, on the ironies of Ishmael Reed's trashing of James Baldwin.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Cultural Criticism & the Social Division of Labor"
---->R. Dumain reframes a current debate on the democratization of cultural criticism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "Dead Man"
---->1997 commentary by R. Dumain on Jim Jarmusch's film 'Dead Man'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "'Dead Man', Dead Criticism"
---->R. Dumain's blistering review of Jonathan Rosenbaum's book on Jim Jarmusch's film 'Dead Man'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poemo: "Mia Deksepa Jaro"
---->Esperanto poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Samuel R. Delany
---->On the importance of science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": December Diary 2003
---->Review of R. Dumain's reading & intellectual reflections in December 2003.
---->Review of the APA Eastern Division meeting, R. Dumain's reading & intellectual reflections, December 2003 - January 2004.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Divorce Court"
---->Poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Critique of 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'
---->R. Dumain's critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer & Theodore W. Adorno.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands"
---->This film review, titled 'Sexism as an Issue in Culture and Art: The Case of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands', was written by Ralph Dumain in 1978 and deals with some fundamental philosophical issues in art and life.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: Doubt & Atheism
---->English translation of an Esperanto translation of a Bulgarian article on relative vs. absolute skepticism and the progress of knowledge.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Postkomentaro al Dankov"
---->R. Dumain aldonas al eseo 'Dubo kaj Ateismo' de bulgara filozofo Evlogi Dankov.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review (Recenzo): Evaldo Pauli, "Pri Dubo kaj Certeco"
---->Fragmento, nefinita recenzo de Pri Dubo kaj Certeco de Evaldo Pauli fare de R. Dumain. Unfinished book review in Esperanto of 'On Doubt and Certainty' (in Esperanto) by Evaldo Pauli.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review (Recenzo): Sabira Ståhlberg, "Durankulak"
---->Recenzo de originala romano Durankulak de Sabira Ståhlberg fare de R. Dumain. Book review in Esperanto of 'Durankulak' (in Esperanto) by Sabira Ståhlberg.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Albert Einstein Birthday Tribute
---->On Einstein and his public: a personal tribute to Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) on the occasion of his birthday, 2001.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Einstein Revisited
---->Another birthday tribute: review of Einstein exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Albert Einstein & Black Americans
---->Brief introduction (with photo) to Einstein's unknown anti-racist activism and friendships with prominent Black Americans.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Einstein Gone 50 Years
---->Remembering Einstein on the 50th anniversary of his death.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emergence Blog
---->Running commentary on the concept & literature of emergence / emergent properties in philosophy of science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emergence Blog: Start: 5 Nov 2004 - 25 Feb 2005
---->Running commentary on the concept & literature of emergence / emergent properties in philosophy of science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emergence Blog: 23 Feb 2005 - 3 June 2005
---->Running commentary on the concept & literature of emergence / emergent properties in philosophy of science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Specimens of Esperanto (Mostly From Poems)
---->Teaching handout by R. Dumain for class on Esperanto at Howard University.
---->Report on 1977 symposium on sociolinguistics and Esperanto by R. Dumain.
---->Excerpts on antireligious propaganda from Leon Trotsky translated by (tradukis) R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: Love is forever . . .
---->For my beloved Evelyn (27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: Intellectuals and Public Life
---->Review of essay collection edited by Leon Fink et al.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Remembering the Past and Forgetting Yourself ..."
---->R. Dumain's critique of the Epilogue to Elizabeth McHenry's <i>Forgotten Readers</i>.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": A Memorial Tribute to Bill French
---->This is my tribute to the late Bill French, proprietor of New York's celebrated University Place Bookshop, known for its historic contributions to Black Studies.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Games in Esperanto-Land"
---->Article by R. Dumain for World Game Review.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The German Ideology After 150 Years
---->Description of a conference program from 1995.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "On Goldmann, Lukacs, Heidegger, & Adorno"
---->R. Dumain reviews Lucien Goldmann's Lukacs and Heidegger: Towards a New Philosophy.
---->R. Dumain's critique of Loren Goldner's view of Hegel, Marx, the Enlightenment, & the 'Third Stream', with remarks on C.L.R. James.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary
---->Bibliography of major works by & about Alvin Gouldner with annotations & comments by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Antonio Gramsci
---->Antonio Gramsci, organic intellectuals, and the division of labor.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "The Independent Scholar's Handbook" by Ronald Gross
---->A review of the most highly regarded book on independent scholarship.
---->A review of the 1993 (2nd.) edition of the most highly regarded book on independent scholarship.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: "Cave" by Endre Toth
---->English translation of a philosophical tale from the Esperanto original: 'Groto' (Cave).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: "Groundhog Day"
---->This brief review highlights the problem of consciousness unsatisfactorily resolved in the film Groundhog Day.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Ground Zero: Crying for New York
---->This memorial begins with a photo taken of a memorial at Ground Zero. Drawings read: I love New York.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Ground Zero Photo Gallery
---->In commemoration: six months after.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Hegel & Me
---->A brief outline of my interests regarding G.W.F. Hegel, including Hegel's relevance to the problem of the autodidact.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Max Horkheimer's Materialism
---->R. Dumain's critique of Max Horkheimer's struggle with traditional theory, science, positivism, & irrationalism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: Hyenas
---->Review of the film Hyenas (1992) by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "German Idealism and the Jew" by Michael Mack
---->Book review by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Cultural Impasse & Ideality
---->Cultural Impasse and the Changing Forms of Ideality: Notes Toward a Research Program.
---->A meditation on the moribund nature of collective identity in the USA and a reaffirmation of individualism in the face of the death of culture, with inspiration from Richard Wright.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Ideology: Points to Ponder
---->Dumain's list of possible approaches to the concept of ideology.
---->R. Dumain discusses Hegel, Marx, Western Marxism, social organization & content of knowledge, scientists, unity of science, et al, with remarks on C.L.R. James.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem (poemo): La Interna Ideo
---->Esperanto poem by R. Dumain, humorous cynical take on Esperanto ideology & movement. Cinika, humura poemo de R. Dumain pri Esperantismo.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: "The Intuitionist" by Colson Whitehead
---->A review of an intriguing first novel.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Heidegger's Jargon"
---->R. Dumain reviews critiques of Heidegger by Theodore W. Adorno, Pierre Bourdieu, Georg Lukacs, Marvin Farber, Stephen Eric Bronner.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Marxism & Totality & Gramsci & Della Volpe"
---->R. Dumain reviews Martin Jay's Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukacs to Habermas.
---->R. Dumain's revolutionary approach to the analysis of musical forms, mysticism, and society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: "The Temptation of Kul" by John I. Francis
---->English translation of an original short story in Esperanto by John I. Francis, on the contest of religious absolutisms.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: Brian Lloyd 's "Left Out"
---->R. Dumain's review of (a) Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922 by Brian Lloyd , (b) John Ryder's review; with (c) additional remarks on pragmatism.
---->A conceptual analysis by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem (poemo): "Malfermu la Sonon (por Miles Davis, 1959)"
---->Original Esperanto poem by R. Dumain in homage to Miles Davis, with Esperanto commentary & English translation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s 'Reason and Revolution'"
---->R. Dumain reviews Marcuse.
---->R. Dumain reviews Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse by Charles Reitz.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review (Recenzo): Emba, "Maria kaj la Grupo"
---->Recenzo de originala romano Maria kaj la Grupo de Emba fare de R. Dumain. Book review in Esperanto of 'Maria & the Group' (in Esperanto) by Emba.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Melville & the Contradictions of Modernity
---->This essay, now titled 'Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity', is based on an extract from the draft of a larger paper, 'C.L.R. James, Herman Melville, and Modernity at the Breaking Point' by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "'The Martian Chronicles' & Our Subjective Desires"
---->This essay by Ralph Dumain is a summary and evaluation of the 1979 television miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, with an attempted transcription of a scene critical of traditional theology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Unknown Karl Marx
---->In commemoration of Marx's birthday, we consider the aspects of Marx's thought that go largely unrecognized even to this day, esp. Marx's concern with the development of the human individual.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Cultural Imperialism & Western Mathematics
---->Against Irrationalism and Particularism, Or, The Fake Issue of Western Mathematics by R. Dumain, an essay in rebuttal to an article in Race and Class by Alan J. Bishop characterizing mathematics as the secret weapon of western cultural imperialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: For Rene Menil, Caribbean Surrealist-Philosopher
---->A tribute to Renil Menil, a member of the surrealist literary circle of Martinique that included Aime Cesaire, with a review of Menil's (mostly) untranslated essays, focusing on humor and the critique of Negritude.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Metacritique Critiqued
---->R. Dumain's critique of Metacritique: The Philosophical Argument of Jürgen Habermas by Garbis Kortian.
---->R. Dumain on the problems of popularization of professional philosophy & the persistence of fragmentation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: The Minimal Self
---->A brief review of The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch, highlighting its relevance to the critique of New Age and other ideologies, artand popular culture, spawned in reaction to the contemporary social climate of psychologicalterror.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poemo: "La Sunvoranto"
---->Esperanto poem by Ralph Dumain inspired by 'The Sun Eater', a lithograph by Joan Miró.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist"
---->Letter to Free Inquiry, 7/16/2002 by R. Dumain, in response to 'Moby Dick: Broiled in Hellfire' by Gary Sloan.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: V.Y. Mudimbe's "Between Tides"
---->Review of V.Y. Mudimbe's novel of colonialism, Catholicism, and revolution in Africa.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: Blake & Coltrane in Esperanto
---->English translation with Esperanto original of a poem by Ralph Dumain, 'Upon the First Snow-Storm of the Season', re-published in honor of Coltrane's 75th birthday.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Cascades in Silence"
---->An original poem by Ralph Dumain, on the individual, society, and the cosmos.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Nina Simone: A Personal Tribute
---->In Memoriam: Nina Simone, 21 February 1933 - 21 April 2003. Personal memories of the artist by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "No E-Mail"
---->A bitter satire on cyberculture hype.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Cultural Sophistication & Self-Reference
---->An essay originality written in 1993, reflecting upon the increasingly self-referentiality of American television culture.
---->R. Dumain reviews Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "Problems of the History of Philosophy"
---->R. Dumain reviews Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Originality Blues: Tales of the ‘70s"
---->Autobiographical vignettes on the philosophy of originality.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes"
---->On philosophical originality & philosophy of originality.
---->On originality vs class society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Solitude: Vignettes"
---->Autobiographical vignettes on the philosophical implications of solitude, social networking, and originality.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Richard Wright's PAGAN SPAIN
---->Review of Richard Wright's Pagan Spain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: System and History in Philosophy
---->Review of a book by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Philosophy as Autobiography: Alternatives to Subjectivism"
---->Essay on the biography & psychology of philosophers.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Philosophy and Humor
---->A letter to the editor of Philosophy Now on its special humor issue, reflecting on the philosophy of humor and the humor of philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Philosophy & Everyday Life: Prologue to Discussion"
----> This is a companion piece to Dumain's paper 'How to Integrate Philosophy and Everyday Life: To Think Philosophically in Life, Or Reproduce the Fragmentation of Knowledge?'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "How to Integrate Philosophy & Everyday Life"
---->'How to Integrate Philosophy and Everyday Life: To Think Philosophically in Life, Or Reproduce the Fragmentation of Knowledge?', position paper by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Professional and Popular Philosophy: Online Debates
---->R. Dumain discusses all aspects of the nature of philosophical thinking, professional & amateur, problems of popularization.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Alien Intercourse"
---->An original humorous poem by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Two Artists Discuss Their Craft"
---->An original poem on the creative process by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: On Seeing ... The Doors
---->An original poem by Ralph Dumain: On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Your Elegance"
---->An original poem by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Shopping Mall Blues"
---->A poem not about sex, but about consciousness.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "The Visionary's Diary"
---->An original poem by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Some Comments on The Prisoner"
---->4 brief commentaries by R. Dumain (1988-1990) published in Number Six, a fanzine published by Six of One: The Prisoner Appreciation Society, dedicated to the television series The Prisoner.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Convergence on The Prisoner"
---->An essay on the politics of the television series The Prisoner written by Ralph Dumain in 1989.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: "Springtime for Hitler: Irony Lost-and-Found"
---->R. Dumain's review of Mel Brooks' musical The Producers.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "The Poet Looks Out on P Street in Late December"
---->Poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
---->'Two Dogmas of Empiricism': satirical poem on Quine and Analytical Philosophy, by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: 2003 Reading Review
---->Review of R. Dumain's reading & intellectual projects for 2003.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "On Unreflective Reflexivity"
---->R. Dumain reviews Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament by Hilary Lawson.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary
---->Commentary on selected philosophical quotations from Wilhelm Reich.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review (Recenzo): Evaldo Pauli, "Rekta Pensado"
---->Recenzo de Rekta Pensado de Evaldo Pauli fare de R. Dumain. Book review in Esperanto of 'Right Thinking' (in Esperanto) by Evaldo Pauli.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Homebody without a Home"
---->Homebody without a Home (for Rita Dove), poem by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "The Root"
---->Poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review (Draft): Richard Wright: The Life and Times
---->Draft of R. Dumain's review of Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright: The Life and Times.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: "Richard Wright: In a Class by Himself"
---->R. Dumain's published review of Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright: The Life and Times.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Researching the Topic (1)
---->Researching the autodidact as a concept.
---->R. Dumain's translation of scholarly article by Michael Smith, 'Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union: Language Reforms and Esperanto, 1917-1937'.
---->Abstracts of 3-session program organized by Ralph Dumain. for the Arts & Humanities Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": William Blake's "The Smile"
---->R. Dumain's commentary on William Blake's poem 'The Smile' for the Favorite Poem Project.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Soviet Historiography of Philosophy: Review Essay
---->Summary, thoughts on Soviet Historiography of Philosophy: Istoriko-filosofskaja Nauka by Evert van der Zweerde.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Sparking My Pain"
---->A poem opposing ghettocentric poetry.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poemo: "Ĉi-Stato sub la Ŝtato"
---->Esperanto poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Stripes"
---->English translation of an original Esperanto poem ('Strioj') by Ralph Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "The Striving"
---->Poem by R. Dumain written after a music-cum-poetry performance.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy"
---->R. Dumain reviews The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought by J.J. Clarke.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: E.P. Thompson
---->Why E.P. Thompson counts as one of my heroes.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth
---->An ongoing memorial tribute and archive dedicated to the multitalented Hungarian Esperantist writer.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: "Touki Bouki"
---->Review of the film Touki Bouki (1973) by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: Songs from Unsung Worlds
---->Ralph Dumain reviews anthology of science in poetry.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: Poem: "Truth"
---->English translation of an Esperanto translation of a Czech poem by Marketa Prochazkova.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: "Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari (1)
---->English translation of a short story in Esperanto by Sandor Szathmari, Vincent, on the relation between Galileo and his fictitious older brother and both to authoritarianism and dogmatism. Part 1 of 3.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: "Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari (2)
---->English translation of a short story in Esperanto by Sandor Szathmari, Vincent, on the relation between Galileo and his fictitious older brother and both to authoritarianism and dogmatism. Part 2 of 3.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Translation: "Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari (3)
---->English translation of a short story in Esperanto by Sandor Szathmari, Vincent, on the relation between Galileo and his fictitious older brother and both to authoritarianism and dogmatism. Part 3 of 3.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Harry Wells on the History of Logic
---->Commentary by R. Dumain on 1961 essay by Harry K. Wells.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: WHAT BIRD AM I?
---->A poem by Ralph Dumain, asking the age-old question: who am I, what am I doing, where am I going?
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Film Review: "What Dreams May Come"
---->A largely favorable review of the film What Dreams May Come.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "What It Is"
---->Poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "What It Was Like"
---->Poem by R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Richard Wright's WHITE MAN, LISTEN!
---->A brief statement on Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!, reflecting on Wright's rootless cosmopolitanism, individualism, apostleship for modernity, and his role as a mediator between the modern West and the developing non-western world struggling against colonialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: "Wisdom and Abstract Thought"
----> Position paper by R. Dumain, for discussion.
---->On women and The Autodidact Project.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Objectivity & Partisanship in Science" by Aant Elzinga
---->This article links objectivity to partisanship as opposed to value-neutrality, contrasting the Marxist view to the anti-socialist position of Max Weber.
---->On the ideological vacillation between scientism and Romanticism, with examples drawn from the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions .
----> Chapter 2, Essays on Scientism, Romanticism and Social Realist Images of Science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Man of Science in a World of Crisis" by Aant Elzinga
---->Subtitled 'A Plea for a Two-Pronged Attack on Positivism and Irrationalism'. An important monograph from 1980 on irrationalism, anti-science, and social crisis.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideal Superstructures" by Derek Sayer
---->An essential but rare analysis of Marx's materialist conception of conscious existence, opposed to the dualism of the material and the ideal.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Inside and Outside" by T.W. Adorno
---->From Minima Moralia: Theodor Adorno on the limitations of academic philosophy and 'independent' thought and the relation between them.
---->Section from Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": T.W. Adorno's "Theses Against Occultism"
---->Theodor Adorno's brilliant analysis linking contemporary occultism and commodity fetishism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Asconan Idea in Politics" by Martin Green
---->Chapter 8 of Mountain of Truth: The Counterculture Begins, Ascona, 1900-1920.
---->Romanian philosopher Ion Banu relates graphic figures and symbols to the historical formation of abstract philosophical concepts, using Chinese philosophy as an example.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: Einstein's Universe
---->A book review which originally appeared in a now obscure Trotskyist theoretical journal in 1949, it is reprinted here as a prescient analysis of what's wrong with science popularization that turns physics into mysticism, following the wave of mystical obscurantism that peaked in the 1920s and anticipating the pervasive New Age piffle of the 1960s and ‘70s.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Matter & Motion" by L. Bazhenov
---->Defense of the inseparability of matter and motion in the scientific world-picture, in opposition to a pure behaviorism as well as traditional substance ontology.
---->How to avoid nominalism and Platonism in philosophy of logic.
---->Concluding section: English translation with French original.
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Pierre Bourdieu on Education and the Autodidact
---->Section from Bourdieu's Distinction.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Rudolf Carnap: "Lingvoplanado" (Language Planning)
---->El autobiografio de Carnap: pri artefaritaj lingvoj por logiko & internacia komunikado (Esperanto). Trad. R. Dumain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": V. Brushlinsky: Carnap's ‘Elimination of Metaphysics’
---->A Soviet philosopher's refutation of Carnap's position.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Rosemary Chapman: "Autodidacticism & the Desire for Culture"
---->Article detailing 3 examples of different models of the cultural aspirations of the lower classes.
---->On ancient Indian medicine or Ayurveda, its naturalist, materialist, egalitarian basis, and the defamation of physicians by upper caste ideologists.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Lucio Colletti: "From Hegel to Marcuse"
---->Colletti rips Hegel, dialectical materialists, Sartre & Marcuse a new one.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "On the Comic" by T. Lyubimova
---->Scholarly article from the USSR analyzing the various dimensions of the comic, in society and in the history of philosophy including Kant and Hegel.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Compared to What" by Eugene McDaniels
---->A famous song of the 1960s written by Eugene McDaniels & performed by Ls McCann.
---->1978 ideology critique of curricula in 'philosophy for children' & 'critical thinking'.
---->A critique of cynicism and metacynicism in today's world.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Review: The Wages of Cynicism
---->Review of Peter Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynical Reason, by Michael Miley in Propaganda Review.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Cynicism as a Form of Ideology" by Slavoj Zizek
---->Extract from The Sublime Object of Ideology.
---->How bourgeois philosophy lost a sense of reality behind appearances.
---->Contents of German/Esperanto philosophical treatise in Esperanto and English.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Eugen Macko: "Dialogiko je la Fino de Dialektiko": Enkonduko
---->Introduction to philosophical treatise in Esperanto.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Frederick Douglass, Ottilie Assing, & Ludwig Feuerbach
---->Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass, New York, 15 May 1871.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Dubo kaj Ateismo" de Evlogi Dankov
---->Traduko el la bulgara lingvo de eseo pri relativa kont. absoluta skeptikismo & la progreso de sciado.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": David Dubrovsky: The Problem of the Ideal: Introduction
---->Introduction to the book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Problem of the Ideal
---->Two extracts from a book by Soviet philosopher David Dubrovsky, on the relation between the philosophical categories of the material and the ideal, and the relation of individual thinking to social consciousness and cultural innovation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": David Dubrovsky: The Problem of the Ideal: Contents
---->Table of Contents of book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Esperanto: Ateisto Fan Ĝen
---->Pri c^ina liberpensulo Fan G^en (450-515 AD).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: Naturalism vs. Subjectivism
---->Chapter I, Section A of Naturalism and Subjectivism by Marvin Farber.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: Naturalism & Subjectivism: Contents
---->Table of Contents of Naturalism and Subjectivism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: The Search for an Alternative 1
---->The Search for an Alternative: Philosophical Perspectives of Subjectivism and Marxism, Chapter 1: 'Subjectivism, Phenomenology, Marxism, and the Role of Alternatives', by Marvin Farber.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: The Search for an Alternative 9
---->The Search for an Alternative: Philosophical Perspectives of Subjectivism and Marxism, Chapter 9: 'From the Perspective of Materialism', by Marvin Farber.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: The Search for an Alternative 8
---->The Search for an Alternative: Philosophical Perspectives of Subjectivism and Marxism, Chapter 8: 'The Historical Outcome of Subjectivism', by Marvin Farber.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Marvin Farber: Edmund Husserl and the Aims of Phenomenology
---->The Aims of Phenomenology, Chapter 1, by Marvin Farber.
---->On Husserl & the uses & flaws of phenomenology & existentialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Frithjof Rodi: 'Frames of Articulation'
---->Section of article: Frithjof Rodi, Historical Philosophy in Search of 'Frames of Articulation'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The William Plummer French Prize
---->This annual book prize in African and African American Studies was established at Harvard University as a tribute to the late Bill French, proprietor of New York's celebrated University Place Bookshop, known for its historic contributions to Black Studies.
---->The late Bill French, apprentice to Walter Goldwater, later proprietor of New York's celebrated University Place Bookshop, recounts his experiences as a book collector and dealer in the area of Black and Africana Studies.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Bill French - A Sister's View" by Bettina French
---->A memoir of bookseller Bill French by his sister Bettina.
---->A memoir by librarian Moore Crossey.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Firesign Theater: "Temporarily Humboldt County"
---->Dialogue from Firesign Theater's first record album Waiting for the Electrician (Or Someone Like Him).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: Andras Gedo on Anti-Science (1)
---->Reprint of The Contemporary Attack on Science by Andras Gedo.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: Andras Gedo on Anti-Science (2)
---->Reprint of The Contemporary Attack on Science by Andras Gedo.
---->Chapter 1 of Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by Andras Gedo.
---->Chapter 2, part 1 of Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by Andras Gedo.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie)" by Andras Gedo
---->Chapter 2, part 2 of Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by Andras Gedo.
---->Table of contents of Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by Andras Gedo.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Hegel, Slavery & 19th Century African American Music (2)
---->Abstract, Acknowledgements, Contents of 'The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music', PhD dissertation by Greg Harrison.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Hegel, Slavery & 19th Century African American Music (4)
---->Chapter 1, Lordship and Bondage, of 'The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music', PhD dissertation by Greg Harrison.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Hegel, Slavery & 19th Century African American Music (3)
---->Introduction to 'The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music', PhD dissertation by Greg Harrison.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Hegel, Slavery & 19th Century African American Music (1)
---->R. Dumain introduces 'The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music', PhD dissertation by Greg Harrison.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": G. Ramakrishna: Some Loud Thinking About the Bhagavadgita
---->A scathing denunciation of the Bhagavad Gita by an Indian Marxist.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bakunin: "God or Labor?"
---->Bakunin is like Ludwig Feuerbach on steroids: he applies Feuerbach's inversion metaphor with a vengeance. Materialism vs. idealism = labor vs. the exploiting classes. The inverted world is one in which all life, spirit, and thought have been drained from the material world and deposited in a fictitious supernatural world. Priestcraft and statecraft invert the true order of things.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Interview: Walter Goldwater on New York City Bookshops (1)
---->Interview: New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater (Part 1).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Interview: Walter Goldwater on New York City Bookshops (2)
---->Interview: New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater (Part 2).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Interview: Walter Goldwater on New York City Bookshops (3)
---->Interview: New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater (Part 3).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Theory and Ideology" by Alvin Gouldner
---->Section from 'The Politics of the Mind', against the political regimentation of intellectuals.
---->Extracts from 'The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class' by Alvin Gouldner.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": A. Ross McCormack on THE GREAT TRIBULATION
---->McCormack's introduction to The Great Tribulation, a prophetic 1902 novel of working-class rebellion by Libertas Brammel set in 1960 Winnipeg.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Piet Hein: "The Common Well" (To Charles Chaplin)
---->Piet Hein's grook in honor of Chaplin, with cartoon.
---->Table of contents: the 1993 (2nd.) edition of the most highly regarded book on independent scholarship.
---->Section from 'Introduction: Some Difficulties in the Attempt to Link Theory and Praxis' in Theory and Practice.
---->On the 19th century confrontation between Hasidim & Haskalah in Galicia & Poland.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Bertolt Brecht: On Hegelian Dialectics
---->Excerpt from Brecht's Flüchtlingsgespräche [Refugee Conversations].
---->Eugene E. Graziano on W.T. Harris' classification system as the basis for DDC.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: Heinrich Heine: "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam"
---->Heinrich Heine's haunting lyric poem 'Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam', about a lonely fir tree, with several English translations.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Article: Haldeman-Julius & Popular Culture
---->'Haldeman-Julius, the Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture', an article by Dale M. Herder.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "How to Study" (Jefferson School)
---->Pamphlet published by the Jefferson School of Social Science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Sojourner Truth Organization: "How to Think"
---->Study guide for Marxist education.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Concept of Ideology" by Jorge Larrain
---->Contents and Introduction to The Concept of Ideology by Jorge Larrain.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Ideology by Jorge Larrain
---->A condensed summary on the genealogy of the concept , from A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Jeff Schmidt on Ideology & Professionals
---->A quote on ideology from Jeff Schmidt's book Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Ideology: Definitions & Approaches (Terry Eagleton's list)
---->A list of contemporary approaches to the concept of ideology compiled by Terry Eagleton.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Concepts of Ideology (1) by Arne Naess
---->From Democracy, Ideology, and Objectivity by Arne Naess et al (1956). Part 1: On the history of the term from Destutt de Tracy to Marx.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Concepts of Ideology (2) by Arne Naess
---->From Democracy, Ideology, and Objectivity by Arne Naess et al (1956). Part 2: Definitions of the term 'ideology' today.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideology" by Raymond Williams
---->Historical review of the keyword ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideology in the Descriptive Sense" by Raymond Geuss
---->From Raymond Geuss's analysis of ideology according to descriptive, pejorative, and positive views.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideology in the Pejorative Sense" by Raymond Geuss
---->From Raymond Geuss's analysis of ideology according to descriptive, pejorative, and positive views.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Ideology in the Positive Sense" by Raymond Geuss
---->From Raymond Geuss's analysis of ideology according to descriptive, pejorative, and positive views.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Concept of the Ideal" by E. V. Ilyenkov
---->Ilyenkov's essay from 'Problems of Dialectical Materialism'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Evald Ilyenkov's Philosophy Revisited"
---->Contents, contributors, introduction to collection of papers from symposium on Evald Ilyenkov, Helsinki, 7-8 September 1999.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "From the Marxist-Leninist Point of View" by E. V. Ilyenkov
---->Ilyenkov's contribution to international symposium held at the University of Notre Dame, April 1966.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Universal" by E. V. Ilyenkov
---->Ilyenkov's Marxian conception of the nature of the universal against traditional notions.
C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century (1)
---->This overview of the life, work, and significance of C.L.R. James was originally published as a pamphlet, and it became the introduction to The C.L.R. James Reader. It appears here as a web page in Ralph Dumain's The Autodidact Project.
C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century (2)
---->This overview of the life, work, and significance of C.L.R. James was originally published as a pamphlet, and it became the introduction to The C.L.R. James Reader. It appears here as a web page in Ralph Dumain's The Autodidact Project.
C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century (3)
---->This overview of the life, work, and significance of C.L.R. James was originally published as a pamphlet, and it became the introduction to The C.L.R. James Reader. It appears here as a web page in Ralph Dumain's The Autodidact Project.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox
---->Historical survey of the concept of irony.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Linda Hutcheon: The Functions of Irony (Diagram)
---->Diagram from the author's Irony's Edge.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Jitterbugs" by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
---->Poem on the painful discrepancy between the imagination and oppressive social reality.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Esperanto: "Drinkema kaj Frenezuma Filozofo Jxuan Gxji"
---->Pri cxina filozofo & poeto Jxuan Gxji ( 210-263 AD).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Leszek Kolakowski: The Alienation of Reason
---->Extract: part of chapter 8 & Conclusion of book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Martin Lavallée: "L'atheisme esperantophone"
---->Article in French on Esperanto organization ATEO & interview with R. Dumain / Franclingva gazetartikolo pri ATEO & R.Dumain.
---->A reply to Kenneth L. Schmitz.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Subject, Object, Cognition" by V. A. Lektorsky
---->Table of Contents & Preface to English Edition.
---->Critique of Popper's Three Worlds ontology, comparison to Hegel. Extract from V.A. Lektorsky's Subject, Object, Cognition.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Idealised & Real Objects" by V. A. Lektorsky
---->Extract from V.A. Lektorsky's Subject, Object, Cognition.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Cognition in the Context of Culture" by Vladislav Lektorsky
---->On the cultural-historical dimension of philosophy, esp. epistemology & its two-way ideological impact in relation to (scientific) knowledge.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": David H. DeGrood: "Life-World within Brackets"
---->Futility & solipsism of Husserl's transendental philosophy in the face of fascism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: Jack Lindsay's Contributions to British Marxism
---->'The Origins of Jack Lindsay's Contributions to British Marxist Thought' by Joel R. Brouwer, originally published in Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 7, no. 3 (1994), pp. 261-279.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: Jack Lindsay's "A Note on My Dialectic"
---->'A Note on My Dialectic' by Jack Lindsay, originally published in Culture and History: Essays Presented to Jack Lindsay.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Towards a Marxist Aesthetic" by Jack Lindsay
---->'Towards a Marxist Aesthetic' by Jack Lindsay, from Decay and Renewal.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: Adrian Caesar on Jack Lindsay
---->Jack Lindsay and British Poetry in the 1930s, extract from <i>Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class and Ideology in the 1930s</i>.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya: Lokayata
----> Rehabiliatation of the defamed Lokayata school of ancient Indian philosophical materialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: "Existentialism" by Georg Lukacs
---->Lukacs' quintessential critique of phenomenology and existentialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Martyn Lyons: The Autodidacts and their Literary Culture
---->Full title: 'The Autodidacts and Their Literary Culture: Working-Class Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century France'.
---->Mihailo Markovic was a member of the dissident Yugoslav praxis school of Marxist philosophy.
---->Mihailo Markovic was a member of the dissident Yugoslav praxis school of Marxist philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Dialectical Theory of Meaning " (1) by Mihailo Markovic
---->Sections from part one of Dialectical Theory of Meaning by Mihailo Markovic.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Dialectical Theory of Meaning " (2) by Mihailo Markovic
---->Sections from part two of <i>Dialectical Theory of Meaning</i> by Mihailo Markovic, on linguistic meaning, presenting a dialectical view of the relation between language & thought.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Dialectical Theory of Meaning " (3) by Mihailo Markovic
---->Chapter 12 from part three of <i>Dialectical Theory of Meaning</i> by Mihailo Markovic.
---->Extract on nature of science & system in Greek & early modern philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Karl Marx on Philosophy after Its Completion
---->From Difference between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Notes; Part One; IV: General difference in principle between the Democritean and Epicurean philosophy of nature.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: "Historical Amnesia" by Karl Maton & Rob Moore
---->Subtitled 'Victims of fashion and outbreaks of 'breaks' in the disciplinary map'. On knower vs. knowledge modes of legitimation and the new irrationalism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Poem: "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
---->A poem of spiritual death and rebirth.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Contents
---->Table of contents of book.
---->Section 1 of chapter 1 of Alternatives to Positivism.
---->Chapter 1.2.
---->Chapter 1.3.
---->Chapter 2.1.
---->Chapter 2.2.
---->Chapter 2.3.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Overcoming Hegel
---->Chapter 3.1.
---->Chapter 3.2.
---->Chapter 3.3.
---->Chapter 3.4.
---->Chapter 3.5.
---->Chapter 3.6.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Introduction
---->Introduction to book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Conclusion
---->Concluding chapter.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Name Index
---->Name index to book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Igor Naletov: "Alternatives to Positivism": Subject Index
---->Subject index to book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846 (2)
---->Part two of 'The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846' by Dorothy B. Porter, originally published in The Journal of Negro Education, vol. V, no. 4, Oct. 1936, pp. 555-576.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846 (1)
---->Part one of 'The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846' by Dorothy B. Porter, originally published in The Journal of Negro Education, vol. V, no. 4, Oct. 1936, pp. 555-576.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The New Age Mythology" by Michael Parenti
---->Chapter 2 of Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Philosopher's Mission" by Paul Nizan
---->Paul Nizan defends the extistence and apoliticism of the strictly specialist aspect of philosophy while condemning it for its malfeasance in human affairs.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Susan Stewart: Nonsense, Irony, Humor
---->Excerpts from Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Observorman
---->A blast from the '60s: cartoon pamphlet on the social (ir)responsibility of the scientist.
---->Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy: Essays on the History of Philosophy, chap. 1, section 2.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": T.I. Oizerman: Philosophy and Everyday Consciousness
---->Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy: Essays on the History of Philosophy, chap. 1, section 5.
---->Contents: Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy: Essays on the History of Philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Main Trends in Philosophy" by T.I. Oizerman
---->Contents: The Main Trends in Philosophy: A Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Problem of Wisdom as a Real Problem" by T.I. Oizerman
---->Chapter 1, section 4, Problems of the History of Philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Problems of the History of Philosophy" by T.I. Oizerman
---->Contents: Problems of the History of Philosophy.
---->Contents: Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Article: "Thoughts on Autodidacticism" by John W. Osborne
---->Osborne on himself and William Cobbett and the preference among the self-educated, especially among the working class, for high culture, as opposed to contemporary stereotypical expectations born of multiculturalism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral? (2)
---->A unique article about the paradoxes of philosophy for the people and the romanticization of the commonfolk.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?
---->A unique article about the paradoxes of philosophy for the people and the romanticization of the commonfolk.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: "The Sacred and the Profane" by Karl Maton
---->Analysis of the tendency of Pierre Bourdieu's methods, especially in the hands of contemporary sociologists, to reduce cultural value to the socially arbitrary, and how to counteract this trend.
---->Fredy Perlman on the contradictions of C. Wright Mills.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Fredy Perlman: The Incoherence of the Intellectual (1)
---->Fredy Perlman on the contradictions of C. Wright Mills.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Fredy Perlman: The Incoherence of the Intellectual (2)
---->Fredy Perlman on the contradictions of C. Wright Mills.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Fredy Perlman: The Incoherence of the Intellectual (3)
---->Fredy Perlman on the contradictions of C. Wright Mills.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": '"Philosophy for the Future'"
---->Forward & Table of Contents of Philosophy for the Future: The Quest of Modern Materialism, ed. Roy Wood Sellars, V.J. McGill, Marvin Farber ; an ambitious anthology published in 1949 which , due to McCarthyism, failed to get the recognition it deserved.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Philosophy Hits the Newsstands" by Joshua Glenn
---->Article on 2 popular philosophy magazines & the public philosophy movement.
---->List compiled by John McCumber.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: "Popes, Kings & Cultural Studies" by Karl Maton
---->Subtitled 'Placing the commitment to non-disciplinarity in historical context'. On knower vs. knowledge modes of legitimation, or, feudalism & postmodernism vs the Enlightenment.
---->This is figure 2 with two rotations, illustrating The Rotational Symmetry of the ‘Tree Diagram’ of knower hierarchies.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: Play: "Pocahontas" by Edward W. Pearlstien
---->A short play by Edward Pearlstien, husband of Constance Webb Pearlstien.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Henry A. Pochmann: Herman Melville & German Philosophy
---->Documentation of Melville's interest in German thought.
---->Book chapter 1: opening section. On political misuse of the concept.
---->Explanation of the specificity of Nazi anti-Semitism beyond an exclusive focus either on fascism or racism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": On the Jackson Trail
---->Review of Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940 by Jonathan Ree.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Gajo Petrovic: Reification
---->From A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.
---->On the contrast between the cultural and intellectual aspirations of British workers and the elitist orientation of educated modernist writers.
---->German anthropologist refugee Julius Lips recounts how he escaped from the Nazis with his collection of artifacts documenting the art & attitudes of colonized peoples toward the white man.
---->Summary of the life & work of Arturo Schomburg.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Image of Science and Metaphysics" by Nina Yulina
---->On content of sciences vs images, ideologies, philosophies of science (physicalism, biologism, etc.).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Roy Wood Sellars: Reflections: Foreword & Contents
---->Foreword & Table of Contents: Reflections on American Philosophy From Within by Roy Wood Sellars.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Roy Wood Sellars: Reflections: Chapter 1
---->Chapter 1: The Nature of the Project, from Reflections on American Philosophy From Within by Roy Wood Sellars.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Roy Wood Sellars: Reflections: Chapter 8
---->Chapter 8: Intersecting Dialectical Materialism, from Reflections on American Philosophy From Within by Roy Wood Sellars.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Oh,To Freely Pursue the Scholarly Life!" by Gary Shapiro
---->.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "A Tribute to Lester (Hank) Talkington" by Lloyd Motz
---->Lloyd Motz's obituary for Lester Talkington, editor of the journal Science and Nature.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Intellectual and Manual Labor: Contents
---->Table of contents: Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Alfred Sohn-Rethel: Intellectual and Manual Labor: Extracts
---->Extracts from book.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Spinoza, the First Secular Jew?" by Yirmiyahu Yovel
---->Article by Spinoza scholar Yirmiyahu Yovel on Spinoza as exemplar of modernity, religious heretic and philosophical architect of the modern pluralistic secular state, who found a solution for modern secular democracy in general but not for Jewish ethnicity itself.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Mark Starr (1894-1985): A Pioneer in Workers' Education
---->Ronda Hauben's interview with labor educator and Esperantist Mark Starr.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist
---->Biographical dictionary entry on labor educator and Esperantist Mark Starr.
---->Mark Starr .writes on the confluence of John Dewey's philosophy & the goals of the labor movement.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Mark Starr (1894-1985): Interview with Martin Lawn
---->'Mark Starr: Socialist Educator': Martin Lawn's interview with labor educator and Esperantist Mark Starr.
---->Portrait of Thomas Davidson, a forgotten but highly influential philosopher and educator.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Gerald Holton: "The Thematic Component"
---->Section of Introduction, Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Book Review: "High Life & Mad English"
---->John Strausbaugh's review of Kurt Thometz's Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English for the New York Press.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Bill French & Onitsha Market Literature" by Kurt Thometz
---->Afterword to Kurt Thometz's Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": George Thomson: The First Philosophers: Contents & Prefaces
---->Table of contents & prefaces to The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society.
---->Chapter XV, The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": George Thomson: The First Philosophers: Being (5 &6)
---->Chapter XIV, sections 5 & 6, The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": George Thomson: The First Philosophers: False Consciousness
---->Chapter XVI, The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Song: Die Gedanken Sind Frei (My Thoughts Are Free)
---->Lyrics of famous German political protest and freethought song in English translation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Georgi Mihalkov: "Mi Ne Deziras Esti Juvelo"
---->Biography & tribute to the late multitalented Hungarian Esperantist writer Endre Toth. / Biografio & omag^o al la mortinta multtalenta Hungara Esperantista verkisto Endre Toth.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Undoing Substantial Connection (1)
---->'The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought: Undoing Substantial Connection' by Sheila Delany: a comprehensive article on the relationship between allegory, cosmology, philosophy, science, politics, and feudalism, and the breakup of allegorical thought as the harbinger of the breakup of medieval absolutism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Undoing Substantial Connection (2)
---->'The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought: Undoing Substantial Connection' by Sheila Delany: a comprehensive article on the relationship between allegory, cosmology, philosophy, science, politics, and feudalism, and the breakup of allegorical thought as the harbinger of the breakup of medieval absolutism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essay: Undoing Substantial Connection (3)
---->'The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought: Undoing Substantial Connection' by Sheila Delany: a comprehensive article on the relationship between allegory, cosmology, philosophy, science, politics, and feudalism, and the breakup of allegorical thought as the harbinger of the breakup of medieval absolutism.
---->Vardy connects the consequences of Russell's banishment of the paradoxes of set theory to Hegel's dialectics and a fundamental antinomy of mathematics, relating formalization to extra-formal motivation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Harry K. Wells: "Process and Unreality"
---->Preface to Process and Unreality: A Criticism of Method in Whitehead's Philosophy by Harry K. Wells.
---->1961 manuscript by Harry K. Wells.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "A Scientist, or a Man of Wisdom?"
---->Last section of chapter 1 of Soviet primer What is Philosophy?.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Mind & Politics: Introduction by Ellen Meiksins Wood
---->Introductory chapter of Wood's Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Woody Guthrie Finds His Voice
---->Voice, a poem by Woody Guthrie.
---->Jindrich Zeleny argues that the dialectical materialist stage of rationality promotes a deeper objectivity than the Aristotelian and Cartesian and provides an alternative to the regressive path of Heidegger.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Artie Awards Honor Playwright Manny Fried
---->Biographical news article with interview of Fried on occasion of Artie Awards.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Bush’s Underlying Intention" by Emanuel Fried
---->Manny Fried compares the Iraq war to the covert manipulations surrounding the Korean War, looking for the underlying intentions of the Bush administration.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: "Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing"
---->Title page, prefatory quote, table of contents, abstract from Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing (Essays and Related Material Concerning Class Structure and the Arts), PhD dissertation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: Preface: Letter to Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler
---->'Preface: A Letter to Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler, July 17, 1974' from Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing (Essays and Related Material Concerning Class Structure and the Arts), PhD dissertation.
---->Chapter 1 of Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing (Essays and Related Material Concerning Class Structure and the Arts), PhD dissertation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: "The Dodo Bird" (Excerpt)
---->Excerpt from celebrated labor drama by Manny Fried.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Emanuel Fried Center: Letter from Albert Einstein
---->Fascimile of Einstein's letter of support to Emanuel Fried for his non-cooperation with the HUAC anti-communist witch hunt.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: "Leslie Fiedler and Me"
---->Emanuel Fried's memoir of Leslie Fiedler's support for him during the anti-communist witch hunt.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Emanuel Fried Center
---->The first site on the Internet to document the work of Buffalo's own Manny Fried.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "MY VIEW: Kazan and Me" by Emanuel Fried
---->An account of Manny Fried's personal experiences with Elia Kazan.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried Interviewed by Mike Mahoney
---->Interview published in 1984.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Candle in the Wind" by Emanuel Fried
---->Several chapters of Manny Fried's memoir in progress.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried Interviewed by Jamie Moses
---->'Buffalo's Manny Fried: Laboring For The Working Man' , interview published in 1989.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel J. Fried Fact Sheet
---->Manny Fried's vita.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: "Shuffle Back to Buffalo"
---->Short story by Manny Fried, probably at least partly autobiographical.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Emanuel Fried: "The Slowdown"
---->First-hand account of historic, successful labor slowdown at the Remington Rand factory in Tonawands, NY.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. ADORNO on solidarity
---->T.W. Adorno on the necessity of isolation when even solidarity is sick.
---->On Kant's ambivalence & the dualities of bourgeois reason (theory-practice, rationality-irrationality ).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism
---->T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism as a pop culture ideological fraud.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. ADORNO on Spengler & Heidegger
---->T.W. Adorno on Spengler's sado-masochistic capitulation to power and its echoes in Heidegger.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": T.W. Adorno: "Dialectics Not a Sociology of Knowledge"
---->Quote from Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics on the dialectical vs. the sociology-of-knowledge conception of ideology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. Adorno: "Resignation" (Excerpts)
---->Adorno defends the independence and integrity of intellectual activity against the mindless actionism of the 1960s.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": T.W. Adorno on the Division of Philosophy & Labor
---->Quotes from Theodor Adorno's 'Why Still Philosophy', on the positivism-lebensphilosophie divide within philosophy, the division of labor, reification, & critique.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. Adorno on Theory, Practice, & Moral Philosophy
---->T.W. Adorno on the politics of theory and practice in the scheme of moral philosophy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: GASTON BACHELARD on Surrationalism
---->Gaston Bachelard's Surrationalism and a revolution in reason.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Mikhail Bakunin
---->Bakunin on philosophical materialism vs. idealism
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: Quotes: "Myth Today" by Roland Barthes
---->How myth obliterates history and politics and naturalizes society.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Bruno Bauer
---->Bruno Bauer on Christianity, Alienation, and the Dialectics of Religious Consciousness.
---->What Romare Bearden has experienced that the European avant-garde did not.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Max Beckmann on Painting & the Intellect
---->Max Beckmann on painting, the intellect, the senses, individuality, and the abstract.
---->Key extracts from the Introduction to E.P. Thompson's Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: William Blake: The Everlasting Gospel (variant)
---->William Blake's most succinct statement opposing his antinomian Christian conception of the 'forgivenness of sins' to the 'moral virtues' of the Greek and Roman philosophers and the 'accusations of sin' that form the basis of all ruling class morality including that of orthodox Christianity.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: William Blake (2)
---->William Blake on the dialectical moment of renovation and liberation that Satan cannot find, from Jerusalem and Milton.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": William Blake, Innocence Organized
---->Commemoration of the birthday of William Blake (28 November 2000): Innocence must be organized!
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: William Blake
---->William Blake on the deliverance of individuals from states, from his illuminated work Jerusalem.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: Quotes: Bertolt Brecht: "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties"
---->A famous quote from Brecht's essay 'Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties'.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Big Bill Broonzy vs Folk Ideology
---->Big Bill Broonzy on the absurdity of authenticity in folk music.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Carnap on Wittgenstein & Esperanto
---->Carnap vs Wittgenstein, with Esperanto translation.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Noam Chomsky on Expertise & Credentials
---->Chomsky explains the openness of scientists to outsiders vs. the closed character of other specialists whose fields have less objective content.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": QUOTE: C.L.R. James on the (Post)Modern Intellectual
---->Quote from C.L.R. James on the (Post)Modern intellectual and the division of labor.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": QUOTE: C.L.R. James on Descartes & the Division of Labor
---->Quote from C.L.R. James et al on the birth and death of rationalism in the modern era.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": C.L.R. James on West Indian Writers
---->C.L.R. James delivers a wry commentary on why West Indian writers such as Wilson Harris and Orlando Patterson are incapable of delivering the sense of exhaustion and futility so characteristic of European intellectuals, using the examples of T.S. Eliot & Jean-Paul Sartre. This commentary reiterates James's ongoing contrast between the Old World & the New.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: C.L.R. James on Hegel's Dialectic
---->Quote from a letter from C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, on the secret of Hegel's dialectic.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: John Coltrane
---->A quote from John Coltrane on the life-affirming character of black music.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Max Horkheimer on Cynicism & Conformity
---->From Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer, a quote on cynicism as conformity and submissiveness.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: What Is Cynical Reason?
---->Definition of contemporary cynical reason by Peter Sloterdijk, author of Critique of Cynical Reason.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Christopher Lasch on Ironic Detachment
---->On 'Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine' from The Culture of Narcissism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Samuel R. Delany's Multiplexity
---->Simplex, complex and multiplex according to Samuel R. Delany, with additional comments about noplex and simplexity, from the science fiction novel Empire Star.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Andre Breton Out of His Element
---->Andre Breton, founder of surrealism, besieged in New York, an illustration of the difference between Europe and America.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Jeff Schmidt on Amateur & Professional Shop Talk
---->An extract on the alienation of professionals from Jeff Schmidt's book Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives, pp. 145-146.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music
---->Eric Dolphy's famous quote.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Albert Einstein (1)
---->Albert Einstein on intellectuals and the masses, specialization and the division of labor, and the quality of life.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Albert Einstein (2)
---->Albert Einstein on the essential distinctive characteristics of Western science.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Duke Ellington: "We, Too, Sing 'America'"
---->A remarkable statement by Duke Ellington on the centrality of black people to American culture and ideals (1941).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Duke Ellington Communicates Beyond Category
---->On the paradox of loneliness & communication from Duke Ellington's 'Program Note for A Concert of Sacred Music' (1965).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Ralph Ellison on Cultural Symbolism
---->Ralph Ellison on the hidden political meaning of cultural symbolism, from an unsigned editorial (1943). What is the hidden meaning of the zoot suit?
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Friedrich Engels
---->Friedrich Engels on empiricism, spiritualism, science, mysticism, & philosophical naivete.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Engels on the USA
---->Quote from a letter from Friedrich Engels to Friedrich Albert Sorge on the theoretical and intellectual backwardness of the USA.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: The Magnetized Moment
---->What was that mysterious moment that crystallized the development of the individual? Check out these most brilliant lines from Peter Shaffer's play Equus, more important than anything else in the play.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Fichte on Philosophy as the Mind's Self-Mastery"
---->How philosophy elevates the human mind.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotable Quotes from "The German Ideology" by Marx & Engels
---->From 1995: part of a project to commemorate the 150th anniversary of The Germany Ideology, emphasizing the relationship between intellectuals, the division of labor, and human development.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: When God Was a Woman
---->Hilarious paraphrase of Bakunin applied by Bob Black to feminist theology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Alvin Gouldner on Intellectuals & the Social Totality
---->Final paragraph of Against Fragmentation: The Origins of Marxism and the Sociology of Intellectuals.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Lorraine Hansberry's Humanism
---->Quotation affirming Lorraine Hansberry's humanism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotations: Hegel on Number Mysticism
---->Compilation of quotations from Hegel's writings pertinent to number mysticism, Pythagoreanism, astrology, I Ching.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Hegel on the Revolution of Consciousness
---->G.W.F. Hegel on the revolution of consciousness.
---->Quotes from Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Ruler of the Universe as Solipsist
---->Philosophical dialogue from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics
---->A long quote from Max Horkheimer's 'Materialism and Metaphysics', on the unity of positivism and lebensphilosophie (idealist metaphysics) in opposition to ontological materialism.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: William Hooker on Improvising Musicians
---->Excerpt from William Hooker's 'Jazz Ideology in the ‘80s and Beyond ', New Observations, no. 65, March 1989, p. 16.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: On Job's Dilemma & God's Injustice
---->From Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize-winning play J.B., on the modern Job.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: James Branch Cabell (1)
---->Why the creator, Koshchei the Deathless, knows neither pride nor love. A quote from Jurgen by James Branch Cabell.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Franz Kafka
---->Franz Kafka's non-identity: Jewish irony in extremis: two funny quips.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: The Philosophy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
---->Selected quotes & excerpts from Kirk's raps & lyrics.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Sigfried Kracauer
---->Sigfried Kracauer on history and non-simultaneity, also opposing the Hegelian notion of expressive totality (a term used by Louis Althusser).
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: V.I. Lenin
---->V.I. Lenin on philosophical idealism, dialectics, and the spiral of knowledge.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": V.I. Lenin: Their Abstraction & Ours
---->An annotation on Hegel's Science of Logic: on the power of abstraction.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Lukacs on Cynicism & Credulity
---->From The Destruction of Reason by George Lukacs, a quote on irrationalism and Nazism, the unity of cynicism and credulity.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: René Magritte: Explanation Explained
---->Bernard Noel explains Rene Magritte explaining explanation.
---->Quotes from Rene Magritte defending the revolutionary artist against the propagandistic Stalinist and fascist notion of folk art.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Karl Marx vs. Cynical Reason
---->Marx's conception of ideology is widely misunderstood. These excerpts illustrate Marx's rejection of the practice of explaining ideas on the basis of naked self-interest.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Karl Marx on Science, Society, & Life
---->Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844) 3 English translations including the first by Grace Lee Boggs in 1947.
Ralph Dumain: Autodidact Project: Quotes: Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis
---->Key quotes from Marx & Engels on philosophy, theory, practice, & the knowability of reality.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: "Skies of America" by Ornette Coleman
---->An inspiring excerpt from the liner notes of Ornette Coleman's album Skies of America, on the higher meaning of being American.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: THE OUTER LIMITS
---->Wisdom from the TV series The Outer Limits, 'The Sixth Finger', 14 October 1963: on man's weakness and failure to create.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Edgar Allen Poe's Eureka
---->Excerpts from Eureka: A Prose Poem on scientific truth, deduction & induction.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Red Jacket vs. Christianity
---->Subtitle: The Native American as Rationalist. Red Jacket's rejection of the white man's religion.
---->Quotes from Adolph L. Reed. Jr.'s The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Jonathan Ree on the History of Philosophy
---->Quotes excerpted from 'Philosophy and the History of Philosophy' by Jonathan Ree.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations
---->Selected philosophical quotations from Wilhelm Reich's Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: RAINER MARIA RILKE
---->Rainer Maria Rilke on Being and the Transitory.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Friedrich Schlegel on Philosophy in Music
---->On the possibility of philosophical content in music.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld
---->Extracts from 2 dialogues from 'The Pony Remark' episode of Seinfeld.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Some Reflections of Roy Wood Sellars
---->3 quotes from Reflections on American Philosophy From Within by Roy Wood Sellars.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: George Bernard Shaw (1)
---->George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan debates: Is man fundamentally evil, or is he only a coward?
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: George Bernard Shaw (3)
---->On George Bernard Shaw's preference for literature whose authors have a definite philosophy, as opposed to unphilosophical literary giants like Shakespeare and Dickens.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: George Bernard Shaw (2)
---->George Bernard Shaw on conviction and content as the prerequisites of literary style, from the preface to Man and Superman.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: For Fun: How Our Sun Warps Our Brains
---->Funny extract from science fiction novel Conquest of the Space Sea by Robert Moore Williams: how our sun warps our brains.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: The Autodidact & Intellectual Traditions
---->George W. Stocking, Jr. on Henry Thomas Buckle as an example of the idiosyncracies of the autodidact, in Victorian Anthropology.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: Leon Trotsky on the Culture of Fascism
---->Leon Trotsky on the contradictions of advanced industry and technology coupled with regressive superstitious barbarism, amalgamated in the culture of fascism, a scenario not altogether unfamiliar to us today.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: "Negativity" by Henri Wald
---->Section of Henri Wald's Introduction to Dialectical Logic with highlighted quotable quote.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Chief Adario on the White Man's Morals
---->Huron Chief Adario's diagnosis of the white man's misery.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Cynthia Ozick: "Envy; Or, Yiddish in America"
---->Excerpt from a story by Cynthia Ozick, on Yiddish language, culture, and literature, the psychology and culture of oppression, the relation between poetic purity and manual labor, and the difference between God and artifact.
Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: Zamyatin on Revolution and Heresy
---->Brief extracts from the work of early Soviet dissident writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of We, the prototype of dystopian literature later encapsulated in George Orwell's 1984.
Washington Philosophy Circle: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Philosophical Events: Calendar
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Washington Philosophy Circle: Washington DC Metropolitan Area Philosophical Events: Sites
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Washington Philosophy Circle: Home Page
---->Organization & resources for philosophical discussion in Washington, DC.
Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites
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Washington Philosophy Circle: Meetings
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Washington Philosophy Circle: New York Café Philo Discussion Topics
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---->R. Dumain reviews Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse by Charles Reitz (PDF file).
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