"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT"
BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS
compiled by Ralph Dumain
INTELLECTUAL
LIFE IN SOCIETY, CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS
(see also Emanuel & Marcet Haldeman-Julius: Guide to Web Resources & Bibliography)
Abramsky, Sasha. The House of Twenty Thousand Books. London: Halban Publishers, 2014.
Agre, Philip E. "Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society" [ms], Ethics and Information Technology 3(4), 2001, pp. 289-298.
Allen, James Sloan. The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Altamirano, Carlos; Sarlo, Beatriz. "The Autodidact and the Learning Machine", in: Sarmiento: Author of a Nation, ed. Tulio Halperín Donghi, Iván Jaksic, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Francine Masiello (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 156-68.
Altenbaugh, Richard J. Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. (Labor and Social Change)
Anstie, James. Colloquies of Common People. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1902. See also review by James Joyce, below.
Avrich, Paul. The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Baggini, Julian. "Self-Publish and Be Damned", The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 12, 2000.
Barrow, Clyde W. "Pedagogy, Politics, and Social Reform: The Philosophy of the Workers' Education Movement", Strategies, no. 2, 1989, pp. 45-66. [ISSN 1040-2136]
Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: H. Holt, 1999.
Beam, Alex. A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.
Beck, Frank O. Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s Chicago. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2000.
Beiser, Frederick C. "A Romantic Education: The Concept of Bildung in Early German Romanticism," in: Philosophers on Education: Historical Perspectives, edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (London; New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 284-299.
Ben-Zaken, Avner. Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-cultural History of Autodidacticism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Benjamin, Walter. "Unpacking my Library: A Talk about Book Collecting," in Illuminations, translated by Harry Zohn, edited and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), pp. 59-67. See also quote with links.
Blom, Philipp. To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003. Publisher description.
Bonnell, Andrew G. Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914. Leiden: Brill, 2021. (Historical Materialism book series; v. 220)
Booth, Wayne. For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Bramann, Jorn K. Self-Determination: An Anthology of Philosophy and Poetry. Rochester: Adler Publishing Company, 1984.Bruford, Walter Horace. The German Tradition of Self-cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann. London; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Brundage, Slim. From Bughouse Square to the Beat Generation: Selected Ravings. Edited & introduced by Franklin Rosemont. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1997.
Bulckaert, Barbara. "Une Lettre de L'humaniste Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-1678) Sur L'acces des Femmes au Savoir" [A letter by humanist Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78) on women's access to knowledge], Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societes [France] 2001, (13): 167-183.
Burke, Peter. The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Levitin, Dmitri. “Masters of None?” [review of Burke, The Polymath], Literary Review, November 2020.
Burnett, John; Vincent, David; Mayall, David; eds. The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography. New York: New York University Press, 1984, 1987. Volume I: 1790-1900. Volume II: 1900-1945.
Cannon, James P. [Educational Director, Workers Party] “How to Organize and Conduct a Study Class,” The Daily Worker Special Magazine Supplement, Saturday, December 13, 1924 (vol. 2, no. 227), p. 8. Reprinted in Fighting for Socialism in the “American Century” (Chippendale NSW: Resistance Books, 2001).
Carey, John. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
See: John Carey on James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom: For and Against the Masses.
Carpenter, Edmund. “Not Since Babel,” in The Future of Literacy, edited by Robert Disch (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973), Chapter 15, pp. 167-173. See excerpt (conclusion), pp. 172-173. Original publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, vol. XXVII, no. 1, March 1970, pp. 67-74.
Chapman, Rosemary. "Autodidacticism and the Desire for Culture", Nottingham French Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, Autumn 1992, pp. 84-101.
Cherry, Mike. On High Steel: The Education of an Ironworker. New York: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., 1974.
Chomsky, Noam. "The Case Against B.F. Skinner," The New York Review of Books, December 30, 1971.
Chomsky, Noam. Language and Responsibility, based on conversations with Mitsou Ronat, translated by John Viertel. New York: Pantheon, 1979. [French original: Dialogues avec Mitsou Ront. Paris: Flammarion, 1977] See quote:
Noam Chomsky on expertise & credentials
Chomsky, Noam. "Philosophers and Public Philosophy," Ethics, vol. 79, no. 1, October 1968, pp. 1-9.
Chomsky, Noam. "Rationality/Science," Z Papers Special Issue, 1995.
Chomsky, Noam. "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," The New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967.
Cobb, William H. Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Collins, Harry; Evans, Robert. Rethinking Expertise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Collins, Paul. Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. New York: Picador USA, 2001. Publisher description.
For more irresistible curiosities, see: Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations; Wunderkammern; Weekend Stubble; Athanasius Kircher Society YouTube videos. See also my blog entries on Solresol. See also my web guide & bibliography Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography on this site.
Collins, Randall. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press, 1979.
A Companion to Public Philosophy, edited by Lee McIntyre, Nancy McHugh, and Ian Olasov. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Cory, Herbert Ellsworth. The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers, A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis. New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1919.
Cotkin, George. Existential America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Craik, Edward Lillie. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Revised ed. London: George Bell, 1876 [orig. 1830].
Crane, Diana. Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.
Damon, Matt; Affleck, Ben. Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay. With an introduction by Gus Van Sant. New York: Miramax Books: Hyperion, 1997. Or see Good Will Hunting Central.
D’Angelo, Edward. The Teaching of Critical Thinking. Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner, 1971. (Philosophical Currents; vol. 1)
Davidson, Thomas. The Education of the Wage-earners; A Contribution Toward the Solution of the Educational Problem of Democracy, edited, with an introductory chapter, by Charles M. Bakewell. New York, B. Franklin, 1971. (Series title: Burt Franklin Research and Source Work Series; 772) (Selected Essays in History, Economics and Social Science; 281.)
Desmond, Adrian. “Artisan Resistance and Evolution in Britain, 1819-1848,”; Osiris, second series, vol. 3, 1987, pp. 77-110.
Di Leo, Jeffrey R. “Catastrophic Education: Saving the World with H. G. Wells,” The Comparatist, vol. 41, October 2017, pp. 152–75.
Di Leo, Jeffrey R. “Philosophy for the Masses: Haldeman-Julius, Durant, and The Story of Philosophy,” in Philosophy as World Literature, edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 261-277.
Disch, Robert, ed. The Future of Literacy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973. See also Edmund Carpenter.
Dury, John. The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650), introduction by Richard H. Popkin and Thomas F. Wright. Los Angeles: University of California, 1983. (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Publication Number 220)
Ellenbogen, Glenn C., ed. Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Readings from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. See article "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality." See also Peter Tyrer, "Personality Disorder," British Journal of Psychiatry, 179 (2001), 81-84.
Ellis, Robert. "Conformity versus Creativity? An Open Debate" [in academic philosophy], The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 22, 2nd quarter 2003, pp. 46-47.
Ferrer, Francisco. The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School, translated by Joseph McCabe. London: Watts & Co., 1913. See more materials on Francisco Ferrer in the Anarchy Archives.
Fine, Gary Alan. Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Fink, Leon, et al, eds. Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, and Donald M. Reid. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. xii, 327 pp. See also Lloyd Kramer, below.
Fink, Leon. "'Intellectuals' versus 'Workers': Academic Requirements and the Creation of Labor History", in: In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 [The Working Class in American History]), pp. 201-235.
Fink, Leon. Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Finkielkraut, Alain. The Defeat of the Mind. Translation and introduction by Judith Friedlander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. (European Perspectives)
Fisher, Pamela; Fisher, Roy. "The “Autodidact”, the Pursuit of Subversive Knowledge and the Politics of Change," Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, volume 28, issue 4, December 2007, pp. 515-529.
"The Autodidact Project" is cited in this article. See also summary/review by R. Dumain.
Flaubert, Gustave. Bouvard and Pécuchet, in a new translation from the French & with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti, preface by Raymond Queneau. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. With the “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas” and the “Catalogue of Fashionable Ideas.” See also: Bouvard and Pécuchet study logic & Hegel. See also Nadeau, below.
“Founder of Bibliopsychology” [Nikolai Rubakin], The Moscow News, 2002, no. 26.
Frijhoff, Willem. "Autodidaxies, XVIe-XIXe Siecles: Jalons pour la Construction d'un Object Historique" [Self-education in the 16th-19th centuries: indicators for the construction of a historical object], Histoire de l'Education [France] 1996, (70): 5-27.
Ganahl, Rainer. Reading Karl Marx. London: Book Works, 2001. See also the web site devoted to this project, Reading Karl Marx.
Gaylor, Annie Laurie, ed. Women Without Superstition: "No Gods—No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, WI: Freedom From Religion Foundation, 1997.
Gettleman, Marvin E. Comparative International History of Left & Labor Education. 14 March 1995.
Gettleman, Marvin E. "The New York Workers School 1923-1944: Communist Education in American Society", in New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, edited by Michael E. Brown, Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten, and George Snedecker (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993), pp. 261-280.
Gettleman, Marvin E. "'No Varsity Teams': New York's Jefferson School of Social Science, 1943-1956", Science & Society, vol. 66, no.3, Fall 2002, pp. 336-359.
Gettleman, Marvin E. Project on the Comparative International History of Left Education. 1997. (Alternative URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/29/018.html)
Giacomoni, Paola. "Paideia as Bildung in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment." Paper presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 10-16 August 1998.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982.
Gouldner, Alvin W. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class: A Frame of Reference, Theses, Conjectures, Arguments, and an Historical Perspective on the Role of Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in the International Class Contest of the Modern Era. New York: Seabury Press, 1979. (Dark Side of the Dialectic; v. 2) See extracts: Alvin Gouldner on the New Class & the Culture of Critical Discourse.
Grafton, Anthony. The Footnote: A Curious History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Grayling, A.C. "A Question of Discrimination," The Guardian, 13 July 2002. Reprinted under title "The Left and High Culture," in The Mystery of Things (London: Phoenix, 2004), pp. 76-88.
Green, James. Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Gross, Bertram. Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America. New York M. Evans, 1980.
Gross, John. The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life Since 1800. 2nd ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1991.Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982.
Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1993.
Gross, Ronald; Osterman, Paul; eds. Individualism: Man in Modern Society. New York: Laurel [Dell], 1971.
Gruber, Helmut. Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture 1919-1934. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Gunn, John W. E. Haldeman-Julius: The Man and His Work. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. (Little Blue Book; no. 678)
Habermas, Jürgen. "Heinrich Heine and the Role of the Intellectual in Germany", in: The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, edited and translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, introduction by Richard Wolin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp. 71-99.
Hafner, Katie. "Web Sites Begin to Get Organized, on Their Own", The New York Times, January 18, 2001, pp. G1, G7.
Hailey, Kendall. The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter. New York: Delacorte Press, 1988. For reviews, see: Bill's Best Autodidact; Andrew Smallman, PSCS Newsletter.
Haldeman-Julius, E. (See also Emanuel & Marcet Haldeman-Julius: Guide to Web Resources & Bibliography)
Haldeman-Julius, E. The First Hundred Million. New York: Arno Press, 1974 [c1928].
Haldeman-Julius, E. The World of Haldeman-Julius, with a foreword by Harry Golden, compiled by Albert Mordell. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960.
Haldeman-Julius, Marcet. What the Editor's Wife Is Thinking About. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. (Little Blue Book; no. 809)
Hall, Edith; Stead, Henry. A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain. London; New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Harvey, Joy. Almost a Man of Genius: Clémence Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Hecht, Jennifer Michael. Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. New York: Harper San Francisco, 2003.
Herder, Dale M. "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture", Journal of Popular Culture, vol. IV, no. 4, Spring 1971, pp. 881-891.
Herder, Dale M. "The Little Blue Books as Popular Culture: E. Haldeman-Julius' Methodology," in: New Dimensions in Popular Culture, ed. Russel B. Nye (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972), pp. 31-42.
Herzog, Don. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Higbie, Tobias. Labor’s Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Hill, Jason D. Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000.
Hobsbawm, E. J.; Scott, Joan Wallach. "Political Shoemakers", Past and Present, no. 89, Nov. 1980, pp. 86-114.
Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Hossenfelder, Sabine. “What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists,” Aeon, 11 August 2016.
How to Study: A Guide for Students. Attributed to Harry K. Wells and dated by internal evidence. New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, 1954. Pamphlet, 16 pp.
Inkeles, Alex. Exploring Individual Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers' Notes in Books, 1700-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
Jacoby, Russell. Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. New York: Doubleday, 1994.Jacoby, Russell. The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999.
Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.
Joyce, James. “An Effort at Precision in Thinking” (1903): review of James Anstie, Colloquies of Common People (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1902), in The Critical Writings of James Joyce, edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann (New York: The Viking Press, 1964), p. 96. Also in other editions.
Kadi, Joanna. Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996.
Keegan, Bridget. "Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry." Romanticism On the Net 27 (August 2002): 77 pars.
Keene, Judith. "'The Word Makes the Man': A Catalan Anarchist Autodidact in the Australian Bush", Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 47, no. 3, 2001, pp. 311-329.
Kelley, Alfred, trans., ed., intro. The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Kelley, Donald R. The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History. Aldershot, UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.
Kelley, Donald R., ed. History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997.
Kershaw, Angela. "Autodidacticism and Criminality in Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Edith Thomas's L'Homme Criminel", The Modern Language Review, vol. 96, pt. 3, July 2001, pp. 679-92.
Kett, Joseph F. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990. Stanford University Press, 1994.
Kiernan, V.G. "Labour and the Literate in Nineteenth-Century Britain", chapter 7 of Poets, Politics and the People, ed. Harvey J. Kaye (London; New York: Verso, 1989), pp. 152-177.
Kornbluh, Joyce L. A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Kramer, Lloyd. "Habermas, Foucault, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Intellectuals", in: Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, Donald M. Reid (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), chapter 2: pp. 29-50.
Kurinsky, Philip. The Intellectual and the Worker. New York: Workers’ Educational League, 1921[?]. 36 pp.
La Vopa, Anthony. "Conceiving a Public: Ideas and Society in 18th-century Europe," Journal of Modern History, 64 (1992): 79-116.
La Vopa, Anthony J. Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
La Vopa, Anthony J. Prussian Schoolteachers: Profession and Office, 1763-1848. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. See also National Yiddish Book Center.
Leder, Drew. The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Lenin, V. I. Book Review: N. A. Rubakin, Among Books (Vol. II. Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1913. Second Edition). Published: Prosveshcheniye No. 4, April 1914. See: Lenin, Collected Works (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972), Volume 20, pp. 259-261. [Also published in Lenin and Books—link inactive]. See also Lenin’s contribution to Rubakin’s volume: On Bolshevism. See also Letter to N. A. Rubakin, January 25, 1913, in Lenin, Collected Works (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), Volume 35, p. 73. [Also Letter to N. A. Rubakin, January 25, 1913 in Lenin and Books (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971), p. 125—link inactive.]
Lenin, V. I. “The Journal Svoboda” (1901), in Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 5 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961), pp. 311-312.(First published in Bolshevik, No. 2, 1936.) On popularization vs. vulgar propagandizing.
Lepp, Ignace. The Art of Being an Intellectual. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Lilge, Frederic. "Lenin and the Politics of Education," Slavic Review, vol. 27, no. 2, June 1968, pp. 230-257.
Linkon, Sherry Lee, ed. Teaching Working Class. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Texbook Got Wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Loewen, James W. Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2009. For more, see:
Something Has Gone Very Wrong... The Homepage of James W. Loewen.
London, Steven H., et al, eds. The Re-education of the American Working Class, edited by Steven H. London, Elvira R. Tarr, and Joseph F. Wilson; foreword by Joseph S. Murphy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (Contributions in Labor Studies; no. 31)
Lyons, Martyn. "The Autodidacts and Their Literary Culture: Working-Class Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century France", Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, Sept.-Dec. 1991, pp. 264-273.
Lyons, Martyn. "La Culture litteraire des travailleurs. Autobiographies ouvrieres dans l'Europe du XIXe siecle" [The Literary Culture of Workers. Worker Autobiographies in 19th-Century Europe], Annales [Paris, ISSN 0395-2649], 2001, 56, 4-5, July-Oct, 927-946.
Lyons, Martyn. Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xi, 208 pp.
Lyons, Martyn. The Reading Experience of Worker-Autobiographers in 19th-Century Europe. Paper presented to International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, 2000: Panel on The Social Practice of Reading & Writing. 32 pp.
Lysaker, John T. Emerson and Self-Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Macdonald, Dwight. "The Book-of-the-Millennium Club," in Against the American Grain: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture (New York: Vintage Books, 1965), pp. 243-261.
Magris, Claudio. Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea, translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh (London: The Harvill Press, 1997), pp. 269-270. See Curvaceous Enlightenment.
Maidment, Brian, ed. The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain. Manchester: Carcanet, 1987.
Manguel, Alberto. A History of Reading. New York: Viking, 1996.
Manguel, Alberto. The Library at Night. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2006. Publisher description. Sample text.
Marples, Morris. Romantics at School. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1967.
Mattelart, Armand. The Invention of Communication. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
McCormack, A. Ross, introduction; Brammel, Libertas. "The Great Tribulation: Winnipeg's First General Strike", Labour / Le Travailleur [Canada], vol. 4, no. 4, 1979, pp. 187-209. Includes the text of the prophetic novel The Great Tribulation, written in 1902 under the nom de plume "Libertas Brammel".
Melnikova, Katya. "Enlightenment Ideology of the 19th Century and the Formation of the Attitude to Reading the Bible in a Contemporary Russian Village." Paper presented at the Fourth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism, April 2002.
Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. (The Culture of Jewish Modernity)
Michael, John. Anxious Intellects : Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, And Enlightenment Values. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. See review by R. Dumain.
Mishler, Paul C. Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Morus, Iwan Rhys. Shocking Bodies: Life, Death & Electricity in Victorian England. Stroud: The History Press, 2011.
See also: Ada Lovelace, electricity, ideology & Victorian science, reviewed by R. Dumain.
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1994.
Nadeau, Maurice. The Greatness of Flaubert, translated by Barbara Bray (New York, Library Press, 1972), chapter 17:� Bouvard and P�cuchet, pp. 261-279. see also Flaubert, above.
Nettl, J. P. "Ideas, Intellectuals, and Structures of Dissent," in On Intellectuals: Theoretical and Case Studies, ed. Philip Rieff (New York: Doubleday, 1969), pp. 53-122.
Ollman, Bertell. How to Take an Exam . . . and Remake the World. Montréal; New York; London: Black Rose Books, 1991.
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Osborne, John W. "Thoughts on Autodidacticism", Modern Age, vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 190-192.
Philips, Michael. The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies, and Delusions. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2008.
Phillips, Christopher. Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Pierson, Stanley. British Socialists: the Journey from Fantasy to Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
_____________. Leaving Marxism: Studies in the Dissolution of an Ideology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.
_____________. Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism: The Struggle for a New Consciousness. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1973.
_____________. Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Playing With Technology in History conference, April 29-30, 2010, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.
Powys, John Cowper. In Spite of: A Philosophy for Everyman. London: Macdonald, 1953.
Powys, John Cowper. The Secret of Self Development. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1926. London: Village Press, 1974. (Little Blue Book; no. 112) See also:
The Powys Society.
John Cowper Powys and William Blake by Michael Grenfell
Poynter, Dan; Bingham, Mindy; Stryker, Sandy, ed. Is There a Book Inside You?: How to Successfully Author a Book Alone or in Collaboration. Santa Barbara, CA: Para Publishing, 1985.
Priestman, Martin. Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; 37)
Priestman, Martin. "Temples and Mysteries in Romantic Infidel Writing." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002): 16 pars.
Private Libraries and Their Documentation, 1665-1830: Studying and Interpreting Sources, edited by Rindert Jagersma, Helwi Blom, Evelien Chayes, Ann-Marie Hansen. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. (Open access.)
Pyenson, Lewis; Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month-Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Rancière, Jacques. "Democracy Means Equality" [interview], Radical Philosophy, no. 82, March/April 1997. See also Jacques Rancière - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Rancière, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. Translated with an introduction by Kristin Ross. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991. Free download of book.
Rancière, Jacques. The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. Translated by John Drury; introduction by Donald Reid. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Rée, Jonathan. Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
Rée, Jonathan. "Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?", Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-7.
The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1992.
Rieff, Philip, comp. On Intellectuals: Theoretical Studies, Case Studies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. x, 347 pp.
Robbins, Derek. The Rise of Independent Study: The Politics and the Philosophy of an Educational Innovation, 1970-87. Milton Keynes, England; Philadelphia, PA, USA: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1988.
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Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, 2003.
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Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. New York: Viking, 2004.
Author's web site: The Mind at Work
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Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich. Power and the Divison of Labor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.
Ruff, Allen. "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Ryan, William F. “Bertrand Russell and Haldeman-Julius: Making Readers Rational,” Russell, nos. 29-32 (original series, 1978), pp. 53-64.
Said, Edward. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
Samuel, Raphael. “British Marxist Historians 1880-1980. Part I,” NLR I, no. 120 March-April 1980, pp. 21-96.
“The preponderance of classical history in early Marxist work may be said to reflect, in some sort, the centrality of classics in literary discourse and higher education, and indeed also, as readers of Jude the Obscure or Alfred Williams’ Life in a Railway Factory will recall, in the intellectual formation of working class auto-didacts.”
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Nausea, translated from the French by Lloyd Alexander; introduction by Richard Howard. New York: New Directions, 2007. See also:
Sassoon, Anne Showstack. "The People, Intellectuals and Specialised Knowledge", Boundary 2, vol. 14, no. 3, Spring 1986, pp. 137-168.
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Scates, Bruce. '"Knowledge is Power": Radical Literary Culture and the Experience of Reading' [in Australia]. 29 Sept. 1998. Paper contributed to the Second History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) Conference, State Library of NSW, Sydney, 10-11 August 1996.
Schalk, David L. “Professors as Watchdogs: Paul Nizan’s Theory of the Intellectual and Politics,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 34, No. 1, January - March 1973, pp. 79-96.
Schmidt, Jeff. Disciplined Minds : A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and The Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. See also quote on this site:
Jeff Schmidt on Amateur & Professional Shop Talk
Jeff Schmidt on Ideology and Professionals
Scott, Mark. 1978. "The Little Blue Books in the War on Bigotry and Bunk," Kansas History, vol. 1, no. 3, Autumn 1978, pp. 155-76.
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Sokal, Alan D; Bricmont, Jean. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science. New York: Picador USA, 1998.
Solomon, Joan. The Passion to Learn: An Inquiry into Autodidactism. London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
Contents:
List of illustrations vii
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction JOAN SOLOMON 1
1 Theories of learning and the range of autodidactism JOAN SOLOMON 3
2 Are autodidacts creative? MARGARET BODEN 24
3 Children in an Interactive Science Centre HELEN BROOKE AND JOAN SOLOMON 32
4 Do autodidacts have EBD? PAUL HOWARD 44
5 Homo Ludens ROBIN HODGKIN 53
6 Learning to be a genetic counsellor: patterns of life-world knowledge VIVIAN LEYSER DA ROSA AND JOAN SOLOMON 62
7 Apprenticeship and lifelong learning: autodidactism in the workplace RICHARD EDWARDS 73
8 Learning autonomously to be a primary teacher of science STEPHEN LUNN 85
9 The scientist as autodidact JOHN ZIMAN 97
10 The autodidactic museum in France and other countries PAUL CARO 106
11 The useful arts TIM HUNKIN 115
12 Indian market women and their mathematics ANITA RAMPAL 122
13 How does resource-based learning help the self-directed learner? EILEEN SCANLON 135
14 Learning through project work at the University of Roskilde ALBERT PAULSEN 147
15 A long life of learning JACK DIAMOND 158
16 Common features JOAN SOLOMON 165
17 Useful theories, great and small JOAN SOLOMON 184
Epilogue: Implications for Education JOAN SOLOMON 207
Index 214
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Stebbins, Robert A. Amateurs: On the Margin between Work and Leisure. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979.
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Traugott, Mark, ed. The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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Warburton, Nigel. "Philosophy and the Public", New British Philosophy: The Interviews, edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (London; New York: Routledge, 2002), Chapter 16, pp. 271-286.
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White, Curtis. The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. Quotations from the book. See also a negative review by Dan Schnieder on hackwriters.com. For other reviews, see The Complete Review. See also editorial and especially customer reviews on amazon.com.
Whitehead, Fred; Muhrer, Verle, eds. Freethought on the American Frontier. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings: First National Conference on Workers Education in the United States. New York: Workers Education Bureau of America, 1921.
Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life, edited by Peter Oresick & Nicholas Coles. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Zijderveld, Anton C. The Abstract Society: A Cultural Analysis of Our Time (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970); see section of chapter 7 (The Need for Intellectual Asceticism), pp. 166-168.
PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
(Library of Congress Subject Heading:
Children and philosophy)
(Section created 21 July 2009)
Barker, Dan. Just Pretend: A Freethought Book For Children; illustrated by Alma Cuebas. Madison, WI: Freedom from Religion Foundation, 1988.
Barker, Dan. Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide For Young Thinkers; illustrated by Brian Strassburg. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Barker, Dan. Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide For Young Skeptics; illustrated by Brian Strassburg. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Bennett, Helen. Humanism, What's That?: A Book For Curious Kids. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005.
D'Angelo, Edward. "Education and Revolutionary Change," in: Dialectical Perspectives in Philosophy and Social Science, edited by Pasquale N. Russo et al (Amsterdam: B.R. Grüner, 1983), pp. 135-145.
D'Angelo, Edward. "The Ideological Nature of Teaching Philosophy to Children," Revolutionary World, vol. 26, 1978, pp. 58-59.
The Dead Philosophers’ Café: An Exchange of Letters for Children and Adults by Nora K. and Vittorio Hösle; translated by Steven Rendall. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. (A series of letters between a professor of philosophy and an 11-year-old girl.)
DeCesare, Anthony. “High School Philosophy, Then and Now: A Surge of Interest in the Teaching of Philosophy in American High Schools from 1954-1968 and New Possibilities for Today.” Conference presentation, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, 2010.
Hand, Michael; Winstanley, Carrie; eds. Philosophy in Schools. London; New York: Continuum, 2008.
Harris, Leonard, ed. Children in Chaos: A "Philosophy for Children" Experience. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1991.
Kaye, Sharon M.; Thomson, Paul. More Philosophy For Teens: Examining Reality and Knowledge; illustrated by Jon Compton. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, 2008.
Contents: The self. Who am I? — Am I the same person I used to be? — Am I free? — How should I live? — Knowledge. Is knowledge the greatest virtue? — Can computers think? — What is it like to be somebody else? — What if tomorrow never comes? — The universe. Is the world around us real? — Does the universe have a beginning? — Is the universe finite or infinite in size? — What is the difference between genuine science and pseudoscience? — God. Is the natural world an accident? — Is it reasonable to believe? — What is the meaning of life?
Kaye, Sharon M.; Thomson, Paul. Philosophy for Teens: Questioning Life's Big Ideas. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press, 2007. Contents.
Laverty, Megan. "Kate Gordon Moore (1878-1963): A Precursor to Philosophy for Children," Thinking, vol. 18, no. 1, 2006, pp. 4-14.
Lipman, Matthew. Natasha: Vygotskian Dialogues. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Lipman, Matthew; Sharp, Ann Magaret; eds. Growing up with Philosophy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.
Lipman, Matthew; Sharp, Ann Magaret; Oscanyan, Frederick S. Philosophy in the Classroom. 2nd. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.
Matthews, Gareth B. Philosophy and the Young Child. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Matthews, Gareth B. The Philosophy of Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
McGowan, Dale, ed. Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion; foreword by Michael Shermer. New York: American Management Association, 2007. Contents.
McGowan, Dale; et al. Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief. New York: AMACOM, American Management Association, 2009.
Contents: The inquiring mind — Living and teaching ethics in your family — Secular family, religious world — The physical self — Ingredients of a life worth living — Celebrating life — Death and life — Finding and creating community — The grab bag.
"Philosophy for Children," edited by Terrell Ward Bynum and Matthew Lipman, special issue of Metaphilosophy, vol. 7, no. 1, January 1976. (89 pp.)
Turgeon, Wendy C. "Metaphysical Horizons of Philosophy for Children." Paper presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 10-16 August 1998.
White, David A. The Examined Life: Advanced Philosophy for Kids. Waco, TX: Prufrock Press Inc., 2005. Contents.White, David A. Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder About Everything! Waco, TX: Prufrock Press Inc., 2000.
PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY
(See also British Marxism in Philosophy,
Science, and Culture Before the New Left: Essential Historical Surveys)
Boxley, Simon. “Red, Black and Green: Dietzgen's Philosophy Across the Divide” (9 February 2008).
Bricianer, Serge. Pannekoek and the Workers' Councils, intro. by John Gerber, trans. by Malachy Carroll. St. Louis, MO: Telos Press, 1978.
Buick, Adam. “Joseph Dietzgen - The Workers Philosopher,” Radical Philosophy 10, Spring 1975.
Burns, Tony. “Joseph Dietzgen and the History of Marxism,” Science & Society, vol. 66, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 202-227.
Casey, Fred. Method in Thinking: A Series of Popular Lectures. Manchester: South-East Lancashire Labour College, 1933.
Casey, Fred. Thinking: An Introduction to Its History and Science. London: The Labour Publishing Company Ltd., 1922.
Dietzgen, Eugene. “An Illustration of the Proletarian Method of Research and Conception of the World. Max Stirner and Joseph Dietzgen” (March 1905), in Some of the Philosophical Essays on Socialism and Science, Religion, Ethics, Critique-of-reason and the World-at-large by Joseph Dietzgen (Chicago: Charles Kerr & Co., 1906), pp. 35-77. Translated by Ernest Untermann, slightly improved by Richard O. Hamill and Svein O. G. Nyberg (Edinburgh 1998).
Dietzgen, Eugene. Some of the Philosophical Essays on Socialism and Science, Religion, Ethics, Critique-of-reason and the World-at-large, translated by M. Beer and Th. Rothstein; with biographical sketch and introduction by Eugene Dietzgen, translated by Ernest Untermann; edited by Eugene Dietzgen and Joseph Dietzgen, Jr. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906. 1917 edition downloadable from Google Books.
Dietzgen, Joseph. The Positive Outcome of Philosophy. Introduction by Dr. Anton Pannekoek; translated by Ernest Untermann; edited by Eugene Dietzgen and Joseph Dietzgen, Jr. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906. Includes “The Nature of Human Brain Work,” “Letters on Logic,” “The Positive Outcome of Philosophy.” archive.org; Project Gutenberg; HathiTrust.
Easton, Loyd D. "Empiricism and Ethics in Dietzgen," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 1958, pp. 77-90.
Engels, Friedrich. Letter: Engels to Marx in London; Manchester, 6 November 1868; in Marx Engels Collected Works, Volume 43: Marx & Engels 1868-70: Letters: April 1868 - July 1870 (New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 152-153.
Feely, Catherine. "From Dialectics to Dancing: Reading, Writing and the Experience of Everyday Life in the Diaries of Frank P. Forster," History Workshop Journal 2010 69 (1): 90-11. Abstract.
Gambone, Larry. Cosmic Dialectics, The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen. Montreal: Red Lion Press, 1996. 20 pp. See also Joseph Dietzgen Page & link to Red Lion Press. Essay also available here.
Gerber, John. “Anton Pannekoek and the Quest For an Emancipatory Socialism,” New Politics, no. 5, Summer 1988. Also at libcom.org.
Gerber, John. Anton Pannekoek and the Socialism of Workers’ Self-Emancipation, 1873-1960. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic; Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History, 1989. (Studies in Social History; 10)
Gorman, D. Joseph Dietzgen - Radical Chains.
Hankin, Ted. The End of Philosophy? September 2001.
Hitch, Marcus. “Dietzgenism,” The International Socialist Review, vol. 8, no. 5, November 1907, pp. 295-300.
Hitch, Marcus. “Joseph Dietzgen and Henry George,” The International Socialist Review, vol. IX, no. 2, August 1908, pp. 92-98.
Hitch, Marcus. “Pragmatism” [review of The Larger Aspects of Socialism by William English Walling], The International Socialist Review, vol. 14, no. 4, October 1913, pp. 234-235.
Jensen, K. M. (Kenneth Martin). Beyond Marx and Mach: Aleksandr Bogdanov's Philosophy of Living Experience. Dordrecht, Holland: Boston: D. Reidel, 1978. (Sovietica; v. 41) Note discussion of Dietzgen.
Joseph Dietzgen, excerpt from Haymarket Scrapbook (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Company, 1986).
Joseph Dietzgen Archive, Marxists Internet Archive. Includes the essays by Joseph Dietzgen from Some of the Philosophical Essays on Socialism and Science, Religion, Ethics, Critique-of-reason and the World-at-large, and Letter to Karl Marx, 7 November 1867 (from Karl Marx, Letters to Dr Kugelmann; London: Martin Lawrence).
Joseph Dietzgen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Lewis, Arthur M[orrow]. The Art of Lecturing. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co-Operative Publishers, 1912. Revised edition. Revolution’s Newstand post.
Lewis, Arthur Morrow. The Socialist Transformation of the Kantian Categorical Imperative (announcement of lecture, 1907).
Macintyre, Stuart. “Joseph Dietzgen and British Working Class Education,” Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 29 (Autumn 1974) pp. 50-4.
Macintyre, Stuart. A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
MacIver, R. M. Review: Review: Karl Vorlander, Kant und Marx. Ein Beitrag zur Philosophie des Sozialismus; Johann Plenge, Marx und Hegel; The Philosophical Review, vol. 21 (1912-09-01), pp. 592-598. Also at Google Books.
Marx, Karl. Marx to Joseph Dietzgen, 9 May 1868 (Letter), in Marx Engels Collected Works, Volume 43: Marx & Engels 1868-70: Letters: April 1868 - July 1870 (New York: International Publishers, 1975), p. 31.
Marx & Engels on Joseph Dietzgen (1867-1886).
Mehring, Franz. "Philosophy and Philosophizing" (1909), trans. Rubin Gotesky, Marxist Quarterly, April-June 1937, pp.293-297.
Nizan, Paul; Fittingoff, Paul, trans. The Watchdogs: Philosophers and the Established Order. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972. See extract: The Philosopher's Mission; in Esperanto: Misio de la Filozofo.
Osborne, Peter. "On the Jackson Trail" [Review of Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940 by Jonathan Ree], Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 30-32.
Pannekoek, Anton. Lenin as Philosopher: A Critical Examination of the Philosophical Basis of Leninism; edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Lance Byron Richey. Rev. ed. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2003. (Marquette Studies in Philosophy; no. 31)
Plekhanov, Georgi. “Joseph Dietzgen” (1907), in Georgi Plekhanov, Selected Philosophical Works, Volume 3 ( Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976), pp. 100-116.
Rée, Jonathan. Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.Rée, Jonathan. "Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?", Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-7.
Roberts, Edwin A. The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997.
Robinson, Bruce. Review of The Nature of Human Brain Work: An Introduction to Dialectics. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2011.
Starr, Mark. "La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen," Sennacieca Revuo, n-ro 94, 1966, p. 38-41. In Esperanto.
Untermann, Ernest. “Antonio Labriola and Joseph Dietzgen: A Comparison of Historical Materialism and Monist Materialism,” in Socialism and Philosophy by Antonio Labriola; translated by Ernest Untermann from the 3d Italian ed., rev. & amplified by the author (Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1907), pp. 222-260. HathiTrust; archive.org.
Untermann, Ernest. Science and Revolution. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1905. HathiTrust; Google Books.
Walden, Phil. “Why Is Dietzgen's Dialectical Materialism a Great Improvement on that of Official Communism?” Paper for Critical Realism Conference, 2004.
Waugh, Colin. “Dialectics: Learning to Think,” Workers' Liberty, no. 64-5, September 2000.
The
Workers' Councils in the theory of the Dutch-German Communist Left.
T.A. (Thomas Alfred) JACKSON
(for more complete bibliography on Jackson & related British radicals
see
British Marxism in Philosophy,
Science, and Culture Before the New Left: Essential Historical Surveys)
Anderson, John. Review of T. A. Jackson, Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics: An Essay in Exploration ( Lawrence and Wishart, 1936: pp. 648).
Jackson, T.A. Charles Dickens: The Progress of a Radical. Foreword by John Murray. New York: International Publishers, 1987.
Jackson, T.A. Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics—An Essay in Exploration. New York: International Publishers, 1936. Contents. Prologue.
Jackson, T.A. Old Friends to Keep. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1950.
Jackson, T.A. Solo Trumpet: Some Memories of Socialist Agitation and Propaganda. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953.
Morton, Vivien; Macintyre, Stuart. T. A. Jackson - Revolutionary and Working Class Intellectual: Centenary Appreciation 1879-1979. Our History, Pamphlet 73. London: Communist Party, 1979.
Thomas Alfred Jackson Archive (1879-1955)
PHILOSOPHY
AND THE
DIVISION OF LABOR
(this section moved to its own
web page 17 January 2005)
HISTORY
OF PHILOSOPHY: SPECIAL PERSPECTIVES
(see also Philosophy of History of
Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography,
Biographical
and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography,
& Philosophy
& the Division of Labor,
esp. Oizerman, Rée)
Baggini, Julian. "Discourse: Becoming a Philosopher", The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 13, Winter 2001, pp. 28-29.
Baggini, Julian. “What Philosophers Are Really Like,” The Philosophers' Magazine.
Bontempo, Charles J.; Odell, S. Jack; eds. The Owl of Minerva: Philosophers on Philosophy. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. See esp. Herbert Marcuse, "The Relevance of Reality," pp. 231-244. See also Adam Schaff, "What Philosophers Do," pp. 179-189.
Cevallos Estarellas, Pablo. "Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise," Philosophy Now, Issue 63, September/October 2007, pp. 12-15.
Chrucky, Andrew. "Philosophical Influence: Statistically Determined."
Chrucky, Andrew. Philosophy of __________; __________ of Philosophers.
Coniglione, Francesco. “Leszek Nowak, a Neglected Thinker,” Organon F 30 (2) 2023: 130–136.
Collins, Randall. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Cotkin, George. "Middle-Ground Pragmatists: The Popularization of Philosophy in American Culture," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 55, no. 2, April 1994, 283-302.
Gedö, András. “The Contemporary Attack on Science”, Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 3, no. 2, 1990, pp. 179-195.
Gedö, András. Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy. Translated by Salomea Genin; edited by Doris Grieser Marquit. Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press, 1982. (Studies in Marxism; v. 11) [Original German edition: Philosophie der Krise. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978.]
Gedö, András. "Why Marx or Nietzsche?", Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 11, no. 3, 1998, pp. 331-346.
Hamlyn, D.W. Being a Philosopher: The History of a Practice. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. See also review by Ross.
Lawler, James; Shtinov, Vladimir. "Hegel's Method of Doing Philosophy Historically: A Reply", in: Doing Philosophy Historically, edited by Peter H. Hare (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988), pp. 267-280.
Levi, Albert William. Philosophy as Social Expression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. See Descartes' Dualism (Extract from Chapter 4) & "Philosophy's Historic Fate: Museum Pieces, Messages, and Classics" (Chapter 6, Conclusion).
Lukács, Georg. The Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer. London: The Merlin Press, 1980. See also Nietzsche as Founder of Irrationalism in the Imperialist Period (Chapter III).
Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. System and History in Philosophy: On the Unity of Thought and Time, Text and Explanation, Solitude and Dialogue, Rhetoric and Truth in the Practice of Philosophy and its History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Philosophy and Its Past by Jonathan Rée, Michael Ayers, Adam Westoby. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: The Humanities Press, 1978.
Radin, Paul. Letters to Edward Sapir, Jan. 27, 1914 & Feb. 19, 1916, with headnote by Grant Arndt, Burckhardtian Culture History and the "Durkheim-Mauss Bug" in Paul Radin’s Letters to Edward Sapir [HAN 25: 1998#1]. Against Franz Boas' collectivist assumptions, affirming the importance of the individual in ethnology.
Radin, Paul. Primitive Man as Philosopher; with a foreword by John Dewey. 2d rev. ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1957.
Smith, Justin E. H. What Is 'Non-Western' Philosophy? Part One. 3 Quarks Daily, December 7, 2009.
Rancière, Jacques. The Philosopher and his Poor; edited and with an introduction by Andrew Parker; translated by John Drury, Corinne Oster, and Andrew Parker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Read, Jason. "The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History, and Temporality," borderlands e-journal, volume 4 number 2, 2005.
Rée, Jonathan. I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses—A Philosophical History. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
Ross, George MacDonald. Review of: Hamlyn, D.W., Being a Philosoper: The History of a Practice. December 2000.
Ruben, David-Hillel. "Traditions and True Successors," Social Epistemology, vol. 27, no. 1, 2013.
Saarinen, Esa; Uschanov, T. P. Philosophy as a Service Industry, or, Reintroducing the Philosophical Life. 1998.
Skillen, Anthony. Ruling Illusions: Philosophy and the Social Order. Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1977. (Philosophy Now)
Sloterdijk, Peter. Critique of Cynical Reason. Translation by Michael Eldred; foreword by Andreas Huyssen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (Theory and History of Literature; v. 40)
Smith, Justin E. H. The Philosopher: A History in Six Types. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.
Sorokin, Pitirim: Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law, and Social Relationships; with a new introduction by Michel P. Richard. Rev. and abridged in one vol. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1985 [c1957].
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Wolin, Richard. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism: From Nietzsche to Postmodernism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
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Blom, Philipp. A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Bronner, Stephen Eric. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
D’Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis. Thérèse & Angelica, translated by Paul Anhalt; introduction by John E. Wright. North Hollywood, CA: Brandon House, 1968.
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Darnton, Robert. The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1979.
Darnton, Robert. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Darnton, Robert. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Denby, David. “Northern Lights: How Modern Life Emerged from Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh” [review of James Buchan, Crowded with Genius], The New Yorker, October 11, 2004.
Diderot, Denis. Diderot, Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings, translated by Jean Stewart and Jonathan Kemp, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Kemp. 2nd ed. New York: International Publishers, 1963. viii, 358 pp. (1st ed. 1937)Dlugach, Tamara. Denis Diderot, translated by Catherine Judelson. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988. 237 pp. (Originally published in Russian, 1975.)
L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert
The ARTFL Encyclopédie | ARTFL Encyclopédie Project
Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project
Enlightenment Rationalism and the Origins of Marxism [A Spartacist Pamphlet]. New York: Spartacist Publishing Co., March 1998. 48 pp.
Epicurus in the Enlightenment, edited by Neven Leddy and Avi S. Lifschitz. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009.
Frängsmyr, Tore; Heilbron, J.L.; Rider, Robin E.; eds. The Quantifying Spirit in the 18th Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Entire book online.
The French Book
Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
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Israel, Jonathan I. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Israel, Jonathan I. A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Jacob, Margaret C. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons, and Republicans . London; Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1981. (Early Modern Europe Today; 3) Introduction.
Levitin, Dmitri. The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Lebrun, Richard A. Review of McMahon, Darrin M., Enemies of the Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. H-Catholic, H-Net Reviews. January, 2002.
Munck, Thomas. The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History 1721-1794. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Nall, Jeff. Condorcet: Male Prophet of Feminism, by Jeff Nall.
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Stark, Sam. Diderot: French Philosopher and Father of the Encyclopedia. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2006. (Philosophers of the Enlightenment) For young adults.
Sternhell, Zeev. The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, translated by David Maisel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Voltaire. Candide and Other Stories, translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Voltaire Foundation - for Enlightenment studies
Vyverberg, Henry. Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958.
Review of Henry Vyverberg, Historical Pessimism in the French Enlightenment, French Studies 14 (1960), 167–70.
Endore, Guy. Voltaire! Voltaire! A novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Also published as:
The Heart and the Mind: the Story of Rousseau and Voltaire. London: W.H. Allen, 1962.
Santis, Pablo de. Voltaire’s Calligrapher: a Novel, translated by Lisa Carter. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. (Original Spanish publication, 2001.) See also the publisher’s page with sample (chapters 1-3). See also:
Voltaire’s Calligrapher & the automatons, with commentary by R. Dumain.
Kristofferson, Kriss. “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” Kristofferson (album), 1970. Recording,
Dickey, Laurence. Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770-1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. (Ideas in Context)
Ripalda, Jose Maria. The Divided Nation: The Roots of a Bourgeois Thinker: G.W.F. Hegel. Assen; Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1977.
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Allen, Norm R., Jr. African-American Humanism: An Anthology. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.
Allen, Norm R., Jr., ed. The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.
Allen, Norm R., Jr. “Religion and the New African American Intellectuals,” Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 9, no. 2 (1996), pp. 159-187.
Allen, Norm R., Jr. Tradition—‘the Dead Hand of Human Progress’?, August 23, 2008.
Alleyne, Brian W. Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics. New York: Berg, 2002.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. “On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher” [Amo Afer], Literary Hub, August 29, 2018.
Ards, Angela. "Black
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Black History and Culture", QBR:
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Banks, William M. Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Barbera, Donald R. Black and Not Baptist: Nonbelief and Freethought in the Black Community. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2003.
Bey-Greenhouse, Jamila. "Farthest Back in the Closet," Skepchick Magazine, Issue 2, February 15, 2006.
Bey-Greenhouse, Jamila. " The Gospel of Judas," Skepchick Magazine, Issue 5, May 15, 2006.
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Brown, Lloyd L.; Washington, Mary. “Lloyd L. Brown Talks to Mary Helen Washington: Writing the Collective Narrative (Route One Interview),” Route One [University of Maryland, College Park], vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1996, pp. 64-78.
Cain, Rudolph A. "Andragogy and the Education of African American Adults, in: The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education, edited by Leonard Harris (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999), pp. 251-262.
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Charles Johnson, Black American Philosopher & Novelist: Select Bibliography.
Childs, John Brown. Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Cleaver, Eldridge. Revolution and Education, March 1969. Also published as Education and Revolution.
Crowder, Ralph L. John Edward Bruce: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora. New York: New York University Press, 2004. Table of contents. Publisher description.
Calvin L. Hall. Review of Crowder, Ralph L., John Edward Bruce: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora. Jhistory, H-Net Reviews. February, 2007.
Crowder, Ralph L. "Street Scholars and Stepladder Radicals: A Harlem Tradition," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 2006.
Crowder, Ralph L. "Willis Nathaniel Huggins (1886-1941): Historian, Activist, and Community Mentor," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 2006.
Danky, James P.; Wiegand, Wayne A.; eds. Print Culture in a Diverse America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
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Pamphlet used in syllabus of Dr. Blanche Radford Curry, Philosophy 212, African American Philosophy, Spring 1998.
Diedrich, Maria. Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Education of Black People; Ten Critiques, 1906-1960. Edited by Herbert Aptheker. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973.
Edgcomb, Gabrielle Simon. From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges. Foreword by John Hope Franklin. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1993.
Television documentary from Cinema Guild issued in 2000, televised on PBS. See also Dumain’s comment on PBS Talkback.
Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb collection (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Estes, Mike. Black Freethought and The Civil Rights Movement in the Mid 20th Century, radio interview, 16 February 2007.
Fabre, Michel. Richard Wright: Books & Writers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
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Hairston, Eric Ashley. The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013.
Harris, Leonard, ed. Children in Chaos: A "Philosophy for Children" Experience. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1991.
Harris, Leonard, ed. Philosophy Born of Struggle: Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983.
The Hubert Harrison Center. The C.L.R. James Institute presents an information center for publications and activities relating to the hottest new development in Black Studies, the scholarly resurrection of West Indian-American "father of Harlem radicalism" Hubert Henry Harrison, autodidact, soap box orator, militant atheist, literary critic, political organizer, also termed the "Black Socrates".
Hubert H. Harrison Papers, 1893-1927. MS# 1411, Columbia University Libraries, 2007.
Hubert Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. With numerous links.
Jackson, John G. "The Black Atheists of The Harlem Renaissance: (1917-1928)", talk given at 1984 American Atheists convention. See also this web page on Africa Within. See also profile and other texts by John G. Jackson.
Jackson, John G. Hubert Henry Harrison: The Black Socrates. Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1987.
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The First Congregational Church of Great Barrington — T. Thomas Fortune's New York Globe (Freeman) and Great Barrington's very religious and strange settlers — From a Christian pragmatism to social science —Fisk, Harvard, and Berlin — Silent times: the preacher, the scholar, and the American Negro Academy — As the crow flies — The agnostic pulpit: The Crisis: a record of the darker races — Epilogue: The great Ghandi, The prophet of Communism, and agnostic legacy.
Kelley, Norman. The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics. New York: Nation Books [Distributed by Publishers Group West], 2004.
Lackey, Michael. African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. Contents.
Lindhorst, Marie. "Politics in a Box: Sarah Mapps Douglass and the Female Literary Association 1831-1833", Pennsylvania History, vol. 65, no. 3, 1998, pp. 263-278.
McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. See review of Epilogue.
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Miller, Eugene E. Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
Morrissey, Anne-Marie. "Beyond the Image: The Giftedness of Jimi Hendrix", Roeper Review, vol. 24., no.1, Fall 2001, pp. 5-11. [Full text available online through Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson Company) and other services.]
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Perlstein, Daniel. "Minds Stayed on Freedom: Politics and Pedagogy in the African American Freedom Struggle." (Abridged from 2002 article.)
Perry, Jeffrey B. "Hubert Harrison: A Brief Sketch for Black History Month", The Black World Today, 18 February 1999.
Perry, Jeffrey B., ed. A Hubert Harrison Reader. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
Perry, Jeffrey B. Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Perry, Jeffrey B. "An Introduction to Hubert Harrison: 'The Father of Harlem Radicalism'", Souls, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 38-54.
Perry, Jeffrey B. Jeffrey B. Perry web site.
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Pinn, Anthony B. By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Pinn, Anthony B. “On Becoming Humanist: A Personal Journey,” Religious Humanism, volume 32, nos. 1 & 2, Winter/Spring, 1998.
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Offsite, see also Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin. On this site, see also references by Dumain to Piper:
Porter, Dorothy B. “The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846,” Journal of Negro Education, 5, (Oct. 1936), pp. 558-576.
Ragland, John. "No More Ham", American Atheist, February 1987.
Rankine, Patrice D. Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Contents.
Reed, Adolph L., Jr. The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia, edited by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. and Robert J. Butler. Westport, CT: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2008.
Ronnick, Michele Valerie. 12 Black Classicists: A website to accompany the traveling photo exhibit. Note bibliography. See also entries under Scarborough, below.
Scarborough, William Sanders. Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship, edited and with an introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick, foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Contents.
Scarborough, William Sanders. The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader, edited by Michele Valerie Ronnick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Contents. See also William Sanders Scarborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; The Works of William Sanders Scarborough. On this site see Volapük in the Black Press, 1888.
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Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney; Coates, W. Paul; Battle, Thomas C. Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1990.
Taylor, Ula. "Street Strollers: Grounding the Theory of Black Women Intellectuals," Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 2006.
Tye, Larry. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
Tyson, Neil De Grasse. The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Winch, Julie. "'You Have Talents—Only Cultivate Them': Philadelphia's Black Female Literary Societies and the Abolitionist Crusade", in: The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, eds. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 101-118. See also biographical sketches of Sarah Mapps Douglass at American National Biography and Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color.
Yeldell, Jason Scott. A Call to Sanity. 2nd ed. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006. See also author's web site A Call to Sanity.
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