"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT" by Ralph Dumain WHAT'S NEW ON THIS SITE Liubov Popova Portrait of a Philosopher 1915

31 July 2011

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated
• Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide updated
• Doubt & Skepticism: A Directed Minimal Bibliography & Web Guide
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated

30 July 2011

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide updated

27 July 2011

• Salomon Maimon’s Autobiography: On a Proposed Conversion to Christianity: links added
• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web: updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

26 July 2011
100th anniversary:
First Universal Races Congress, London, July 26-29, 1911

• First Universal Races Congress, London, July 26-29, 1911: Selected Bibliography updated

24 July 2011

• “Amor Dei Intellectualis (Baruch Spinoza)” by Nikolai Bukharin
• “Mad Prophet (Friedrich Nietzsche)” by Nikolai Bukharin
• ‘The Colossal Old Fellow’ (Hegel) by Nikolai Bukharin
• “Spinoza” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Yirmiyahu Yovel
• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated

23 July 2011

• Georg Lukács’ The Destruction of Reason: Selected Bibliography
• “To Spinoza” by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated

22 July 2011

• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

21 July 2011
8th anniversary:
Death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

• Richard Wright’s Outsider, Negroes & Flying Saucers

20 July 2011
42nd anniversary of 1st manned moon landing

• NEW: Doubt & Skepticism: A Directed Minimal Bibliography & Web Guide
• Skepticism in Soviet Philosophical Dictionaries
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated: new Martin Gardner links

18 July 2011

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

17 July 2011

• NEW: Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

15 July 2011

• External Links page updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

12 July 2011

• “The Sources of Socialist Humanism” (1963) by Ivan Sviták

11 July 2011

• "Anthropological Conditions of Modern Culture" (1964): Conclusion by Ivan Sviták

10 July 2011
Happy birthday!

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

9 July 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

8 July 2011

• The Perspectives of Philosophy (1956) by Ivan Sviták

7 July 2011

• “Does Humanism Have an Ethic of Responsibility?”: Comments by Kai Nielsen & Mihailo Marković, & Responses by Paul Kurtz
• “Historical Praxis as the Ground of Morality” by Mihailo Marković, with Comment by Paul Kurtz

5 July 2011

• “Perspectives and Contradictions in the Contemporary Development of Man” by Niculae Bellu and Alex. Tanase; Commentary by Andre Niel

3 July 2011

• “Human Nature and Present Day Possibilities of Social Development” by Mihailo Marković, Commentary by Mathilde Niel
• Humanist Ethics: Dialogue on Basics, edited by Morris B. Storer: table of contents

2 July 2011

• “Revolutionary Teleology and Ethics” by Svetozar Stojanović
• The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires: links added

30 June 2011

• Tolerance and Revolution: A Marxist-non-Marxist Humanist Dialogue, edited by Paul Kurtz and Svetozar Stojanović
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography updated

28 June 2011

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

27 June 2011

• “Theory and Practice from the Point of View of Human Needs” by Agnes Heller

25 June 2011
Happy birthday to me!

• Heidegger on the Essence of Truth by Marvin Farber

21 June 2011
Summer Solstice

• The Emanuel Fried Center: Manny Fried at a Crossroads (Excerpt from Memoir)

16 June 2011

• The Emanuel Fried Center: The Life & Work of Manny Fried: Links to Other Sites: new obits & other links
• The Emanuel Fried Center: Manny Fried's Boilermakers & Martinis now available on DVD edited

14 June 2011

• Radical Currents in Contemporary Philosophy [Preface & Contents] edited by David H. DeGrood, Dale Riepe, & John Somerville

13 June 2011

• Jevgenij Zamjatin pri Revolucio, Entropio, Dogmo & Herezo, trad. Ralph Dumain

12 June 2011

• “Critique of Idealistic Naturalism: Methodological Pollution in the Main Stream of American Philosophy” by Dale Riepe

1 June 2011

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated

31 May 2011

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated

30 May 2011

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated: new interlinguistics links

29 May 2011

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

27 May 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated
• The Emanuel Fried Center: contact information revised on home & other pages

22 May 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated
• The Emanuel Fried Center: The Life & Work of Manny Fried: Links to Other Sites: obits & other links

21 May 2011

• Manny Fried Tribute Event, Buffalo, NY, 23 May 2011 updated
• The Emanuel Fried Center: The Life & Work of Manny Fried: Links to Other Sites: obits & other links

11 May 2011

• Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

9 May 2011

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated: Stirner link added

6 May 2011

• Lumo kaj Ombro de Vasilij Eroŝenko
• “Neforgeseblaj Vortoj” de Vasilij Jakovleviĉ Eroŝenko
• “Malespera Koro” de Vasilij Eroŝenko

3 May 2011

• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated
• Leibniz & Ideology: Selected Bibliography updated

28 April 2011

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated

26 April 2011

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

22 April 2011

• “Anti‑Semitism and National Socialism” by Moishe Postone: links added
• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated

19 April 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

4 April 2011
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated 1968

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

30 March 2011

• "miraklo", poemo de Jorge Camacho

28 March 2011

• "La Kvar Patronoj de la Palestro" de Lou Harrison (traduko de "The Four Patrons of the Palaestra")
• "Nova Odo" de Lou Harrison (tradukis Bruce Kennedy el "New Ode")

25 March 2011

• The Emanuel Fried Center: Manny Fried Tribute Event, Buffalo, NY, 23 May 2011

21 March 2011

• The Emanuel Fried Center: The Life & Work of Manny Fried: Links to Other Sites: obits & other links
• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

20 March 2011

• First Universal Races Congress, London, July 26-29, 1911: Selected Bibliography updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

19 March 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated
• War with the Newts (Excerpt on the Language Problem) by Karel Čapek: links added
• "Ikonoklasmo" de Karel Čapek: retligoj aldonitaj / links added

16 March 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography updated

12 March 2011

• The Paranoia Papers: Theory of the (Un)Natural History of Social Paranoia: Selected Bibliography
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

9 March 2011

• Meera Nanda Online updated
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated

8 March 2011
International Women's Day

• External Links page updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

7 March 2011

• "Gvidilo tra la Angla Poezio" de William Auld

6 March 2011
Will Eisner's 94th birthday

• "Rimletero" (pri John I. Francis) de William Auld
• "Al la Granda Masonisto" de William Auld
• "Kapitalismo Venkis en Britujo" (26.10.1951) de William Auld

3 March 2011

• Emanuel Fried Center: Links updated: obituaries & related references
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

28 February 2011

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

26 February 2011

• "Nerimarkitaj Herboj" de Baldur Ragnarsson / "Unsung Leaves" translated by E. James Lieberman
• Emanuel Fried Center: Links updated, mostly obituaries

25 February 2011
In memoriam, Manny Fried
(March 1, 1913 - February 25, 2011)

21 February 2011

• Sander L. Gilman on Nazism, Paranoia, & Language
  (Excerpt from Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews)

20 February 2011

• Review of Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews

18 February 2011

• Two Poems ('The Volapükists' & 'The Esperantists') by Arthur Dawson Foote
• Naturista Vivo, 2-a jaro, n-ro 5, junio 1962 (p. 1)

14 February 2011

• First Universal Races Congress, London, July 26-29, 1911: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

11 February 2011

• First Universal Races Congress, London, July 26-29, 1911: Selected Bibliography
• Race, Equality of Intellect, & the History of Civilization (extract from From “Superman” to Man) by J. A. Rogers

10 February 2011

• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine: new translation added to links
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

9 February 2011

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

5 February 2011

• "A Hymn to the Peoples" by W. E. B. Du Bois

3 February 2011

• From “Superman” to Man by J. A. Rogers
  • Index
  • Religion and the Negro

2 February 2011

• Sacred Languages & Hierarchies vs. Vernaculars & Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

1 February 2011

• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated

31 January 2011

• Universal Auxiliary Language Babm (Extracts) by Fuishiki Okamoto: links added
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated

29 January 2011
Birthday of Thomas Paine
(29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809)

28 January 2011

• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo (Esperanto Games Web Guide): updated
  Listing of web page moved from "mini-bibliographies" to "study guides"

26 January 2011

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

21 January 2011

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

18 January 2011

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• External Links page updated

17 January 2011

• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• External Links page updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

15 January 2011
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)

• “Bonds of Brotherhood” by Paul Robeson

13 January 2011

• Plekhanov on “Bourgeois” Science

12 January 2011

• Midwifing the "World Brain": SIG/AH & SIG/BSS Program, 50th ASIS Annual Meeting, Boston, 1987

10 January 2011

• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

9 January 2011

• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• External Links page updated

abus7 January 2011

• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine: new translation added
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated: Stirner link added

6 January 2011

• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

3 January 2011

• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009: link added

2 January 2011

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

27 December 2010

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

24 December 2010

• "Misisipi" de Lejb Malaĥ (1894-1936) (Antaŭparolo & Biografio): links added
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

22 December 2010

• “International Language” (Universal Races Congress, 1911) by L. L. Zamenhof
• Karl Marx on Religion: Sources & Quotations: Padover table of contents added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

18 December 2010

• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009: link added

15 December 2010
151st birthday of L. L. Zamenhof,
Creator of Esperanto

Zamenhof Symposium at UN

6 December 2010

• Gentoj kaj Lingvo Internacia (1911) de L. L. Zamenhof
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography updated
• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo (Esperanto Games Web Guide): updated

5 December 2010

• Zamenhofa Naskiĝdomo ĉe la strato Zielona en Białystok de Cz. Sadowski
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

4 December 2010

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009: link added
• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo (Esperanto Games Web Guide): image added ("Monopolo")

3 December 2010

• Ideas, Intellectuals, and Structures of Dissent: Excerpts—1 by J. P. Nettl

1 December 2010

• Howard L. Parsons on Naturalism & Religion: Conclusion

30 November 2010

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated
• Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography updated

29 November 2010

• Howard L. Parsons on Naturalist vs. Supernationalist Perspectives on Value
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated
• Miscellaneous Articles & Essays on Games: Selected Bibliography updated

28 November 2010
253rd birthday of William Blake

27 November 2010

• The Partial Sociology of Philosophies: The Historical Perspective of Randall Collins (An Unfinished Review) by Ralph Dumain
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

22 November 2010

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Hermann Hesse, Esperanto, Klera Utopio, Universala Lingvo / Intellectual Utopia, Universal Language (bibliography): updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography updated

20 November 2010

• Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography updated
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

19 November 2010

• William Auld—From Introduction to Esperanto to Military Service by William Auld, translated by R. Dumain
• William Auld de Esperantiĝo al Militservo

18 November 2010

• NEW: Exotica, Curiosa, Crankery, Hoaxes, Cultural & Intellectual Arcana: Selected Web Guide & Bibliography
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• External Links page updated

16 November 2010

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

15 November 2010

• Howard L. Parsons on the Role of the Philosopher
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

14 November 2010

• Esperanto and George Orwell (preface): link added

13 November 2010

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• William Pickens: Who’s Who in Colored America: correction of links to New York Public Library

12 November 2010

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

8 November 2010

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

5 November 2010

• "How Small We Are How Little We Know" by Earl Wilson, Jr.: YouTube link added

3 November 2010

• Lloyd L. Brown Talks to Mary Helen Washington: Writing the Collective Narrative (Route One Interview)

1 November 2010

• “Mathematical Games: Counting Systems and the Relationship between Numbers and the Real World” by Martin Gardner
  [Excerpt including acknowledgments for solutions to Baker's Solitaire problem]
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated

31 October 2010

• Editorial (1992): "Zionism Is Reactionary Nationalism: Israel Is A Capitalist State"

30 October 2010

• Harold Cruse’s Attack on Jewish Communists: Comment by Sid Resnick
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated

28 October 2010

• Geoffrey Clark reviews Heads or Tails: The Poetics of Money by Jochen Hörisch

25 October 2010

• The Twix Dialogues by R. Dumain

23 October 2010

• "Theories of Knowledge: A Dialectical, Historical Critique" by Howard L. Parsons
• Science and Religion by Marcel Cachin

22 October 2010

• Ideology of/in the Natural Sciences, edited by Hilary Rose & Steven Rose
  • Ideology of/in Contemporary Physics [extract] by Jean‑Marc Lévy‑Leblon
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

21 October 2010

• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

10 October 2010

• Ideology of/in the Natural Sciences, edited by Hilary Rose & Steven Rose
  • Contents

9 October 2010
John Lennon's 70th birthday

• "Education and Revolutionary Change" by Edward D’Angelo
• “Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations)” by Hilary Rose & Stephen Rose: links added
• The Tramp Speaks! The Most Important Moment in the History of Film: The Final Speech of The Great Dictator (1940) by Charles Chaplin: YouTube link added

5 October 2010

• Man and Culture, Language, Esperanto by Pavel Gurevich

4 October 2010
53nd anniversary of Sputnik

• "Religio kaj Kapitalismo" de Simon Aarse

3 October 2010

• "La Humanisma Kadro de Julian Huxley, Evolua Etikisto" de Bernard Golden
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 October 2010
One Nation Working Together March

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo ( Esperanto Games Web Guide): updated
• Hermann Hesse, Esperanto, Klera Utopio, Universala Lingvo / Intellectual Utopia, Universal Language (bibliography): updated

28 September 2010

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

27 September 2010
In memoriam: Evelyn
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

• “Universitata Biblioteko” de Jiří Kořínek
• "Pri Falsa Konscio kaj Mistifiko" de Ladislav Podmele: retligoj aldonitaj / links added

26 September 2010

• Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R. Dumain: retligoj aldonitaj
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

25 September 2010

• Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works updated
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

24 September 2010

• "Compared to What" by Eugene McDaniels: link added

23 September 2010

• Alfred Jarry’s “How to Construct a Time Machine”: A Web Guide
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography updated

22 September 2010

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

20 September 2010

• The Question of Educational Work by Georg Lukács

18 September 2010

• Lecture 16 (9 July 1968): Introduction to Sociology by Theodor W. Adorno

15 September 2010
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

14 September 2010

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

13 September 2010

• Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” by Theodor W. Adorno
  • Lecture 7 (11 June 1959): Knowledge as Tautology
  • Lecture 16 (14 July 1959): Society · ‘Block’

10 September 2010

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web: updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

9 September 2010

• “The Second International: A Reexamination” by Andrew Arato
• Book Review, Rudolf Wolfgang Müller, Geld und Geist by Pasi Falk
• External Links page updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

8 September 2010

• The Logic of the Social Sciences by Karl R. Popper
• Definition of ’Pataphysics by Alfred Jarry
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

7 September 2010

• The Myth of Total Reason by Hans Albert
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

6 September 2010

• Introduction to Sociology by Theodor W. Adorno
  • Lecture 4 (2 May 1968)
• Laughter by Marcel Schwob
• Irony, Paradox, & Reductio ad Absurdum: Selected Online Sources
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography updated
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated

4 September 2010

• The Analytical Theory of Science and Dialectics by Jürgen Habermas

3 September 2010

• Philosophy, Child-Rearing, Education, & Children's Literature in the British Enlightenment: Selected Bibliography

1 September 2010

• “Birth of a Black Nation, or Death Throes of a Culture?” [Review of Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel by Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin, illustrated by Kyle Baker] by Ralph Dumain

29 August 2010
Charlie Parker's 90th birthday (29 August 1920 – 12 March 1955)
43rd anniversary: The Fugitive final episode
“The day the running stopped”

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

28 August 2010
47th anniversary of the March on Washington for civil rights

• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

27 August 2010
Birthday of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 Aug 1770 – 14 Nov 1831)

• "Speaking My Mind" by Juan Chi / Ruan Ji
• Ruan Ji / Juan Chi: Selected Bibliography

26 August 2010

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

25 August 2010

• Fantasy and Reason: Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Geoffrey Summerfield:
  Chapter 7: "Apotheosis of the Chap-Book"
• William Blake Study Guide updated

22 August 2010

• Collected Poems [Section Headnotes] by Jack Lindsay
  • "The Poet explains the Situation to Los and Elza-Enitharmon" by Jack Lindsay
  • "Courage" by Jack Lindsay
  • "Spinoza" by Jack Lindsay
  • "Request for Help" (to William Blake) by Jack Lindsay
  • "Giordano Bruno" by Jack Lindsay
• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold: updated
• External Links page updated

17 August 2010

• William Blake Study Guide updated
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• External Links page updated

15 August 2010

• Fantasy and Reason: Children's Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Geoffrey Summerfield: Introduction (extract) + Chapter 1

14 August 2010

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

• A Personal Tribute to Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955): link added

13 August 2010

• External Links page updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

12 August 2010
11th anniversary of this web site
183rd anniversary of William Blake’s death

• Albert Einstein on the Limits of Scientific Description
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

11 August 2010

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) updated
• Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works updated

10 August 2010

• NEW: Second International Marxism, German Social Democracy, Austro-Marxism: Selected Secondary Bibliography
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

9 August 2010
65th anniversary of atomic bombing of Nagasaki

• NEW: Neo-Kantianism, Its History, Influence, and Relation to Socialism: Selected Secondary Bibliography
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

8 August 2010

• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

7 August 2010

• Historical Materialist Theory of Knowledge by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
• Ludwig Wittgenstein and Constructed Languages: Wittgenstein, Esperanto by T. Peter Park
• External Links page updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

6 August 2010
65th anniversary: atomic bombing of Hiroshima

• Nota Preliminar (1945) de Jorge Luis Borges, prefacio de / preface to Pragmatismo [Pragmatism] de William James
• Borges Ironizing Idealism: I Dream Too Much by Ralph Dumain
• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web: updated
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice: bibliography updated

4 August 2010

• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• External Links page updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

3 August 2010

• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated

2 August 2010

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

1 August 2010

• "Buboj" [Jitterbugs] by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, translated by R. Dumain: bibliographic note + image added
• External Links page updated

31 July 2010

• Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Study Materials on the Web

29 July 2010

• The Secret Malady of Esperanto Poetry (1973) by Dr. Julius Balbin
• On “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by R. Dumain: material added
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography updated
• "Albert Ayler", a poem by Ralph Dumain: link updated
• The Incoherence of the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills' Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action by Fredy Perlman: link updated
• Hegel on Daoism (Taoism): link updated
• Yevgeny Zamyatin on Revolution, Entropy, Dogma and Heresy: link updated
• "Cave" by Endre Toth, a philosophical tale: link updated
• A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth: link updated
• Review (Recenzo): Emba, "Maria kaj la Grupo" de R. Dumain: link updated
• "«Mi Ne Deziras Esti Juvelo»" de Georgi Miĥalkov: link updated

28 July 2010

• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

27 July 2010

• On “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by R. Dumain

26 July 2010
Esperanto's 123th birthday
(Unua Libro published 1887)

• Dekunu tezoj pri Fojerbaĥ (Proleta Kurso)

25 July 2010

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• On “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by Ralph Dumain: links added

24 July 2010

• Filmeto de D-ro L. L. Zamenhof! / Film of Dr. L. L. Zamenhof!
• Dr. L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), Seated (photo / foto)

23 July 2010

• Wittgenstein on Esperanto/ Wittgenstein pri Esperanto
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

22 July 2010

• Historical Surveys of Atheism, Freethought, Rationalism, Skepticism, and Materialism: Selected Works

21 July 2010
7th anniversary: death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated

9 July 2010

• Bulteno de Esperanto-Societo de Vaŝingtono, Nova Serio = Esperanto Society of Washington Newsletter, New Series. #1 - #6 (Novembro 1986 - Decembro 1987) sub redakcio de R. Dumain
  • Nova Serio, #1, Novembro 1986
  • Nova Serio, #2, Januaro 1987
  • Nova Serio, #3, Februaro-Marto 1987
  • Nova Serio, #4, Aprilo-Majo 1987
  • Nova Serio, #5, Junio-Septembro 1987
  • Nova Serio, #6, Oktobro-Decembro 1987

5 July 2010

• “Ungo de Aufhebo”
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Ideology Study Guide updated
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated: Stirner links added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• External Links page updated
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated: new link
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

4 July 2010

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

27 June 2010

• Marx on Kant (quotes)
• Proleta Kurso, vol. 5 (1932)
  • La Cerbo de Lenin (S. Kudrjavicki)
  • Dekunu tezoj pri Fojerbaĥ / Dialektika Metodo / Historia materialismo / Aforismoj pri la Scienco (K. Marks)
  • Nia marŝo (V. Mayakovskij) / La poeto laboristo (V. Mayakovskij) / Funebra vespero (L. Ivn) / 1905 (Moskvo) ( N. Hohlov) / Esperantisto, ekesto kaj malapero (R. Ŝvarc)

25 June 2010
Happy birthday to me!

20 June 2010

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

18 June 2010

• On Geoffrey Waite on Esoterism, Heidegger, and Cassirer by R. Dumain
• Proleta Kurso, vol. 5 (1932)
  • Enhavo (PDF)
  • Antaŭparolo
  • Resumo de la Marks’a Kapitalo de Roza Luksemburg

13 June 2010

• Proleta Kurso, vol. 5 (1932): Enhavo
• Raggedy Poet Society by R. Dumain

10 June 2010

• Universal Auxiliary Language Babm (Extracts) by Fuishiki Okamoto
• "Konsideroj pri Gandhi" de George Orwell, tradukis William Simcock

18 May 2010

• From Paul Klee’s “Creative Credo” (1920)
• Interviews on The Autodidact Project (Audio Files)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

17 May 2010

• John Dewey's Foreword to Paul Radin's Primitive Man as Philosopher

15 May 2010

• Passport to Magonia (Contents & Preface, 1969) by Jacques Vallee

14 May 2010

• "Circumscripture" by Piet Hein
• "Missing Link" by Piet Hein
• Diploma of R. Dumain for completion of Esperanto course, Buffalo Museum of Science, 1969
• Space Travel in 1930 (from The World Book Encyclopedia)

13 May 2010
In loving memory of Evelyn, now gone 5 years
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

• External Links page updated

19 April 2010

• Annotated Bibliography on Language and Thought

18 April 2010
Death of Albert Einstein, 1955

• President Jimmy Carter Greets the Esperanto League for North America, 22 July 1977
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography updated

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography updated

17 April 2010

• Letter on Sapir-Whorf discussions at LogFest ’89 and other topics by R. Dumain

15 April 2010

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography updated
• Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography updated
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (updated bibliography)

14 April 2010
Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto:
15 December 1859 - 14 April 1917

10 April 2010
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

• Leibniz & Ideology: Selected Bibliography: new link to Leibiz archive

8 April 2010

• “Herbert Marcuse's Criticism of ‘Linguistic Philosophy’” by Colin Lyas

7 April 2010

• Evelyn as a Teenage Girl: Beauty, Innocence, Presence

6 April 2010

• Volapük in the Black Press, 1888
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

3 April 2010

• Renford Bambrough on Distinctions & Connections in Philosophy
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

2 April 2010

• Karl Marx on Philosophy & Practicality
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

1 April 2010
Birthday of Samuel R. Delany (1942-)

30 March 2010

• Karl Marx on Religion: Sources & Quotations: new text added
• Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography updated
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

29 March 2010

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated
• Black Music & the American Surrealists: A Bibliography: links updated

28 March 2010

• Hegel on Ars Combinatoria & Characteristica Universalis

27 March 2010

• Descartes & Marxism: Selected Bibliography
• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated

25 March 2010

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated

23 March 2010

• "Freedom and Polydeterminism in Cultural Criticism" by Rudi Supek

21 March 2010

• Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium edited by Erich Fromm
• "Man and Philosophy" by Karel Kosík
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

20 March 2010

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

19 March 2010

• Fascism as Pseudo-Socialism by W. F. Haug

18 March 2010

• "Socialist Humanism?" by Herbert Marcuse
• "The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity: A Reconsideration" by Herbert Marcuse

16 March 2010

• Explicit & Tacit Positions of Science & Philosophy on Reason & Religion: Ralph Dumain Responds to a Questionnaire

12 March 2010

• Ordo de Diservo: Matenpreĝo: Por Uzo en la Preĝejo de Sankta Anno, Annapolis, la 30an de Julio, 1916
• Esperanto Banquet, July 27, 1916: Didanko * Menuo * Tostoj
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

11 March 2010

• Herbert Marcuse on Descartes, Kant, Hegel: Soul, Mind-Body Duality, & Affirmative Culture
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated

10 March 2010

• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated

8 March 2010

• Merab Mamardashvili: Selected Bibliography & Web Links

6 March 2010

• “Towards a Socio‑Historical Interpretation of the Scientific Revolution” by Paul Piccone

5 March 2010

• The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Descartes) by Herbert Marcuse
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

3 March 2010

• Zamenhofa Naskodomo en Bialystok de Ichiel Tynowicki
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

27 February 2010

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

25 February 2010

• 6th International Esperanto Congress, Washington DC: Day-by-Day Report / 6a Universala Kongreso: Raporto laŭ Tagordo

25 February 2010

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

24 February 2010

• Aesthetic Abstraction, Philosophical Foreplay (Descartes) by W. F. Haug

20 February 2010

• "A Graveyard Called Banality (Oklahoma)": poem from 1995
• Esperanto for Clayworkers

19 February 2010

• Curt J. Ducasse on Wisdom, Norms, Theory, & Pragmatism

18 February 2010

• "Structuralism and Dialectic" by Jean Piaget

15 February 2010
Birthday of Galileo Galilei
(February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642)

• Manifesto of Non-nationalism by Eugène Lanti: complete text
• El: Pensoj de K-do E. Lanti: "Sennaciismo" de E. Lanti = sekcio II de Manifesto de la Sennaciistoj: removed from this site

13 February 2010

• “On the Significance of The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” by R. Dumain

9 February 2010

• Heksa Ŝako (Hexagonal Chess)
  • Heksa Ŝako (PDF-file)
• Leibniz & Games (with illustrations & web links)
• Miscellaneous Articles & Essays on Games: Selected Bibliography updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

7 February 2010

• Leibniz & Ideology: Selected Bibliography
• ‘On the "Not Necessarily Atheist" Nature of Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophical Consciencism’ by Alexander Wooten
• “Genia Lingvisto Venkita de Etburĝeco: Fundamentaj Momentoj en la Lingva Teorio de Zamenhof” de Efim Feofanoviĉ Spiridoviĉ [1a parto]
  • “Genia Lingvisto Venkita de Etburĝeco: Fundamentaj Momentoj en la Lingva Teorio de Zamenhof”de Efim Feofanoviĉ Spiridoviĉ [1a & 2a partoj]

6 February 2010

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

5 February 2010

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

4 February 2010

• Jean Anouilh’s Becket: Choice Quotes

3 February 2010

• “Mole Mateniĝe” de R. Dumain
• Adorno on Paul Valéry & Cartesian Rationalism & Irrationalism in French Philosophy

2 February 2010

• "Pri Juda Gramatiko kaj Reformo en la Juda Lingvo" de Dr. X [L. L. Zamenhof], tradukis S. Guterman (Esperanto translation)
• "Vegn a yidisher gramatik un reform in der yidisher shprakh" de "Dr. X" [L. L. Zamenhof] (Yiddish original)

1 February 2010

• "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality" by Glenn C. Ellenbogen, Ph.D.

31 January 2010

• Nietzsche & the Analytic-Continental Divide: Denouement of Bourgeois Reason; Or, Analytical Philosophy's Being-for-Death by R. Dumain

30 January 2010

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

29 January 2010

• Richard Wright Study Guide updated
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography updated
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009 updated

27 January 2010

• Cornel West and Marxism: An Incomplete Review by R. Dumain

23 January 2010

• "Leibniz, Couturat kaj la Teorio de Ido" de Tazio Carlevaro

20 January 2010

• "Buboj" [Jitterbugs] by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, translated by R. Dumain

19 January 2010

• "Zamenhof and Esperanto" by Norman Berdichevsky

17 January 2010

• The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity by Enzo Traverso

15 January 2010
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)

• Stephen Jay Gould's Philosophy & History of Science & the Humanities by R. Dumain
• Marx on Capital, Machinery, Universality, Descartes: From Worship to Instrumentalization of Nature
• Lenin on Seventy Marxes

14 January 2010

• Meera Nanda Online updated
• El: Pensoj de K-do E. Lanti: "Sennaciismo" de E. Lanti
• Manifesto of Non-nationalism (Preamble +)
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

13 January 2010

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009 updated

12 January 2010

• “La Anuso de Dio” & Spiritismo por Stultuloj
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated (Black atheism)

10 January 2010

• Review of James Miller, History and Human Existence: From Marx to Merleau-Ponty by R. Dumain
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Calendar of Events updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Philosophical Events: Web Sites updated

9 January 2010

• Letero al la Amerika Esperanto Asocio, 1907 de L. Zamenhof
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

8 January 2010

• The Student Movement vs. . . . Mark Starr? (Kenneth Rexroth)
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009 updated

7 January 2010

• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated (Esther Schor)
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

6 January 2010

• Henry Pachter Meets Albert Einstein by Stephen Eric Bronner
• Review of David-Hillel Rubin, Marxism and Materialism: A Study in Marxist Theory of Knowledge by R. Dumain
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated (Black atheism)

3 January 2010

• “La Universala Frateco” de Joao Baptista Mello Souza
• “The Way," translation of L. L. Zamenhof's "La Vojo" by D. O. S. Lowell

1 January 2010

• Adorno on Wittgenstein & the Dialectical Essence of Philosophy
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography updated
• Wittgenstein and Dialectic: An Annotated Bibliography
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated (Black atheism)

27 December 2009

• "The Russian Jew and The American Negro" by John D. Swain (1906)

26 December 2009

• "Land of Liberty" Speech at 6th International Esperanto Congress, Washington DC, 15 Aug 1910, by L. L. Zamenhof
• 6th International Esperanto Congress, Washington DC: 2nd Day: Formal Opening (15 Aug 1910) / 6a Universala Kongreso: 2a Tago: Solena Malfermo

24 December 2009

• Fotografoj & Grafikaĵoj de 6a Internacia Kongreso de Esperanto, 1910 / Photographs & Graphic Images of the 6th International Congress of Esperanto
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009

23 December 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated

21 December 2009

• Provo de Gramatiko de Novjuda Lingvo de L. Zamenhof
• Doktoro kaj Lingvo Esperanto (enhavtabelo) de Adolf Holzhaus
• Esperanto, Vaŝingtono, & la Mondo / Esperanto, Washington, & The World: 1910 / 2010 updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Hermann Hesse, Esperanto, Klera Utopio, Universala Lingvo / Intellectual Utopia, Universal Language (bibliography): updated

19 December 2009

• Jidaj Poemoj de L. L. Zamenhof kun 3 Tradukoj
• La Kaŝita Vivo de Zamenhof [Enhavtabelo] de N. Z. Maimon
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated

17 December 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

16 December 2009

• Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009
• Google USA screen capture, 15 December 2009
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated

15 December 2009
150th birthday of L. L. Zamenhof,
Creator of Esperanto

14 December 2009

• William Pickens on Esperanto in The Voice of the Negro (1906): two articles
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated

13 December 2009
112th Birthday of Heinrich Heine (n. Chaim Harry Heine)
(13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

10 December 2009

• “Plenas via pelv’ da semo” [Thou hast a lap full of seed] de William Blake, trad. R. Dumain
• "Ligoj de Frateco" [Bonds of Brotherhood] de Paul Robeson, trad. R. Dumain
• L. L. Zamenhof & the Cultural, Religious, Professional & Political Context of 19th-20th Century Eastern European Jewish Intellectuals: Selected Bibliography updated
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated
• Hermann Hesse, Esperanto, Klera Utopio, Universala Lingvo / Intellectual Utopia, Universal Language (bibliography): updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

9 December 2009

• Pri Hanna Zamenhof-Zaruski (kun Genealogia Arbo) de Zofia Banet-Fornalowa

7 December 2009

• Petro: Kursa Lernolibro por Laboristoj (enhavo) de Norbert Barthelmess
  • Ĉapitroj 18 & 29
• Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide updated
• L. L. Zamenhof & the Cultural, Religious, Professional & Political Context of 19th-20th Century Eastern European Jewish Intellectuals: Selected Bibliography updated

5 December 2009

• NEW: Zamenhof & Zamenhofologio: Retgvidilo / Web Guide

29 November 2009

• L. L. Zamenhof & the Cultural, Religious, Professional & Political Context of 19th-20th Century Eastern European Jewish Intellectuals: Selected Bibliography
• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography updated

28 November 2009
252nd birthday of William Blake

25 November 2009

• Letero al Kofman (Odeso, 15 [ 28] majo 1901) de L. L. Zamenhof
• El Projektata Alvoko al Kongreso por Neŭtrale-Homa Religio de L. L. Zamenhof / Edmond Privat
• Zamenhof & la Hebrea Ligo (1914)

19 November 2009

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

17 November 2009

• Marxism & the Jewish Question: Selected Bibliography
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

12 November 2009

• Esperanto and George Orwell (preface)

10 November 2009

• Hermann Hesse, Esperanto, Klera Utopio, Universala Lingvo / Intellectual Utopia, Universal Language (bibliography)
• La Lasta Somero de Klinsor (elĉerpaĵo), de Hermann Hesse, trad. Wolfram Diestel
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated (sekcio pro filozofio)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated (James Loewen)

4 November 2009

• On the Language of the Future by M. I. Isayev

3 November 2009

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

1 November 2009

• El la Notlibro de Alfesto (25 aprilo 1939) de E. Lanti
• El la Notlibro de Alfesto (25 aŭgusto 1939) de E. Lanti
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

31 October 2009

• ‘"Esperanto and Its Originator: How a Jew Came to Create a "Universal Language"’ by Isidore Harris (10/31/09)
• William Pickens: Who’s Who in Colored America updated
• Esperanto, Vaŝingtono, & la Mondo / Esperanto, Washington, & The World: 1910 / 2010 updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated (Hubert Harrison references)

29 October 2009

• "Al la Forironto" de Emba (Imre Baranyai)
• Leteroj de E. Lanti, de Eugène Lanti, kun antaŭparolo de G. Varingjen

27 October 2009

• "La Sudo" de Jorge Luis Borges, trad. Enio Hugo Garrote (10/27/09)
• "Ikonoklasmo" de Karel Čapek

23 October 2009

• Marion Barry, Jr., Mayor, Washington, D.C.: Greetings to the Esperanto League of North America, 100th Anniversary, July 18-22, 1987
• Marion Barry, Jr.: Esperanto Day, July 19, 1987, By the Mayor of The District of Columbia: A Proclamation
• Liberpensuloj (Enciklopedio de Esperanto, 1933)
• Heinrich Heine en Esperanto: bibliography/web guide updated
• Richard Wright Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Bibliography & Catalog of Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Games Collection of Ralph Dumain:
  Supplement # 1 (1994-2008) updated

22 October 2009

• Kongresa Parolado ĉe la Malfermo de la 6a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto (Washington, 1910) de L. L. Zamenhof
• Paroladoj okaze de la 6a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto, Washington, 1910 de L. L. Zamenhof

20 October 2009

• Arthur Baker's Insurgency

18 October 2009

• William Pickens: Who’s Who in Colored America [biografieto + foto]
• Ernest Drezen pri la Interna Ideo de Esperantismo
• el «Nekonato: La Zamenhofa Homaranismo» de André Caubel (10/18/09)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

17 October 2009

• NEW FEATURE: Esperanto, Vaŝingtono, & la Mondo / Esperanto, Washington, & The World: 1910 / 2010
• "Ars Poetica #17: First Afro-American Esperantist" by Elizabeth Alexander
• Volapuk (Chicago Defender, 1911)
• [Negra kuiristino . . . dubinda ŝerco, 1909]
• Kongresa fotografo / Congress photo
• La Sesa Kongreso (grafikaĵo)

16 October 2009
Anniversary of raid on Harpers Ferry, 16 October 1859
led by John Brown (9 May 1800 - 2 December 1859)

• “Speech of Frank Morrison—Parolado de la Sekretario de Amerika Federacio de Laboristaj Ligoj”
• Arthur Baker—Humorist
• "Pri Esperantista Kolonio" de Chas Kuhariĉ (1909)
• "After the Editors" by H. W. Yemans (1910)

14 October 2009

• "La Teo" de Heinrich Heine, trad. A. Knegt

9 October 2009

• “Observoj de Biletkontrolisto. . .” de Valentin Melnikov
• “Ortodoksulo” poemo de Valentin Melnikov
• “Pri Libera Penso” (1910)
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• Images & Sounds page updated

8 October 2009

• William Auld en Barrie, Ontario, Kanado, somero 1975: fotografo fare de R. Dumain
• Images & Sounds page updated

7 October 2009
160th anniversary: death of Edgar Allan Poe
(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849)

• "Ĉielregno" de Vselovod Ivanov (L. Ivn, pseŭd.)

6 October 2009

• Ruĝa Geedziĝo de L. Ivn

5 October 2009

• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine: links updated

4 October 2009
52nd anniversary of Sputnik

3 October 2009

• "Gold Is The Shade Esperanto" by Margaret Danner
• Fragmento [El "Aŭguroj pri Senkulpeco"] de William Blake, trad. Farnsworth Wright
• "La Sekreto de Amo" [Never seek to tell thy love] de William Blake, trad. Clarence Bicknell: bibliographical emendation

1 October 2009

• "Misisipi" de Lejb Malaĥ (1894-1936) (Antaŭparolo & Biografio)

30 September 2009

• Niels Bohr & Louis Armstrong (photograph & comment)
• Latinamerika Memuaro (1987-1989): Eldonaj Informoj & Enhavo

29 September 2009

• "Kvar Planlingvoj Kreitaj de Virinoj" de Bernard Golden
• "Miguel A. Caycedo: Poeto de Negreco" (Miguel Ángel Caicedo Mena)

28 September 2009

• Kvar Poemoj de Langston Hughes, tradukis Carlos A. Castrillón
• Hajkoj kaj Tankaoj de Jorge Luis Borges, tradukis Carlos A. Castrillón

27 September 2009
In memoriam: Evelyn
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

26 September 2009

• "Goodbye Christ" by Langston Hughes
• "Adiaŭ Kristo" [Goodbye Christ] de Langston Hughes, trad. R. Dumain
• La Pastra Mensogo de Upton Sinclair, el angla lingvo kun aŭtora permeso tradukis Karl Fröding
• Kio Estas Infero? el ukrainia lingvo tradukis A. Levandovskij (9/26/09)

25 September 2009

• Poems from Esperanto: "Stubbornness" / "Obstino"; "Au Clair de la Lune" by Rejna de Jong, translated by William Auld
• "Ambaŭflanke": "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell, en Esperanto

24 September 2009

• "The Red Tram, or: Springtime in London" by L. N. M. Newell, translated by William Auld

23 September 2009
John Coltrane's 83rd birthday

• Poems from Esperanto: from "In Winter’s Shell" / el "En Konko de Vintro", by Georges E. Maura (pseudonym of Gaston Waringhien), translated by William Auld

22 September 2009

• La Eksperimento de Senreligia Edukado de E. Spiridoviĉ
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: new Neurath link

21 September 2009

• Interviews with William Auld: Broadcasts on Radio Scotland (1993) (9/21/09)
• From A Spoken State: An Epistle to Bill Auld by Stuart A. Paterson
• Cynthia Ozick on "Envy; Or, Yiddish In America" (The Writer Jokes in Hell, with Esperanto, Ro, & Volapük)
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

17 September 2009

• Adoptita Mame-Loŝn (Poemeto por la Zamenhof-tago) de Ralph Dumain

16 September 2009

• "Fruaj Socialismaj Konceptoj pri la Lingva Futuro de la Homaro" de Arpad Ràtkai

15 September 2009
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

• Oktobra Revolucio kaj la sekvoj de Moshe Lewin, Hansgeorg Conert, Robert Steigerwald; trad. Vilhelmo Lutermano (libro de MAS, 2009)

10 September 2009

• La Hungara Modelo en Interlingvistiko: Post la unua mondmilito de István Szerdahelyi
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

9 September 2009

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

4 September 2009

• "La Gimnazio" (fragmento) de Ŝalom Alejĥem, trad. L. L. Zamenhof
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: updated

3 September 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 September 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

1 September 2009

• Esperanto Literature: Notes and Impressions by K. R. C. Sturmer

30 August 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

29 August 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

28 August 2009

• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: links added

26 August 2009

• Gaston Waringhien pri Proverboj

25 August 2009
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

24 August 2009

• Ĉe Doktoro: Monologo de Ŝalom-Alejĥem

22 August 2009

• War with the Newts (Excerpt on the Language Problem) by Karel Čapek

21 August 2009

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

20 August 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

17 August 2009

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

15 August 2009

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

14 August 2009

• A Short History of the International Language Movement by Albert Léon Guérard
• Histoire de la Langue Universelle par Louis Couturat & Léopold Leau (1903)
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

13 August 2009

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

12 August 2009
10th anniversary of this web site

11 August 2009

• Karl Marx on Religion: Sources & Quotations updated
• Karl Marx on Comedy updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

7 August 2009

• Karl Marx on Comedy
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 August 2009

• NEW: Miscellaneous Articles & Essays on Games: Selected Bibliography
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: links added
• External Links page updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Noteworthy Books on Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: updated

5 August 2009

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): updated
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) updated

4 August 2009

• "Lukács' and Husserl's Critiques of Science" by Mihály Vajda

3 August 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) updated
• The Problem of the Ideal: Contents by David Dubrovsky: link to entire book added

1 August 2009

• "Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intellectuals" by Alvin W. Gouldner
• Irrationalism and Marxism by Étienne Balibar
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: new Popper & Marxism link

29 July 2009

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography: updated

28 July 2009

• Badiou and the Bankruptcy of Fashionable French Philosophy by R. Dumain
• Hegel & Me by R. Dumain: Note & links added
• Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide) updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

26 July 2009

• "The Little Blue Books in the War on Bigotry and Bunk" by Mark Scott

24 July 2009

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): updated

22 July 2009

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: new Popper & Marxism link

21 July 2009
6th anniversary: death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

• Emanuel & Marcet Haldeman-Julius: Guide to Web Resources & Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• External Links page updated

20 July 2009
40 anniversary of 1st manned moon landing

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain: links added

16 July 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

15 July 2009

• "The Little Blue Books as Popular Culture: E. Haldeman-Julius' Methodology" by Dale M. Herder

13 July 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

12 July 2009

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated
• Emanuel & Marcet Haldeman-Julius: Guide to Web Resources & Bibliography: updated
• The American Utopia by Eduard Batalov: offsite link to entire book

10 July 2009
Happy Birthday Aisha!

• Emanuel & Marcet Haldeman-Julius: Guide to Web Resources & Bibliography

8 July 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 July 2009

• “Eduard Batalov and the Philosophy of Revolt: The New Left through Soviet Eyes” by Ileana Rodríguez

5 July 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

4 July 2009

• "Stalinism: A Study of Internal Colonialism" by Alvin W. Gouldner
• Robert S. Cohen's Introduction to The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's 'Principia' by Boris Hessen
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Karlo Markso pri Scienco, Religio, Historia Metodologio

1 July 2009

• Materialism and the Dialectical Method by Maurice Cornforth

29 June 2009

• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide updated

27 June 2009

• Omaĝe al Prometeo de Karlo Markso

25 June 2009
Happy birthday to me!
1947: Start of UFO craze following sighting by Kenneth Arnold the day before

• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated

23 June 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• "Organized Labor and the Dewey Philosophy" by Mark Starr: link added

16 June 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

15 June 2009

• Imperialism and Irrationalism by Herbert Aptheker
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

12 June 2009
Conversion to HDTV

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

7 June 2009

• FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist" by Ralph Dumain: links added
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

6 June 2009

• Depreciation: Adorno on Theory, Reification, Paranoia, Dialectics
• Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Odo al la Okcidenta Vento [Ode to the West Wind] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. K. Kalocsay: corrections made

3 June 2009
Death of Koko Taylor (born 28 Sept. 1928),
Queen of the Blues

2 June 2009

• Freedom as They Know It by Theodor W. Adorno
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo ( Esperanto Games Web Guide): updated

30 May 2009

• Adorno on Workers vs. Intellectuals & the Meeting of Extremes
• "Socialist Individualism?" by Magnus E. Marsdal: Esperanto link added
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added

26 May 2009

• Karlo Markso pri Religio kiel Reflekso [Karl Marx on Religion as Reflex], trad. R. Dumain

22 May 2009

• Albert Schweitzer—An African Image by Ndabaningi Sithole
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography: updated

18 May 2009

• Trockij pri Religia & Sekulara Mistifiko [Trotsky on Religious & Secular Mystification], trad. R. Dumain
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

15 May 2009

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added

14 May 2009

• Karl Marx on Religion: Sources & Quotations
• Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis: Selected Quotations: quote added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

13 May 2009
4th anniversary of Evelyn's death

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography: updated

8 May 2009

• Marx on Science, Religion, Historical Method
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

7 May 2009

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added

5 May 2009
191st Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Happy birthday, Mom!

• W. E. B. Du Bois on Religion

4 May 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

29 April 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

26 April 2009

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated: link added in Interlinguistics section

13 April 2009

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated

11 April 2009

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

10 April 2009
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003) — Would have been 60th

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 April 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

4 April 2009
41st anniversary of assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: links added

2 April 2009

• Henri Lefebvre on Marx, Religion, Philosophy, Ideology & Politics: extract extended (pp. 66-75)

1 April 2009
Birthday of Samuel R. Delany (1942-)

In Memoriam: Melvin Russell
22 August 1924 - 1 April 2004

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater (interview): link added
• Henri Lefebvre on Marx, Religion, Philosophy, Ideology & Politics: extract extended (pp. 135-43)

31 March 2009

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated

29 March 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

25 March 2009

• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

24 March 2009

• Henri Lefebvre on Praxis

22 March 2009

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: link added

19 March 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

17 March 2009

• Henri Lefebvre on Marx, Religion, Philosophy, Ideology & Politics

16 March 2009

• The Quintessence of Ibsenism, Preface to 3rd edition by George Bernard Shaw
• Introduction to Humanism, Atheism: Principles and Practice, by Inga Kichanova, Boris Grigoryan, et al
• Christ: Myth or Reality? by I. Kryvelev: contents & excerpt
• Religion in the World Today by M. Mchedlov: Contents
• "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder: links added
• On Job's Dilemma: God's Injustice (from the play J.B. by Archibald Macleish): links added

9 March 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 March 2009

• "Man as the Object of Cognition in Arts Subjects" by L. I. Novikova
• Humanism, Atheism: Principles and Practice, by Inga Kichanova, Boris Grigoryan, et al
• Christ: Myth or Reality? by I. Kryvelev
• Religion in the World Today by M. Mchedlov

3 March 2009

• Denis Diderot by Tamara Dlugach (contents & excerpts)
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): updated
• Whitehead & Marxism: Selected Bibliography updated
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated

25 February 2009

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: link added

24 February 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

22 February 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

20 February 2009

• The Socialist Labor Party, 1876-1991: A Short History by Frank Girard & Ben Perry, excerpt on Esperanto

19 February 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

18 February 2009

• A Positivistically Bisected Rationalism by Jürgen Habermas

13 February 2009

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated

12 February 2009
200th birthday of Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln

11 February 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

7 February 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 February 2009

• Black Freethought discussion group created on "Atheist Nexus" networking site
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

4 February 2009

• The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology: Notes, Questions & Comments by R. Dumain
     I: Adorno's Introduction
• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo ( Esperanto Games Web Guide): updated

3 February 2009

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

2 February 2009

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

31 January 2009

• "Hegel" by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

30 January 2009

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

acit28 January 2009

• “In Defense of Engels” by Arthur Felberbaum
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• “Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law” by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury: link added

27 January 2009

• The Autodidact as Subversive
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

26 January 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

24 January 2009

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

22 January 2009

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• External Links page updated

21 January 2009

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress: section on black intellectual life updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: section on black atheism updated

16 January 2009

• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: APA links updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress: section on black intellectual life updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: section on black atheism updated

13 January 2009

• Robert Musil: Science, Positivism, Irrationalism, Modernism: Selected Bibliography
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

9 January 2009

• Hegel on Daoism (Taoism)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links

7 January 2009

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: section on black atheism updated
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated

6 January 2009

• Esperanto and Labour

5 January 2009

• Diderot, Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings, translated by Jean Stewart and Jonathan Kemp: Introduction
• Editorial changes made to Home Page and to Philosophical Quotations page.

31 December 2008

• Noteworthy Books on Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: updated

30 December 2008

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): links added
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated: links to Ishay Landa added
• Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed by R. Dumain: link to published essay added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated: Rancière link added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added

29 December 2008

• Diderot, Interpreter of Nature: Selected Writings, translated by Jean Stewart and Jonathan Kemp: front matter + bibliography
• Bibliography & Catalog of Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Games Collection of Ralph Dumain:
  Supplement # 1 (1994-2008) updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: links added
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: new Popper & Marxism reference
• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist: link added to this & other Starr pages

17 December 2008

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: links added

12 December 2008

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated: links added, mostly on Ramón Llull
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: bibliography expanded with links
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: links added

10 December 2008

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: bibliography expanded
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: links added
• "When God Was a Woman", quote by Bob Black: links & notes added

5 December 2008

• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by R. Dumain: external link added
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: link added
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added

4 December 2008

• The Afro-German Connection: Web Guide & Bibliography: links added
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated

2 December 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• American Philosophy Study Guide updated

1 December 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

27 November 2008

• The Afro-German Connection: Web Guide & Bibliography

26 November 2008

• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide: links added
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: link added

25 November 2008

• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites: link added

22 November 2008
45th anniversary of assassination of President Kennedy

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links updated

21 November 2008

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated: new references by Ishay Landa
• Richard Wright Study Guide updated

19 November 2008

• The Emanuel Fried Center: Manny Fried's Boilermakers & Martinis now available on DVD
• The Emanuel Fried Center: The Life & Work of Manny Fried: Links to Other Sites

6 November 2008

• NEW: Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Web Guide
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

5 November 2008
Congratulations to Barack Obama

• Esperanto — Ludoj — Retgvidilo ( Esperanto Games Web Guide)
• "Ludo" poemo de Kálmán Kalocsay

1 November 2008

• Noteworthy Books on Board Games & Related Games & Recreations
• Konstelacio: tabulludo: regularo / Constellation: board game: rules
• Monĉaso: tabulludo: regularo / Moneychase: board game: rules

30 October 2008

• Bibliography & Catalog of Board Games & Related Games & Recreations: Games Collection of Ralph Dumain:
  Supplement # 1 (1994-2008)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress: updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: link added

17 October 2008

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated

14 October 2008

• C. P. Snow on the 'Two Cultures': Literary Modernism, Irrationalism & Reactionary Politics

7-8 October 2008

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated: novaj ligoj sub "Ateismo" & "Filozofio"

6 October 2008

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated: novaj ligoj pri liberecana movado
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

3 October 2008

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: section on India updated

25 September 2008

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated

24 September 2008

• Sociology and Empirical Research by Theodor W. Adorno
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Ideology Study Guide updated

23 September 2008
John Coltrane's 82nd birthday

• The Scientific Marx: Falsifiability and Adhocness by Daniel Little
• Gulliver's Travels. Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Chapter V (extract) by Jonathan Swift
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated: link added
• Y-Haiku by R. Dumain
• Electoral Haiku by R. Dumain

22 September 2008

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: Popper & Marxism references

21 September 2008

• Introduction to The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology by Theodor W. Adorno

18 September 2008

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

17 September 2008

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated: Popper & the Frankfurt School references

16 September 2008

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

15 September 2008
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

11 September 2008

• Commentary on Matthew Piscioneri, Habermas: The Myth of Reason by Ralph Dumain
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

10 September 2008

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated: Stirner references & links added
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography updated: Adorno reference
• "On the Logic of the Social Sciences" by Theodor W. Adorno

1 September 2008

• The Positivist Dispute in German Sociology: Title pages, contents, index of sources

19 August 2008

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated, under heading "Otto Neurath"
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

15 August 2008

• Whitehead & Marxism: Selected Bibliography updated

11 August 2008

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress: updated

6 August 2008

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated

2 August 2008

• Cinika Racio Difinita de Peter Sloterdijk (Esperanto translation of quote)
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

30 July 2008

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

28 July 2008

• "Religion and the New African American Intellectuals" by Norm R. Allen, Jr.
• External Links page updated
• Esperanto Study Guide: ligo aldonita

23 July 2008

• Pri Proponita Konvertiĝo al Kristanismo: El la Aŭtobiografio de Salomon Maimon (tradukis el la angla traduko R. Dumain)

22 July 2008

• "Epilogue on Berkeley" by Roy Wood Sellars
• Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: Philosophy's 'Starting Point' by David H. DeGrood

21 July 2008
5th anniversary: death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

20 July 2008

• “The Thunderbolt, Interpenetration and Heraclitus” by David H. DeGrood

13 July 2008

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

12 July 2008

• Marxism and the Origins of British Socialism: The Struggle for a New Consciousness. Contents, Introduction, Conclusion by Stanley Pierson

11 July 2008

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Heinrich Heine: Selected Bibliography updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

10 July 2008

• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography: updated
• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography: updated

6 July 2008

• The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology by Alvin Gouldner
  • Chapter 2, Ideological Discourse as Rationality and False Consciousness: sections 0 - 5.3

1 July 2008

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

27 June 2008

• NEW: Spinoza & Marxism: Selected Bibliography (with Basic Spinoza Web Guide)
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added
• Adolph L. Reed, Jr. on Organicism, Authoritarianism, Clericalism, & Black Politics: link added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

22 June 2008
Death of George Carlin

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

16 June 2008

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): link added

14 June 2008

• The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology by Alvin Gouldner
  • Chapter 1, The Splitting

13 June 2008

• A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 by Carlton J. H. Hayes
  • Chapter 3 (The Rapid Mechanizing of Work and Thought), sections 6-9: Mechanistic Natural Science, Deterministic Biological Science, Physiological Psychology, Positivism and the Social Sciences

12 June 2008

• A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 by Carlton J. H. Hayes
  • Table of Contents, Maps, Illustrations. Bibliographical Essay (Jan. 1963) [fragment]
  • Chapter 9: The Climax of the Enlightenment

11 June 2008

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

10 June 2008

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography updated
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography: link added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

9 June 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

7 June 2008

• Ideology Study Guide updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: link added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

3 June 2008

• The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology by Alvin Gouldner
  • Front matter: dedication, quotes, contents, preface
  • Chapter 2, Ideological Discourse as Rationality and False Consciousness: sections 5.4 - 7
    [Basil Bernstein, Elaborated & Restricted Linguistic Codes] + Bibliographical Note
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: links added

1 June 2008

• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain: link added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

31 May 2008

• Romanticism and Classicism: Deep Structures in Social Science by Alvin W. Gouldner

29 May 2008
In Memoriam: Harvey Korman (15 Feb. 1927 - 29 May 2008)

28 May 2008

• Richard Wright Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• An Evolutionary Interpretation of the English Sonnet by Isadore Nabi: links added

26 May 2008

• “On the Tendencies of Motion” by Isadore Nabi
• Philosophical Apposition: Two Poems by Saul Birnbaum
• Nonstandard Analysis as Paradigm? Martin Davis interviewed by Lester Talkington
• “On the Origin of Language and Consciousness” by Jacinthe Baribeau
• The Attack on Margaret Mead and the Dialectics of Anthropology by Gordon Welty

25 May 2008

• Activity Theory: A Marxist Approach to Psychology by Carl Shames

24 May 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

21 May 2008

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman: external link to entire book added
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

17 May 2008

• The Emanuel Fried Center: external link added

16 May 2008

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

14 May 2008

• "Hegel's Philosophy as Basis for the Dewey Classification Schedule" by Eugene E. Graziano: references/links added
• Esperanto Study Guide: ligoj sub rubriko ateismo aldonitaj

13 May 2008
3rd anniversary of Evelyn's death

9 May 2008

• Esperanto Study Guide: ligo sub rubriko ateismo aldonita

5 May 2008
190th Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Happy birthday, Mom!

30 April 2008

• William Blake 250-jara: Kulturpolitiko kaj la Monda Disvastigo de Beletro (R. Dumain): notoj aldonitaj
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: link added

25 April 2008

• Richard Wright Study Guide: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

23 April 2008

• "Dialectical Naturalism: An Objective Ethics?" by Takis Fotopoulos: link to radio interview added

21 April 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

20 April 2008

• "Dialectical Naturalism: An Objective Ethics?" by Takis Fotopoulos
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

19 April 2008
3nd anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

14 April 2008
Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto: 15 December 1859 - 14 April 1917

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

13 April 2008

• Richard Wright Study Guide: updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated: ligoj pri ateismo aldonitaj

12 April 2008

• La Universo - kelkaj faktoj por helpi vin loĝi tie de Douglas Adams, tradukis Matt McLauchlin
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• External Links page updated
• Meera Nanda Online updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: Habermas link added

10 April 2008
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

9 April 2008
110th Birthday of Paul Robeson (9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976)

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

7 April 2008

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 April 2008

• The Popes Combat Modernity in the Bourgeois Century
• Wisdom and Abstract Thought: links added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

4 April 2008
40 anniversary of assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

31 March 2008
Birthday of René Descartes (Renatus Cartesius: 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650)

• Ideology (Frankfurt Institute for Social Research)
• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion: Postscript by R. Dumain

30 March 2008

• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion by R. Dumain
• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Annotated Bibliography by R. Dumain
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated: references on Ramon Llull added
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• "The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects)" by A. Arsenyev: Links to book added
• "Humanism and Science" by E. V. Ilyenkov: Links to book added

16 March 2008

• The Privilege of Experience by Theodor W. Adorno

15 March 2008

• "The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects)" by A. Arsenyev

14 March 2008
Albert Einstein's birthday (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)

8 March 2008

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

7 March 2008

• "Zu Spinozas Ethik" (On Spinoza's Ethics) — poem by Albert Einstein
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link

6 March 2008

• "Humanism and Science" by E. V. Ilyenkov

5 March 2008

• One-Dimensional Man: A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse

2 March 2008

• On Bentham and Coleridge (Excerpts) by John Stuart Mill
• John Stuart Mill & the Dualities: Bentham & Coleridge — Commentary by Ralph Dumain
• One-Dimensional Man: From Operationalism to Zen by Herbert Marcuse
• One-Dimensional Man: Classical Philosophy, the Division of Labor, Abstraction & Practice by Herbert Marcuse
• Black Folk and the Struggle in ‘Philosophy’ by Lucius T. Outlaw

1 March 2008

• The Village Atheist (Excerpts) by E. Haldeman-Julius

27 February 2008
Ralph Nader's (1934- ) birthday

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography: updated

21 February 2008
6th anniversary of this web site at current domain
Birthday of Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003)

• Adorno on Metaphysical Experience, Mysticism & Tradition
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated: nova ligo pri Hispana Civila Milito

18 February 2008

• Adorno and the Frankfurt School by Jack Lindsay

17 February 2008

• Adorno's Negative Dialectic by Howard Williams

16 February 2008

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

15 February 2008
Birthday of Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642)

12 February 2008
Darwin Day: Charles Darwin's Birthday

• Esperanto Study Guide: sekcio pri Ateismo updated

8 February 2008

• Concerning Resentment by Max Horkheimer
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: page title expanded

6 February 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress
• Humanism—100 Years of Freethought by David Tribe
• A Different Kind of Criticism [of Religion: Excerpt] by Max Horkheimer
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

31 January 2008

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

30 January 2008

• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography: updated

29 January 2008

• “Logic, Dialectics, Politics: Some Recent Controversies” by Hayward R. Alker, Jr.

28 January 2008

• “What Is Dialectical Logic?” by Franz Loeser
• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography: updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• William Blake Study Guide: link to The William Blake Klezmatrix added

18 January 2008

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1): links added & new reference
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography: updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

17 January 2008

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

14 January 2008

• “The Main Principles of David Hume's Epistemology as a Source of Contemporary Positivism” by Elena Panova
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link

11 January 2008

• David-Hillel Ruben on Materialism & Praxis

10 January 2008

• Literature and Dialectical Materialism by John Strachey
• Esperanto Study Guide: sekcio pri Ateismo: Dokumentoj de IHEU: updated

9 January 2008

• Marxism and Modern Idealism by John Lewis

8 January 2008

• Man in the “Industrial Society”: Is Herbert Marcuse’s “Critical Theory of Society” Critical? by Yuri Zamoshkin & Ninel Motroshilova
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography: updated
• La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen de Mark Starr: novaj eksteraj retligoj aldonitaj / new external links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

7 January 2008

• On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors': YouTube link added
• "Kultura Revolucio en Sovetunio: Lingvaj Reformoj kaj Esperanto, 1917-1937" de Michael Smith, trad. R. Dumain: bibliografia aldono / bibliographic reference added

31 December 2007

• Fresko-Sonetoj al Christian S. de Heinrich Heine, trad. K. Kalocsay

30 December 2007

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

28 December 2007
Birthday of Martin Milner (1931), co-star of TV series Route 66

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

23 December 2007

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

19 December 2007

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

16 December 2007

• Heinrich Heine: La Hejmreveno / The Homecoming (1)
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

15 December 2007
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

13 December 2007
110th Birthday of Heinrich Heine (n. Chaim Harry Heine)
(13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

12 December 2007

• Some Thoughts of Paul Valéry on Philosophy

6 December 2007

• Salomon Maimon’s Autobiography: On a Proposed Conversion to Christianity
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

5 December 2007

• Essay on the Devil and Devils by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

4 December 2007

• “Necessity! Thou Mother of the World!” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “I Will Beget a Son” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Bedřich Smetana de Jiří Kořínek

3 December 2007

• La Stoikismo de Agostinho da Silva

2 December 2007

• La Vespero

28 November 2007
William Blake's 250th birthday!

• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): entry added
• William Blake 250-jara: Kulturpolitiko kaj la Monda Disvastigo de Beletro de R. Dumain

26 November 2007

• "Duopa Mondo Mia" de Ezra Clark Stillman
• "Kiom Longe Atendi" de Brian Price-Heywood

24 November 2007

• Misio de la Filozofo de Paul Nizan

20 November 2007

• "Heine kaj la Amo" de Gaston Waringhien

18 November 2007

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated

16 November 2007

• "How Small We Are How Little We Know" by Earl Wilson, Jr.
• "Why Marx or Nietzsche?" by András Gedö
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link
• External Links page updated: National Yiddish Book Center added

10 November 2007

• Czesław Jastrzębiec Kozłowski: Verkoj, Recenzoj, Informoj
• Revivigo de Czeslaw Kozlowski de Kálmán Kalocsay

9 November 2007

• Proletaro kaj Religio (Fragmento) de N. Lenin, Esperantigis G. Dem

8 November 2007

• Poeto de l’Kosma Melankolio (Skizo pri Cz. Kozlowski) de E. Miĥalski

5 November 2007

• “Mi Estas” (Dediĉita al E. Miĥalski) de E. Izgur (11/5/07)

4 November 2007

• Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought
• Adorno on Metaphysics, Philosophical Questions, History, Sociology, & Culture expanded

3 November 2007

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated
• William Blake Study Guide: links added

2 November 2007

• Review of Emanuel Fried's Boilermakers & Martinis by Anthony Chase
• Democratic Leaders Are at a Fork in the Road by Emanuel Fried

1 November 2007

• Evoluo de Koncepto de Dio (El ABC de Sendieco) de A. Figurin (trad. G.P.)
• Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Gallery (NEW!)
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography: updated

31 October 2007

• Kontraŭ Dio! Ateista Krestomatieto
  • Kovrilo + Enhavo
  • Dia Komedio (Antero Do Quental, el la portugala trad. Abilio Ribeiro)
  • Mia Kredo (N. Minskij, elrusigis N. Vladimiroviĉ)

30 October 2007

• William Auld: Letero al R. Dumain, 1987.01.26 (bildo de la originala)
• William Auld: Letero al R. Dumain, 1987.01.26 (transskribo)

27 October 2007

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography: updated

26 October 2007

• R. Dumain contact address changed on site
• "The Marxist-Leninist Theory of Humor" by Tom McLaughlin

25 October 2007

• "The Empiricist Account of Scientific Knowledge—A Polemical Evaluation" by Richard Arthur
• “Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations)” by Hilary Rose & Stephen Rose
• Working Papers on Marxism and Science: front matter

24 October 2007

• William Blake’s Manuscript Lyrics: Discussion in Commemoration of Blake’s 250th Birthday (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827), November 2007 compiled by R. Dumain

21 October 2007

• Note on the Poznan School by R. Dumain
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link to YouTube
• Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science & Synthese: Selected Volumes (Eastern Europe & Marxism): revised & updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): updated
• Million Man March satirical flyer (Oct. 1995) by R. Dumain

20 October 2007

• "Marx's Method in Social Science, and Its Relationship to Classical and Modern Physics and Mathematics" by J. Witt-Hansen

18 October 2007

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated: Poznan School links added
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

15 October 2007

• Wilhelm Ostwald's ‘The Bridge’ by Niles R. Holt
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated

13 October 2007

• William Blake’s 250^th Birthday: Selected Web Links
• William Blake Study Guide: links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (updated)

10 October 2007

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

6 October 2007

• William Blake & the Jews: The Bibliography (sans annotations)
• William Blake & the Jews: An Annotated Bibliography
• Notes for Discussion of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (27 April 2005)
• William Blake Study Guide: links added
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated

4 October 2007
50th Anniversary of Sputnik, start of Space Age

29 September 2007

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (updated)

27 September 2007
In memoriam: Evelyn's 60th birthday
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

26 September 2007
Birthday of Gary Bartz (1940), jazz saxophonist

25 September 2007
50th anniversary of integration of Little Rock Central High School

24 September 2007

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

23 September 2007
John Coltrane's 81st birthday

2 September 2007

• Heinrich Heine on German Romantic Orientalism: 2nd quote added

29 August 2007
40th anniversary: The Fugitive final episode
“The day the running stopped”

25 August 2007
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

20 August 2007

• "Blake and Ideology" by Edward Larrissy

17 August 2007

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated

16 August 2007

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: updated

14 August 2007

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: updated

12 August 2007
8th anniversary of The Autodidact Project

7 August 2007
Birthday of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
(7 August 1936 - 5 December 1977)

• Phenomenology and Existence: Toward a Philosophy Within Nature by Marvin Farber
  •  Contents & Foreword
  •  Marvin Farber on Maurice Merleau‑Ponty
• The Philosophy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk: link added

5 August 2007

• Oh, William Blake! by Edgar Lee Masters (under pseudonym “Webster Ford”)
• William Blake Study Guide: links added

25 July 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: Habermas link added

24 July 2007

• Scepticism & Fideism by Richard H. Popkin

16 July 2007

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)

8 July 2007

• Descartes to Mersenne, 20 November 1629
• A Fragment on Miracles (1813-1815) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• [A Refutation of the Christian Religion] (1814?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Fragment of A Refutation of Deism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

4 July 2007

• “There Is No God” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3 July 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 July 2007

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: link(s) added

26 June 2007

• On Polytheism (1819?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

25 June 2007
Happy birthday to me!

23 June 2007

• The American Utopia by Eduard Batalov
  • Contents
  • Chapter II.5:  The Technocratic Utopia
  • Chapter III.2: The Technocratic Utopia

23 June 2007

• The American Utopia, Chapter 4, "From Utopia to Antiutopia", by Eduard Batalov
• La Releviĝo de Tomaso Paine de R. W. Morrell

22 June 2007

• Kanto por la angloj [Song to the Men of England] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld
• Al— [To—, 1821] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro: new section / nova sekcio: Auld Aviadas
• "Al Josephine Baker" de Poul Thorsen: graphic added

9 June 2007

• Moralism & Morality (Excerpt) by Anthony Skillen

5 June 2007

• James Baldwin Revisited (2): Go Tell It on the Mountain by Ralph Dumain

31 May 2007

• Revisiting Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by R. Dumain

22 May 2007

• James Baldwin Revisited (1): Prolegomena
• Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: revised

19 May 2007

• Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality

15 May 2007

• Review of Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo (1977) by R. Dumain

8 May 2007

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (revised)

6 May 2007

• A World in a Grain of Sand [Mondo en Sablero] de Roberto Passos Nogueira

5 May 2007
189th Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Happy birthday, Mom!

• "Al Josephine Baker" de Poul Thorsen
• "Al la Juda Foririnto" de Lodewijk Cornelius Deij
• Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (5/5/07)
• “The Common Well” (To Charles Chaplin) by Piet Hein: links added

3 May 2007

• ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R. Dumain: retligoj aldonitaj
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 May 2007

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)

29 April 2007

• La Biblioteko de Babelo, de Jorge Luis Borges, tradukis Gulio Cappa

22 April 2007

• La Klera Despoto de John I. Francis
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

19 April 2007
2nd anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

• "La Birdoj" [The Birds] de William Blake, tradukis R. Dumain
• Bibliography on Alternatives to Capitalism / American Ennui, compiled by Daniel S. Mesnik

18 April 2007
Death of Albert Einstein, 1955

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)
• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist: links added to this & other Starr pages

9 April 2007
Birthday of Paul Robeson (9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976)

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

5 April 2007

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism updated

4 April 2007
39th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Esperanto: Photo Archives: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

31 March 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

29 March 2007

• NEW: mia Esperanto-blogo ĉe Blogger / my Esperanto Blog at Blogger: Ĝirafo
• "Letero el ekster la (E-) kulturo" de Radosław Nowakowski

24 March 2007

• Lukács on Wittgenstein
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

16 March 2007

• Reformed Materialism and Intrinsic Endurance by Roy Wood Sellars
• Emergence Blog officially at new location in WordPress blog format

14 March 2007

• Criticism of “Contemporary Society” and “Negative Dialectics” (Excerpts on Adorno) by E. Batalov
• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "On Trends in the Status of Dialectical Logic: A Brief Study of Lefebvre, Ilyenkov and Wald" by Claude M. J. Braun

13 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "Karl Marx On Science and Nature" [excerpts, with discussion] by Robert S. Cohen [et al]
  • On Althusser, Ideology and Marxist Theory of Knowledge by David W. Schwartzman & Mohsin Siddique, Response by Lester Talkington
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

12 March 2007

• Marx, Peano and Differentials by Hubert Kennedy (from Science and Nature)

10 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • Karl Popper and Creationism
  • Ludwik Fleck: Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Dieter Wittich
  • Bibliographic Briefs for Natural Scientists, issue #4
  • Letters to the Editor, issue #5

9 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "Christopher Caudwell and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" by Shaun Lovejoy
  • Review of Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature by Ethel Tobach
  • Science and Marxism in England, 1930-1945 by Robert E. Filner

8 March 2007
International Women's Day

6 March 2007

• "Esperanto und Atheismus" de Detlev Blanke

18 February 2007

• Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism”
• Engels (& Borges) on Carlyle

13 February 2007

• Ĉu Oni Povas Vivi Sen Religio? de André Lorulot

12 February 2007
Darwin Day: Charles Darwin's Birthday

11 February 2007
Happy birthday, Harry!

• "La Socia Enhavo de l'Ĵazmuziko" de Roland Levreaud

10 February 2007

• Wittgenstein and Dialectic: An Annotated Bibliography
• Wittgenstein and Hegel: An Annotated Bibliography
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

8 February 2007

• Graham Priest, Paraconsistent Logic, and Philosophy, Or, Logic and Reality by R. Dumain

• Graham Priest's Inclosure Schema

• Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit on Contradiction by R. Dumain
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated

5 February 2007

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology: An Annotated Bibliography
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

3 February 2007

• "Ideoj" de Heinrich Heine, tradukis Leopold Einstein

2 February 2007

• La Dia Pesto de Johann Most

31 January 2007

• "Spinoza, La Filozofo de la Homa Feliĉo" de Simon Aarse

29 January 2007

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

25 January 2007

• Principles of Emergent Realism: Philosophical Essays by Roy Wood Sellars
  • Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • Why Naturalism and Not Materialism  
  • Is Naturalism Enough?

24 January 2007

• "Wittgensteinian Foundations of Non-Fregean Logic" by Boguslaw Wolniewicz
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)

23 January 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

22 January 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated: Eŭgeno Miĥalski added

21 January 2007
110th birthday of Eŭgeno Miĥalski (1897.01.21 - 1937.10.15)
Russian Esperanto poet

11 January 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

10 January 2007

• NEW FORMAT & LOCATION: “Studies in a Dying Culture” (using Blogger, hopefully temporarily)
  • old location (for old posts): “Studies in a Dying Culture”
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

25 December 2006
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Death of James Brown (b. 3 May 1933)

• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

23 December 2006

• Adorno on Brecht

19 December 2006

• Swami Agehananda Bharati on Hindu Fascism & Western Infatuation

13 December 2006
Birthday of Heinrich Heine (n. Chaim Harry Heine)
(13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

• Duke Ellington Komunikas ‘Preter Kategorio’
  (Duke Ellington Communicates Beyond Category, Esperanto translation by R. Dumain)
• Walter Benjamin on Bertolt Brecht's Lao Tzu

12 December 2006

• Spinoza en Esperantujo (Spinoza in Esperanto-land): Bibliography & Web Guide
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

8 December 2006
John Lennon murdered on this date, in 1980

• Whitehead & Marxism: Selected Bibliography

7 December 2006
Noam Chomsky's 78th Birthday

6 December 2006

• "Putting Descartes Before the Horse" by Dave Berg
• Meera Nanda Online updated

4 December 2006

• Heinrich Heine en Esperanto (NEW: bibliography & web guide)
• Heinrich Heine: “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam” / “En nord’ unu pino en solo” (en Esperanto)
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: updated

2 December 2006

• “La Vizaĝo” [The Face] de Emmanuel Levinas
• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): entry added
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: links added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: revised
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

29 November 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

27 November 2006

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

26 November 2006

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

19 November 2006

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

18 November 2006

• Phenomenology and Natural Existence: Essays in Honor of Marvin Farber, edited by Dale Riepe
  • Contents & Acknowledgements
  • Introduction by Dale Riepe

14 November 2006

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

13 November 2006
In memoriam: Evelyn
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)
gone 1 1/2 years

• Brecht on Theatre: Entertainment, Instruction, Science, Dialectics

11 November 2006

• "Philosophy's Historic Fate: Museum Pieces, Messages, and Classics" by Albert William Levi
• "Komunika Etiko kaj Esperantismo" de Helmut Welger

10 November 2006

• Descartes' Dualism (Extract) by Albert William Levi

8 November 2006

• Odo al la Okcidenta Vento [Ode to the West Wind] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. K. Kalocsay

7 November 2006

• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide)
• "Amikon mian mi koleris" [A Poison Tree] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Londono" [London] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Jen la Respondo" [The Question Answer'd] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Ne Pridiru al l’Amata" [Never pain to tell my love] de William Blake, trad. A.D. Foote
• "La Ĝardeno de l’Amo" [The Garden of Love] de William Blake, trad. A.D. Foote

6 November 2006
Birthday of William Auld (1924-2006), preeminent Esperanto poet

• "La Sekreto de Amo" [Never seek to tell thy love] de William Blake, trad. Clarence Bicknell
• El "Aŭguroj pri Senkulpeco" [from “Auguries of Innocence”] de William Blake, tradukoj de William Auld, Tom Fraser, Aldo de’Giorgi, Meva Maron
• Pri Ne-Verkita Poemo (kun citaĵoj el William Blake -blejk-) de Kris Long
• "La Malsana Rozo" [The Sick Rose] de William Blake, tradukoj de A. D. Foote, Meva Maron, Jens S. Larsen

4 November 2006

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

23 October 2006
50th Anniversary of Hungarian Revolution
10th anniversary of Hegel-by-HyperText

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

16 October 2006

• Martin Luther King, Jr. & G.W.F. Hegel
• “Martin Luther King’s Debt to Hegel” by John Ansbro
• Dialectic is Cool

14 October 2006

• Discipline 27 by Sun Ra
• Heinrich Heine: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update

9 October 2006

• NEW BIBLIOGRAPHY: Meera Nanda Online
• Outsider Art & Identity Politics: A Dialogue on the Ideology of Politically Correct Art (Ralph & Sally)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

8 October 2006

• Consciousness and Society: A Review by R. Dumain
• Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed by R. Dumain

5 October 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised & updated)

4 October 2006
49th anniversary of inauguration of Space Age with launch of Sputnik

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

2 October 2006

• "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder: links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

29 September 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

27 September 2006
In memoriam: Evelyn
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

23 September 2006
Rosh Hashanah
John Coltrane's 80th birthday

19 September 2006

• Adorno on Philosophy, Sociology & History

17 September 2006

• Esperanto Study Guide revised

14 September 2006

• “On the General Characteristic” by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Leibniz on the Universal Characteristic

12 September 2006

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: links added

11 September 2006
Morto de William Auld: 6 nov 1924 - 11 sept 2006
Death of William Auld, preeminent Esperanto poet

7 September 2006
Happy 81st Birthday, Sallie!

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

6 September 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 13: The Philosophic Meaning of the Copernican Revolution

2 September 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: links added

31 August 2006

• "Baruch Spinoza" poem by Jorge Luis Borges

25 August 2006
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)
Would have turned 45 today

• Spinoza's Attributes by Constantin Brunner

20 August 2006

• "The New Materialism" by Roy Wood Sellars

15 August 2006

• On “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by Ralph Dumain

14 August 2006

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): new links

13 August 2006

• Negation: Bakunin and Bauer by Paul McLaughlin

12 August 2006

• Bakunin and Feuerbach: On Religion, Philosophy, & Naturalism by Paul McLaughlin

10 August 2006

• Natural Order and the 'Divine Legislator' (according to Bakunin) by Paul McLaughlin

9 August 2006
21st anniversary—Evelyn

• "The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes, with a personal note

8 August 2006
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 7 Aug 1936 - 5 Dec 1977
Happy 70th, Music Lovers!

• Spinoza’s World-View by A. M. Deborin
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

6 August 2006

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated

3 August 2006

• The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to Nietzsche: A Sketch by R. Dumain

1 August 2006

• Screed on the Politics of Utopianism by R. Dumain

30 July 2006

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography: NEW

26 July 2006

• “Obskuraj Radikoj de la ‘Nova Epoko’” de Roland Schnell
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 July 2006
3rd anniversary: death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)
Still in pain

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 July 2006

• "La Serpento en la Dezerto" de Edgar Lee Masters, trad. Zane Gilstrap
• Poemoj de William Auld: “Al Pastro” & “Evoluo” (7/19/2006)
• Pri ATEO en la Monda Ateista Movado de Ralph Dumain 

18 July 2006

• "The Congress" by Jorge Luis Borges
• ATEO Renkontas IHEU de Ralph Dumain 

17 July 2006

• Redesign of this page: button row added
• The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges by L. A. Murrilo
  • Contents & Introduction
  • Jorge Luis Borges—The Ways of Irony in the Labyrinth of Consciousness, 1: Introductory

16 July 2006

• New buttons on Home and Site Map pages: "My Blogs" & "Special Sections"
• "Strong Men" by Sterling A. Brown
• "Spinoza" poem by Jorge Luis Borges

15 July 2006

• The Tramp Speaks! The Most Important Moment in the History of Film: The Final Speech of The Great Dictator (1940) by Charles Chaplin

12 July 2006

• William Blake Works for the Future

11 July 2006

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update

10 July 2006
Happy 20th birthday, Aisha!

• NEW BLOG: “Studies in a Dying Culture”
• "Philosophical Portrait of a Dying Civilization" (1988) by R. Dumain
  • Abstract
  • Full paper

9 July 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)
• Christopher Caudwell: Selected Bibliography (links added)

4 July 2006

• Hegel on the Owl of Minerva
• “Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law” by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury

1 July 2006

• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist: links added
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine: links updated

24 June 2006

• Heinrich Heine on Spinoza and Our Lenses
• Heinrich Heine on German Romantic Orientalism

21 June 2006

• "Pri Falsa Konscio kaj Mistifiko" de Ladislav Podmele
• “Negreto” (translated excerpt from Black Boy) de Richard Wright

19 June 2006

• Dialectics Bout: Richard Norman vs. Sean Sayers, review by R. Dumain

18 June 2006

• Heinrich Heine on Leibniz & Spinoza

16 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 13: Dialectical Materialism
• Chapter 18: Pragmatism
• section 7. An “Idealism of Action"—Philosophy of American Imperialism

14 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 19: Features of a Reactionary Philosophy

13 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 16: Positivism in Sociology and Politics; section: "Positivism and Sociology"

12 June 2006

• Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work by Maurice Cornforth
• Maurice Cornforth on Partisanship and Objectivity by Ralph Dumain
• Science versus Idealism (Contents, Foreword, Introduction) by Maurice Cornforth

10 June 2006

• What Bird Am I?, sound file added: R. Dumain reading his poem, excerpt from interview with Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006
• On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors', sound files added: R. Dumain introducing & reading his poem, excerpts from interview with Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006

9 June 2006

• Por Hilton Ruiz, Portorikana Pianisto, poemo & memoro de R. Dumain

7 June 2006

• To breake a little wind, poem by Sir Thomas More

28 May 2006

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Chapter I: Birth of Vedanta and its Earlier Historic Role [extract]

27 May 2006

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Preface
  • Chapter II: British Imperialism at Work: Forces behind the Vedantic Movement

24 May 2006
Birthday of Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, 24 May 1941)
Happy 65th, my friend Bob!

• Esperanto Kiel Anti-Lingvo de Baldur Ragnarsson

• "La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen" de Mark Starr

21 May 2006

• A Taxonomy of Surreal Taxonomists by Prentiss Riddle

20 May 2006

• Review of Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life by Verloren van Themaat
• Filozofo, poemo de L. N. Newell

17 May 2006

• Alice in Washington, theater review by Ralph Dumain

13 May 2006
1st anniversary of Evelyn's death

10 May 2006

• "The Historical Character of the Concept of Nature" by András Gedö

4 May 2006
1st anniversary: Learned that Evelyn would die

2 May 2006
1st anniversary: Evelyn's momentary, last moments of conscious awareness

1 May 2006
May Day: The International Workers' Holiday

• Arta partikulareco kaj Esperanto [pri teorio de Georg Lukàcs] de R. P. Nogueira

• Eastern & Western Philosophy: Unpublished Letter to the Editor [rejoinder by R. Dumain to 'The Great Divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad]

29 April 2006

• Antilanguage & Esperanto

25 April 2006

• NEW! Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement
  Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation.
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Esperanto Study Guide revised

24 April 2006
1st anniversary: Evelyn's final day of consciousness

21 April 2006

• Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Extracts on Total Philosophy, Praxis, Historiography)

19 April 2006
1st anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

18 April 2006
Death of Albert Einstein, 1955

• NEW! Marx and Marxism Web Guide
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• The Incoherence of the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills' Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action by Fredy Perlman: links revised

13 April 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

10 April 2006
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)
— In Painful Remembrance

8 April 2006

• On Science and Phenomenology by Herbert Marcuse
• Comment on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron Gurwitsch

31 March 2006

• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)

29 March 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

28 March 2006

• "Charles Reich as Revolutionary Ostrich" by Herbert Marcuse

26 March 2006

• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold: new links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: update

23 March 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

22 March 2006

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 March 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

20 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Part II, Linguistic Philosophy; chapter 7: A Place in the Establishment
  • Part III, Marxism; chapter 1: The Dialectical Materialist Approach

17 March 2006

• "How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization): links added

16 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Part III, Marxism; chapter 2: The Laws of Thought

15 March 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

14 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Contents
  • Foreword to Second Edition
  • Part I, chapter 5, section 5: The refutation of idealism
• Maurice Cornforth on William Blake vs. the Fetishism of Language
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography (revised)

12 March 2006

• The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic by Helmut Dubiel
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: new link to online texts added

8 March 2006

• A Garland for Jack Lindsay
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

7 March 2006

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism updated

4 March 2006

• Richard Wright Defines The Outsider
• Haiku for Richard Wright by R. Dumain
• Where Zeno Peed Haiku by R. Dumain
• Pity the Poor Immigrant (for Bob Dylan), poem by R. Dumain
• Cryptogram (for William Blake), poem by R. Dumain
• My Ideal, poem by R. Dumain

2 March 2006

• Engels contra Holism

1 March 2006

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): new links

28 February 2006

• On Revolution in Epistemology by V. Kurayev
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated

24 February 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

22 February 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)

20 February 2006

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

19 February 2006

• "What Philosophers Do" by Adam Schaff

18 February 2006

• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

17 February 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

15 February 2006
Birthday of Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642)

• An Evolutionary Interpretation of the English Sonnet by Isadore Nabi
• Trockij Pravis! Memore pri la 50-a Datreveno de la Murdo de Leono Trockij de R. Dumain

13 February 2006

• Science and Evaluation by Maurice Cornforth

10 February 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised): new links
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

9 February 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

4 February 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 16: The Place of Logic and Metaphysics in the Advancement of Modern Science

1 February 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank: Introduction - Historical Background

31 January 2006
Death of Coretta Scott King (b. April 27, 1927)

26 January 2006

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (revised)

24 January 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

15 January 2006
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank: bibliographical note added to contents page

8 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 6: Mechanical "Explanation" or Mathematical Description?
  • Chapter 8: Philosophic Misinterpretations of the Quantum Theory

7 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 5: Is There a Trend Today Toward Idealism in Physics?
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

5 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 10: How Idealists and Materialists View Modern Physics

4 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Contents
  • Chapter 11: Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of the Soviet Union
• Links page updated

3 January 2006

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

2 January 2006

• Esperanto Study Guide updated: new links for interlinguistics & Esperanto
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

1 January 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

31 December 2005

• "Terminologiaj Observoj" [Ĉerpoj pri Hegel, Filozofiaj & Terminologiaj Principoj] de Yamasaki Seikô
• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography (rev.)

28 December 2005

• Marx & Engels on the Science of History

26 December 2005

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated & new links

25 December 2005
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

24 December 2005

• The Sun-Devourer (for Joan Miró) by Ralph Dumain, translation of "La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)"
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

23 December 2005

• A Personal Tribute to Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955): link added
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links

11 December 2005

• Philosophy for the Future: The Quest of Modern Materialism: Foreword & Contents: new offsite links to essays added

10 December 2005
In memoriam: Richard Pryor (1 December 1940 - 10 December 2005)

8 December 2005
In memoriam: John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

3 December 2005

• "Logical Empiricism" by Maurice Cornforth
• NEW FEATURE: Washington Philosophy Circle:
  Washington DC Metropolitan Area Philosophical Events: Past Events

1 December 2005
50th anniversary: arrest of Rosa Parks, beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott

21 November 2005

• 9-1-1 Haiku by R. Dumain
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

19 November 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

18 November 2005

• Simple and Higher Categories of the Dialectic by Georg Lukács

13 November 2005
In loving memory of Evelyn, six months gone
Evelyn Russell
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

6 November 2005

• Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
  • Herbert Marcuse: The New Society
  • Theoretical Background: Herbert Marcuse

30 October 2005

• Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
  • Contents
  • Marxism, Liberalism, and the Foundations of Scientific Method by Frederic L. Bender
  • Afterword to the German Edition by Franz Stark
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

26 October 2005
Birthday of Bootsy Collins (born William Collins, 1951)

24 October 2005
Death of Rosa Lee Parks (b. 4 February 1913)

22 October 2005

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links

15 October 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 October 2005
Pharoah Sanders' 65th birthday

1 October 2005

• The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse

27 September 2005
In memoriam: Evelyn Russell
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

21 September 2005

• Philosophy and Critical Theory (Excerpt: Philosophy and Class Society) by Herbert Marcuse

9 September 2005

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

5 September 2005

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Chapter XI: Triumph of Vedanta

3 September 2005

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Contents
  • Chapter X: Secular English Education and Learning

26 August 2005

• As of 19 August I'm doing book reviews on amazon.com. This link also appears on my Links page.

25 August 2005

• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold: external link added

23 August 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 August 2005

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

20 August 2005

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 August 2005

• William Blake—Social and Political Aspects: Bibliography Based on the Collection of Ralph Dumain

18 August 2005

• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (revised, mirrors changes above)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

14 August 2005

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Links page updated

13 August 2005
Remembering Evelyn, 3 months after

• The Vacillation of Ideology (Excerpt) by Étienne Balibar
• Book Review: Intellectuals and Public Life: added Addendum on Heine, Habermas, et al

12 August 2005
6th anniversary
of the debut of 'The Autodidact Project' web site

• "Socialist Individualism?" by Magnus E. Marsdal

11 August 2005
Birthday of Robert Green Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links updated

10 August 2005

• Comprehensive site index: Descriptive list of site pages, updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Albert Einstein and Black Americans (links added & updated)

9 August 2005
1st date with Evelyn, 1985

8 August 2005

• Reification by Gajo Petrović
• "From Hegel to Marcuse" by Lucio Colletti

6 August 2005

• NEW: Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links

5 August 2005

• Science and Philosophy in Ancient India by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
• T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason

4 August 2005

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

27 July 2005

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide)

24 July 2005

• Alternatives to Positivism by Igor Naletov: entire book now online

21 July 2005
In memoriam: Jim Murray
April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 July 2005

• Lokayata by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

17 July 2005
In memoriam: John Coltrane (23 September 1926 - 17 July 1967)

16 July 2005

• Some Loud Thinking About the Bhagavadgita by G. Ramakrishna

13 July 2005
Birthday of Nikolai A. Rubakin (1862-1946)
Founder of Bibliopsychology

• The Thematic Component by Gerald Holton

6 July 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

3 July 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

2 July 2005

• Emergence Blog (new page: current)
• Emergence Blog (archive: 23 Feb - 3 June 2005)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

1 July 2005

• Emergence Blog (new page: 23 Feb - March 2005)
• Emergence Blog: Start: 5 Nov 2004 - 25 Feb 2005 (original archive edited)

30 June 2005

• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XV: Materialism and Idealism by George Thomson
• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XIV: Being (§5 & 6) by George Thomson
• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XVI: False Consciousness by George Thomson

29 June 2005

• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society (Contents & Prefaces) by George Thomson

27 June 2005

• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by R. Dumain

23 June 2005

• "The Ideological Nature of Teaching Philosophy to Children" by Edward D'Angelo

22 June 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

21 June 2005
100th birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980)
1st day of spring

16 June 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Hegel on Education: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 June 2005

• Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis: Selected Quotations
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

10 June 2005

• Experience and Subjectivism (Sections I.F-II.D) by Marvin Farber

6 June 2005

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

5 June 2005

• "On Unreflective Reflexivity" by R. Dumain
• Edmund Husserl and the Aims of Phenomenology by Marvin Farber

23 May 2005

• Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy (review of J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West) by Ralph Dumain

21 May 2005

• Specimens of Esperanto (Mostly From Poems) That Illustrate its Unique Expressive Qualities Based on its System of Word-Building

19 May 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, new links

18 May 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 May 2005
In memoriam: Evelyn Russell (27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

• For my beloved Evelyn

2 May 2005

• Cultural Criticism and the Social Division of Labor by R. Dumain

1 May 2005
May Day: The International Workers' Holiday

• Solitude: Vignettes by R. Dumain

29 April 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Washington Philosophy Circle pages revised

28 April 2005

• The Dodo Bird (Excerpt) by Emanuel Fried
• NEW SECTION: Washington Philosophy Circle

24 April 2005

• Originality, Cultural Capital, and Class Distinction by R. Dumain
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 April 2005

• The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes by R. Dumain: Borges links added

20 April 2005

• Originality Blues: Tales of the ‘70s by R. Dumain
• The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes by R. Dumain
• Invisible Midwifery / Akuŝo Nevidebla, poem in Esperanto & English by R. Dumain: Esperanto original revised

18 April 2005
50th anniversary: death of Albert Einstein

• Einstein Gone 50 Years

10 April 2005
Birthday of Jim Murray
I love & miss you, Jim!

9 April 2005
Birthday of Paul Robeson

1 April 2005
Birthday of Samuel R. Delany (1942-)

In Memoriam: Melvin Russell
22 August 1924 - 1 April 2004

25 March 2005

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music (with photo & sound clip link): text link added
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (link added)

21 March 2005
Bobby Short dies (born Sept. 15, 1924)

20 March 2005

• The Street (Composition for Richard Wright) by Romare Bearden (image)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, new links
• Links page updated

19 March 2005

• The Ins and Outs of Lloyd’s Left Out (review of Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922 by Brian Lloyd) by R. Dumain
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (revised)

15 March 2005

• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography

11 March 2005

• After the ‘System’: Philosophy in the Age of the Sciences (Extract) by Gyorgy Markus

9 March 2005

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

8 March 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

7 March 2005
40th Anniversary of Selma Alabama Civil Rights March

• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Extracts by Alfred Sohn-Rethel: 2 sections added plus note

6 March 2005

• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Contents by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Extracts by Alfred Sohn-Rethel

5 March 2005

• Alternatives to Positivism: Contents by Igor Naletov
• The Problem of the Ideal: Contents by David Dubrovsky
• The Problem of the Ideal: Introduction by David Dubrovsky

4 March 2005

• "Games in Esperanto-Land" by R. Dumain

2 March 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) (revised)

27 February 2005

• Emergence Blog (new feature)

25 February 2005

• "Hegel's Philosophy as Basis for the Dewey Classification Schedule" by Eugene E. Graziano

12 February 2005

• Philosophy as Autobiography: Alternatives to Subjectivism by R. Dumain
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

11 February 2005

• Review: Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew by R. Dumain

10 February 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

7 February 2005

• Esperanto Study Guide updated: new links: ateismo

6 February 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

26 January 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

22 January 2005

• "The Universal" by E. V. Ilyenkov

20 January 2005
A day that will live in infamy

• "Matter and Motion" by L. Bazhenov

17 January 2005
Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography

5 January 2005

• "The Appearance of Reality and the Reality of Appearance" by David H. DeGrood

4 January 2005
Birthday of C.L.R. James (1901-1989)

3 January 2005
Will Eisner (Born 1917) Dies

30 December 2004
Artie Shaw (Born 1910) Dies

Christmas 2004
20th Anniversary: Departure from Buffalo

19 December 2004

• "Shopping Mall Blues" by R. Dumain

16 December 2004

• "The Asconan Idea in Politics" by Martin Green

15 December 2004
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

28 November 2004

• "From the Marxist-Leninist Point of View" by E. V. Ilyenkov

25 November 2004

• "Cognition in the Context of Culture" by Vladislav Lektorsky

24 November 2004

• "The Image of Science and Metaphysics" by Nina Yulina

23 November 2004

• Recenzo Nefinverkita: Evaldo Pauli, Pri Dubo kaj Certeco de R. Dumain

20 November 2004

• "Mark Starr: Socialist Educator": Interview with Martin Lawn
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

19 November 2004

• "Organized Labor and the Dewey Philosophy" by Mark Starr

12 November 2004

• “Sociolinguist Extends a Hand: Academic Forum on Esperanto at Georgetown University” by R. Dumain

11 November 2004

• Miró graphics changed: home page, site map page, & La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)

10 November 2004

• "La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• "Laŭ Afrika Melodio", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• "Ĉi-Stato sub la Ŝtato", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• Mia Deksepa Jaro, Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• Images & Sounds page updated
• Miró graphic changed on

8 November 2004

• Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music (with photo & sound clip link)

7 November 2004

• Drinkema kaj Frenezuma Filozofo Ĵŭan Ĝji (in Esperanto)

5 November 2004

• Beyond Deduction and Induction: Towards Perfect Truth According to Edgar Allen Poe: links added
• "Albert Ayler", a poem by Ralph Dumain: links added

29 October 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

27 October 2004

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (revised) [celebrating the Feuerbach Bicentennial]

23 October 2004

• Metacritique, Philosophy, & the Logic of the Intellectual Marketplace by R. Dumain

21 October 2004
Birthday of Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

• The Firesign Theater: "Temporarily Humboldt County"

19 October 2004

• Contents: The Independent Scholar's Handbook (2nd ed) by Ronald Gross

18 October 2004

• "Oh, To Freely Pursue the Scholarly Life!" by Gary Shapiro

10 October 2004
Birthday of Thelonius Monk (1917)

7 October 2004
44th anniversary: debut of television series Route 66

6 October 2004

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

5 October 2004
Rodney Dangerfield dies

4 October 2004
47th anniversary: inauguration of Space Age with launch of Sputnik
Death of Mercury & Gemini astronaut Scott Carpenter

3 October 2004

• Introduction to Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment by Raphael Mahler
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

1 October 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Links page updated

30 September 2004

• Subject, Object, Cognition: Contents & Preface to the English edition by V. A. Lektorsky
• Idealised and Real Objects by V. A. Lektorsky
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

24 September 2004

• Esperanto Study Guide updated: new links: Esperanto workers' movement & cosmopolitanism

23 September 2004
Birthday of John Coltrane (23 September 1926 - 17 July 1967)

21 September 2004
Opening of National Museum of the American Indian

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

20 September 2004

• "The Collective Subject. The Individual Subject" by V. A. Lektorsky
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links

19 September 2004

• Herman Melville & German Philosophy by Henry A. Pochmann

15 September 2004
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

12 September 2004

• Carnap’s ‘Elimination of Metaphysics’ by V. Brushlinsky

11 September 2004
In memoriam: 3 years after

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

9 September 2004

• "Lingvoplanado" (Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap

4 September 2004

• Carnap on Wittgenstein & Esperanto
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

2 September 2004

• The Incoherence of the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills' Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action by Fredy Perlman

30 August 2004

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

29 August 2004
Birthdays: Charlie Parker (1920), Dinah Washington (1924)

26 August 2004

• The Story of This Book (Preface to The Savage Hits Back) by Julius Lips

24 August 2004

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Links page updated

22 August 2004

• "Springtime for Hitler: Irony Lost-and-Found" review by R. Dumain
• Of the Material / Du Materiel (Conclusion) by Alain Bosquet

21 August 2004

• “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam” by Heinrich Heine with English translations (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

20 August 2004

• "Life-World within Brackets" by David H. DeGrood

19 August 2004

• The Honor Roll: American Philosophers Professionally Injured During the McCarthy Era by John McCumber
• The Open Society: Paradox and Challenge (Introduction) by Stanley B. Ryerson
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

18 August 2004

• "Schomburg: Cultural Education & Empowerment" by John Anthony Lugo
• "A Pioneer in Workers' Education: Mark Starr and Workers' Education in Great Britain" by Ronda Hauben

17 August 2004

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

14 August 2004

• "Collateral, or, The Philosophical Hit Man", film review by R. Dumain
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

10 August 2004

• “Reactionary Philosophy and Ambiguous Aesthetics in the Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse—A Review Essay” by Ralph Dumain [PDF file]

9 August 2004

• What It Was Like, poem by R. Dumain
• Divorce Court, poem by R. Dumain
• The Root, poem by R. Dumain

7 August 2004
Birthday of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
(7 August 1935 - 5 December 1977)

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

3 August 2004

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Yevgeny Zamyatin on Revolution, Entropy, Dogma and Heresy: links added

29 July 2004

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

27 July 2004

• NEW FEATURE: Esperanto Study Guide
• Ateisto Fan Ĝen (in Esperanto)

26 July 2004
Happy Birthday, Esperanto! (1887- )

25 July 2004

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

23 July 2004

• Links page updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography (revised)

21 July 2004
In memoriam: death of Jim Murray one year ago

• "Enlightenment Blackout" by R. Dumain
• "New York Hurt Me, New York Healed Me" by Ralph Dumain
• On Hegelian Dialectics by Bertolt Brecht

20 July 2004
35th anniversary: man first set foot on Moon

17 July 2004

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

11 July 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

9 July 2004

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, new links

6 July 2004

• "A Scientist, or a Man of Wisdom?" by Galina Kirilenko & Lydia Korshunova

4 July 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

25 June 2004
Happy birthday to me!

• Alvin Gouldner on Intellectuals & the Social Totality

19 June 2004

• "Metaphysics and Anti-Metaphysics of Positivism" by Igor Naletov

6 June 2004
D-Day: 60th anniversary

• Alvin Gouldner on the New Class & the Culture of Critical Discourse

31 May 2004

• "Theory and Ideology" by Alvin Gouldner

23 May 2004

• Dialectical Theory of Meaning: Part Three: General Definition of Meaning: The Interrelationships of the Individual Dimensions of Meaning by Mihailo Marković

20 May 2004

• "Toward a Materialistic Foundation of Logic" by Karel Berka

17 May 2004
50-year anniversary:
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas,
landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision banning racial segregation in public schools

16 May 2004

• Dialectical Theory of Meaning: Part Two: Linguistic Meaning (Extract) by Mihailo Marković

12 May 2004

• Dialectical Theory of Meaning: Part One (Extracts) by Mihailo Marković

1 May 2004
May Day: The International Workers' Holiday

• Anxious Intellects: From Contradiction to Complacency, reviewed by R. Dumain

22 April 2004

• “Anti‑Semitism and National Socialism” by Moishe Postone

21 April 2004

• "We Real Kitsch: bell hooks on the Black Male", review by R. Dumain

16 April 2004

• “Marx and Critical Scientific Thought” by Mihailo Marković

10 April 2004
In memoriam: Jim Murray
April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003

4 April 2004

• Heinrich Heine page updated

2 April 2004
In memoriam: Melvin Russell
22 August 1924 - 1 April 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

30 March 2004

• The Alienation of Reason (Extract) by Leszek Kolakowski

29 March 2004

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Links page updated

24 March 2004

• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist
• Heinrich Heine: Selected Bibliography
• “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam” by Heinrich Heine with English translations

21 March 2004

• "Candle in the Wind": Excerpt from Memoir in Progress by Emanuel Fried
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

20 March 2004

• Bush’s Underlying Intention

15 March 2004

• Die Gedanken Sind Frei (My Thoughts Are Free)

10 March 2004

• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)

8 March 2004
International Women’s Day
Birthday of Harriet Tubman

• Commemorating International Women’s Day: Women on the Frontlines of Popular Enlightenment by R. Dumain

6 March 2004

• E.P. Thompson on William Blake & Intellectual Traditions

2 March 2004

• Big Bill Broonzy vs Folk Ideology
• Links page updated

29 February 2004
Happy Leap Day!

• New Year's Resolution: Exploring Philosophical Cultures (December 2003 - January 2004)

26 February 2004

• Bibliography of Board Games & Related Games & Recreations

25 February 2004

• Ishmael Reed, William Blake, and the '60s According to Shamoon Zamir
• Links page updated

23 February 2004

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

22 February 2004

• The Philosophy and Information Professions: SIG/AH Program, 50th ASIS Annual Meeting, Boston, 1987 organized by R. Dumain

21 February 2004
Second anniversary of this web site at current domain
7 months' anniversary of death of Jim Murray
Birthday of Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003)

• “The Common Well” (To Charles Chaplin) by Piet Hein

20 February 2004

• "How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization)
• "Surrationally Yours" by R. Dumain

10 February 2004

• Durankulak: Aldono [addendum to Durankulak review]
• Abstract added to The Jazz Avant-Garde, Mysticism & Society: Meaning, Method & the Young Hegelians by R. Dumain

4 February 2004

• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)

3 February 2004

• The Jazz Avant-Garde, Mysticism & Society: Meaning, Method & the Young Hegelians by R. Dumain

1 February 2004

• Dialogiko je la Fino de Dialektiko: Enkonduko de Eugen Macko
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

25 January 2004

• Dialogiko je la Fino de Dialektiko: Enhavo / Dialogic at the End of Dialectic: Contents, de/by Eugen Macko
• Review (Recenzo): Sabira Ståhlberg, Durankulak by/de R. Dumain (in Esperanto)
• "William Blake and Quantum Mechanics—NOT! Blakes for Our Time?" by R. Dumain

22 January 2004

• "The Reactionary Philosophy, Ambiguous Aesthetics, and Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse" by Ralph Dumain
• Ideology? (photographs)

20 January 2004

• Ruler of the Universe as Solipsist: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

16 January 2004

• Evald Ilyenkov's Philosophy Revisited

11 January 2004

• "«Mi Ne Deziras Esti Juvelo»" de Georgi Miĥalkov
• Christopher Hampton's Radical Blake

10 January 2004

• Blake & Ginsberg & Then & Now
• William Blake in the Universe of Knowledge: Philosophy, Genres, & Critical Method
• NEW: William Blake Study Guide

27 December 2003

• Professional and Popular Philosophy: Online Debates

26 December 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Books Received list updated
• Links page updated

24 December 2003

• Wisdom and Abstract Thought by R. Dumain

22 December 2003

• “Resignation” (Excerpts) by Theodor W. Adorno
• December Diary 2003: 3nd entry

21 December 2003

• The Everlasting Gospel (variant) by William Blake

19 December 2003

• «L’athéisme espérantophone» par Martin Lavallée

17 December 2003

• ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R. Dumain
• Afrikanaj Usonanoj por Humanismo de R. Dumain
• “Dialogo kun Afrika Esperantisto” Dialogas R. Dumain & D-ro Akwasi Osei
• “Dubo kaj Ateismo” de Evlogi Dankov
• “Postkomentaro al Dankov” [Dubo & Ateismo] de R. Dumain

16 December 2003

• El Kontraŭreligia Propagando de Leono Trockij, tradukis R. Dumain
• El Dio kaj la Ŝtato de Mikaelo Bakunin, tradukis R. Dumain

15 December 2003
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

• “Kontraŭ la Diktaturo de Alaho” tradukis R. Dumain

13 December 2003

• Intellectual Traditions, Alienation, and the Integration of Knowledge by R. Dumain
• Books Received list updated

9 December 2003

• December Diary 2003: 2nd entry

8 December 2003

• "Remembering the Past and Forgetting Yourself, Or, Why Oprah Is Not an Abolitionist" by R. Dumain

6 December 2003

• "Hegel, Marx, Goldner, C.L.R. James, Enlightenment & the Philosophical Dichotomies" by Ralph Dumain

3 December 2003

• December Diary 2003
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

1 December 2003

• Some Reflections of Roy Wood Sellars

30 November 2003

• Metacritique Critiqued by R. Dumain

28 November 2003
William Blake's 246th birthday

27 November 2003

• "Pro Mia Venta Furioz’", translation of poem by William Blake by R. Dumain
• Adorno & the Dualities by R. Dumain

26 November 2003

• C.L.R. James & Usona Kulturo (C.L.R. James & American Culture) de Ralph Dumain (in Esperanto)
• C.L.R. James and American Culture: Addendum by Ralph Dumain

25 November 2003

• Historical Origins of the Logic of Classification and the Logic of Genesis by Harry K. Wells
• "Malfermu la Sonon (por Miles Davis, 1959)", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain with English translation
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• "Kultura Revolucio en Sovetunio: Lingvaj Reformoj kaj Esperanto, 1917-1937" de Michael Smith, trad. R. Dumain

24 November 2003

• "The Striving", poem by R. Dumain
• "The Poet Looks Out on P Street in Late December", poem by R. Dumain
• What It Is, poem by R. Dumain
• Invisible Midwifery / Akuŝo Nevidebla, poem in Esperanto & English by Ralph Dumain
• La Interna Ideo, poem by R. Dumain (in Esperanto)
• Review (Recenzo): Evaldo Pauli, "Rekta Pensado" by R. Dumain (in Esperanto)
• Review (Recenzo): Emba, "Maria kaj la Grupo" by Ralph Dumain (in Esperanto)
• NEW SECTION: Originalaj Verkoj en Esperanto / Original Writings in Esperanto
• Harry Wells on the History of Logic by Ralph Dumain
• Links page updated

22 November 2003
40th anniversary of assassination of President Kennedy—
I remember it like it was yesterday.

• The Sacred and the Profane: The Arbitrary Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu by Karl Maton

21 November 2003

• Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution by Ralph Dumain

20 November 2003

• Adorno contra Husserl by Ralph Dumain
• Marxism & Totality & Gramsci & Della Volpe by Ralph Dumain

19 November 2003

• Max Horkheimer's Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism by Ralph Dumain
• "Heidegger's Jargon" by Ralph Dumain
• On Goldmann, Lukacs, Heidegger, and Adorno by Ralph Dumain
• 2003 Reading Review by Ralph Dumain

18 November 2003

• Jeffrey Herf on Reactionary Modernism & Dialectic of Enlightenment
• R. Dumain's Critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment

17 November 2003

• Literature, Race, & Money: Selected Bibliography

14 November 2003

• Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman, review by Ralph Dumain

5 November 2003

• Problem of Wisdom as a Real Problem by Theodore Oizerman

4 November 2003

• Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman: Contents
• The Main Trends in Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman: Contents

2 November 2003

• Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov: Contents
• Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov, review by R. Dumain
• Links page updated

1 November 2003

• Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman: Contents
• Philosophy and Everyday Consciousness by Theodore Oizerman
• Dialectical Materialism and Hegel's Philosophy of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman

31 October 2003

• "Buffalo's Manny Fried: Laboring For The Working Man" by Jamie Moses

30 October 2003

• "Interview with Manny Fried" by Mike Mahoney

29 October 2003

• Friedrich Schlegel on Philosophy in Music
• C.L.R. James on Descartes & the Division of Labor
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

10 October 2003

• "The Slowdown" by Emanuel Fried
• Books Received list updated

8 October 2003

• Artie Awards Honor Playwright Manny Fried

5 October 2003

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated

2 October 2003

• Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing (Chapter 1) by Emanuel Fried
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

25 September 2003

• Pardon Me, Your Class Is Showing, PhD dissertation by Emanuel Fried
• Preface: A Letter to Dr. Leslie A. Fiedler, July 17, 1974 by Emanuel Fried

20 September 2003

• Lorraine Hansberry's Humanism
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

15 September 2003
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

26 August 2003

• The Search for an Alternative 8: The Historical Outcome of Subjectivism by Marvin Farber

24 August 2003

• "Shuffle Back to Buffalo" by Emanuel Fried

23 August 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

21 August 2003
1-month anniversary:
In Memoriam:
Jim Murray
Director, The C.L.R. James Institute
April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003

27 July 2003

• "Leslie Fiedler and Me" by Emanuel Fried

26 July 2003

• Letter from Albert Einstein to Emanuel Fried

21 July 2003

• "Philosophy & the Division of Labor" by Max Horkheimer & T.W. Adorno
• Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld

13 July 2003

• Mind and Politics: Introduction by Ellen Meiksins Wood

5 July 2003

• The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary
• The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations

25 June 2003
Ralph Dumain turns 50

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, revised

19 June 2003
50th anniversary of the execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
by the U.S. government, a day that will live in infamy

• NEW UNIT ON THIS SITE! The Emanuel Fried Center

13 June 2003

• NEW STUDY GUIDE: American Philosophy
• 100 Years of C.L.R. James added to study guides
• The Search for an Alternative 9: From the Perspective of Materialism by Marvin Farber

3 June 2003

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (revised)

2 June 2003

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Links page updated

1 June 2003

• The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires: expanded with section "Take Two"

28 May 2003

• The Search for an Alternative I: Subjectivism, Phenomenology, Marxism, and the Role of Alternatives by Marvin Farber

25 May 2003

• Introduction: "The Great Tribulation: Winnipeg's First General Strike" [by "Libertas Brammel"] by A. Ross McCormack

24 May 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

21 May 2003

• "Alien Resurrection in the Ghetto" by Ralph Dumain

20 May 2003

• "The Autodidacts and Their Literary Culture: Working-Class Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century France" by Martyn Lyons

19 May 2003

• The Philosophy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk

18 May 2003

• The Issue of Naturalism vs. Subjectivism by Marvin Farber
• Naturalism and Subjectivism: Contents by Marvin Farber
• The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires: Addendum

14 May 2003

• "Autodidacticism and the Desire for Culture" by Rosemary Chapman

12 May 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated

11 May 2003

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

9 May 2003

• "Thoughts on Autodidacticism" by John W. Osborne

6 May 2003

• Christopher Caudwell: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

5 May 2003
185th Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)

28 April 2003

• Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics

25 April 2003

• Reflections on American Philosophy From Within: Chapter 8—Intersecting Dialectical Materialism

24 April 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

23 April 2003

• Nina Simone: A Personal Tribute

21 April 2003
In memoriam: Nina Simone, 21 February 1933 - 21 April 2003

• Reflections on American Philosophy From Within: Foreword & Table of Contents
• Reflections on American Philosophy From Within: Chapter 1—The Nature of the Project

18 April 2003
Death of Albert Einstein, 18 April 1955

• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Hegel on Education: Selected Bibliography (revised)

16 April 2003

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated
• Books Received list updated

14 April 2003
Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto: 15 December 1859 - 14 April 1917

• Philosophy for the Future: The Quest of Modern Materialism: Foreword & Contents

13 April 2003

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new link

9 April 2003
Birthday of Paul Robeson (9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976)

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Links page updated

6 April 2003

• "Intellectuals Among the Masses: Or, What Was Leonard Bast Really Like?" by Jonathan Rose

1 April 2003
Samuel R. Delany's 61th birthday

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

31 March 2003

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, revised

29 March 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

28 March 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

27 March 2003

• Albert Einstein and Black Americans

25 March 2003

• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography (revised)
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated

19 March 2003

• "Compared to What" by Eugene McDaniels
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Books Received list updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

18 March 2003

• Black Music & the American Surrealists: A Bibliography (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated

17 March 2003

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

14 March 2003
Albert Einstein's birthday (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)

• Ideology Study Guide update

13 March 2003

• "Einstein Revisited" by Ralph Dumain
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

5 March 2003

• Soviet Historiography of Philosophy: Review Essay by Ralph Dumain

4 March 2003

• FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist", by Ralph Dumain
• "Frames of Articulation" by Frithjof Rodi

2 March 2003

• NEW Study Guide: Black Studies, Music, America vs Europe

28 February 2003

• 'Anthony Braxton: The Third Millennial Interview with Mike Heffley':
  Extracts, with Commentary by Ralph Dumain

27 February 2003

• How to Study: A Guide for Students (Jefferson School of Social Science)
• "Jitterbugs" by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

24 February 2003

• Dead Man, Dead Criticism by Ralph Dumain

21 February 2003
First anniversary of this web site at current domain

19 February 2003

• T.W. Adorno on the Division of Philosophy & Labor
• New study guide: Theodor W. Adorno
• Jack Lindsay and British Poetry in the 1930s by Adrian Caesar

15 February 2003
Birthday of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

12 February 2003

• Review of Ronald Gross' The Independent Scholar's Handbook (2nd ed.)

31 January 2003

• "Hegel's Method of Doing Philosophy Historically: A Reply" by James Lawler & Vladimir Shtinov

30 January 2003

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

29 January 2003
Freethinker's Day
Birthday of Thomas Paine (29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809)

24 January 2003

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

19 January 2003

• Books Wanted list updated

17 January 2003

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated
• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine, page revised
• Links page updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated
• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French: Update

16 January 2003

• Hyenas: Film Review: Addendum

15 January 2003
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)

• ‘Dead Man’, A Film by Jim Jarmusch: Running Commentary 15 April 1997 – 30 June 1997

31 December 2002
Happy New Year!

• "The New Age Mythology" by Michael Parenti
• Moore Crossey on Walter Goldwater, Bill French, & Onitsha Market Literature
• Links page updated

28 December 2002

• The Man of Science in a World of Crisis: A Plea for a Two-Pronged Attack on Positivism and Irrationalism by Aant Elzinga

25 December 2002
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

22 December 2002

• "Philosophy Hits the Newsstands" by Joshua Glenn

16 December 2002

• "The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratic Images" by Aant Elzinga
• Books Received (updated)
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15 December 2002
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

1 December 2002

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (rev.)

28 November 2002
William Blake's 245th birthday

16 November 2002

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Books Wanted list updated

5 November 2002

• "Scientism, Romanticism and Social Realist Images of Science" by Aant Elzinga

27 October 2002

• Karl Marx on Philosophy after Its Completion
• Links page updated
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

26 October 2002

• Science, Society, and Life: Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx (1844)

20 October 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

17 October 2002

• Links page updated

14 October 2002

• "Philosophy & Everyday Life: Prologue to Discussion" by Ralph Dumain

13 October 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

4 October 2002
45th anniversary: inauguration of Space Age with launch of Sputnik

3 October 2002

• Fichte on Philosophy as the Mind's Self-Mastery

30 September 2002

• "How to Integrate Philosophy and Everyday Life: To Think Philosophically in Life, Or Reproduce the Fragmentation of Knowledge?" by Ralph Dumain

21 September 2002

• The Functions of Irony (Diagram) by Linda Hutcheon
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

17 September 2002

• "Irony" by Norman D. Knox

11 September 2002
One year after

• T.W. Adorno on Theory, Practice, & Moral Philosophy

8 September 2002

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (revised)
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)

5 September 2002

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

1 September 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Descriptive site index updated
• Books Wanted list updated

29 August 2002
35th anniversary: final episode of The Fugitive:
"The day the running stopped."

22 August 2002

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 August 2002

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)

20 August 2002

Redesign of this page with new graphic (see above)

7 August 2002
NEW FEATURES:
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• New division of site map: Images & Sounds
• New navigation button added to Home Page & Site Map
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• CARTOON: Inside the Language Undercover
• Modifications to Book News & Books Received

28 July 2002

• "Richard Wright: In a Class by Himself" [review of Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley] by Ralph Dumain

27 July 2002

• "Nonsense, Irony, Humor" by Susan Stewart
• Karl Marx vs. Cynical Reason: On Suppositions of Naked Self-Interest: Part II (additional quote) added

24 July 2002

• Ideology Study Guide update

23 July 2002

• "Historical Remarks on the Question of Organization" by Jürgen Habermas
• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

22 July 2002

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

11 July 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

4 July 2002
Democracy, anyone?

• Contents and Introduction to The Concept of Ideology by Jorge Larrain
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

25 June 2002
Happy birthday to me!

• "Dialectics Not a Sociology of Knowledge" by Theodor W. Adorno
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (rev.)

22 June 2002

• Explanation Explained by René Magritte

19 June 2002

• "Philosophy and the History of Philosophy" by Jonathan Rée (quotes)
• Books Received updated

8 June 2002

• NEW Study Guide: Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie)
• Chapter 2: "The Contemporary Crisis in Bourgeois Philosophy" by András Gedö
       2. Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie)

5 June 2002

• Chapter 2: "The Contemporary Crisis in Bourgeois Philosophy" by András Gedö
       1. Neopositivism: Linguistic Philosophy and Critical Rationalism

1 June 2002

• Preface to Process and Unreality: A Criticism of Method in Whitehead's Philosophy by Harry K. Wells

30 May 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

28 May 2002

• Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy by András Gedö: Table of Contents

22 May 2002

In memoriam: Stephen Jay Gould,
palaeontologist & popular science writer,
September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

• "Two Aspects of Bourgeois Crisis Consciousness" by András Gedö
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

16 May 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

15 May 2002

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (rev.)

12 May 2002

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

11 May 2002

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

6 May 2002

• Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity

1 May 2002
May Day, the international workers' holiday

• Book Review (Draft): Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley

30 April 2002

• Book Review: Intellectuals and Public Life
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

26 April 2002

• Adolph L. Reed, Jr. on Organicism, Authoritarianism, Clericalism, & Black Politics
• "Inside and Outside" by T.W. Adorno

16 April 2002

• "The Development of Thomas Davidson's Religious and Social Thought" by James A. Good

1 April 2002: Samuel R. Delany's 60th birthday

24 March 2002

• Bonny Delany: on science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (rev.)
• The Wages of Cynicism by Michael Miley (rev.)

16 March 2002

• The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery and 19th Century African American Music, PhD dissertation by Greg Harrison, selections, with an introduction by R. Dumain
• Observorman: a blast from the '60s

14 March 1879: birth of Albert Einstein

11 March 2002
September 11, 6 months after

• Ground Zero Photo Gallery

4 March 2002

• Letter to Ludwig Feuerbach from Ottilie Assing about Frederick Douglass

3 March 2002

• Ground Zero: Crying for New York

26 February 2002

• "Popes, Kings & Cultural Studies: Placing the commitment to non-disciplinarity in historical context" by Karl Maton

24 February 2002

• Anthony Braxton: Selected Bibliography (rev.): links added
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (rev.): image added

23 February 2002
NEW FEATURE: BOOK NEWS

• Home and Site Map pages redesigned with new navigation button
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• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

21 February 2002
The Autodidact Project has moved
to a new location, with its own domain:
http://autodidactproject.org

• "Bill French & Onitsha Market Literature" by Kurt Thometz

30 January 2002
In memoriam: Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
August 1, 1930 - January 23, 2002

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

23 January 2002

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

20 January 2002

• "Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine" by Christopher Lasch

19 January 2002

• Bertolt Brecht: "Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties" (quotation)

18 January 2002

• "Historical Amnesia" by Karl Maton & Rob Moore
• "Pocahontas": an intellectual play by Edward W. Pearlstien

15 January 2002
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "Myth Today" by Roland Barthes

10 January 2002

• "The Visionary's Diary" (poem by Ralph Dumain)
• "The Traditional Canon vs. Multiculturalism in the Literary Profession: A Sterile Debate" by Ralph Dumain (revised)

9 January 2002

• "Two Artists Discuss Their Craft", poem by Ralph Dumain
• "Alien Intercourse", humorous poem by Ralph Dumain

7 January 2002

• "The Traditional Canon vs. Multiculturalism in the Literary Profession: A Sterile Debate" by Ralph Dumain

4 January 2002
101st birthday of C.L.R. James

30 December 2001
Happy New Year!

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25 December 2001
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• "Towards a Marxist Aesthetic" by Jack Lindsay
• Links page updated

21 December 2001

• "High Life & Mad English": Kurt Thometz reviewed by John Strausbaugh

20 December 2001

• "Existentialism" by Georg Lukács

19 December 2001

• "Cynicism as a Form of Ideology" by Slavoj Zizek

16 December 2001

• "Globalization, Internationalism, and the Class Politics of Cynical Reason" by Teresa L. Ebert

15 December 2001
Site passes 3 megabyte mark
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

• "The Graphic Figure & the Philosophical Abstraction" by Ion Banu
• Science and Nature, Table of Contents, issues #1-10 (1978-1989) (rev.)
• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography (rev.)

9 December 2001

• Hegel on Number Mysticism: Pythagoreanism, Astrology, I Ching

1 December 2001

• René Magritte on the Revolutionary Artist vs. Folk Art & Stalinism
• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French: Update

30 November 2001
In Memoriam: George Harrison

• Groundhog Day: The Problem of Consciousness (film review)

20 November 2001

• Black Music & the American Surrealists: A Bibliography (rev.)
• Links page updated

19 November 2001
Celebrate William Blake's 244th birthday on 28 November

• William Blake's "The Smile": Commentary by Ralph Dumain
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

6 November 2001

• Richard Wright Study Guide: Update

31 October 2001

• Science and Nature, Table of Contents, issues #1-10 (1978-1989)

30 October 2001

• "A Tribute to Lester (Hank) Talkington" by Lloyd Motz

25 October 2001

• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography

23 October 2001

• Bill French—A Sister's View by Bettina French

22 October 2001

• Ishmael Reed: Literary Ambulance Chaser? by Ralph Dumain
• Some Comments on The Prisoner by Ralph Dumain
• Black Music & the American Surrealists: A Bibliography

21 October 2001

• "On the Dialectics of Metamathematics" (Excerpts) by Peter Vardy
• Richard Wright Study Guide

20 October 2001

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1)
• "On the Comic" by Tatyana Lyubimova

18 October 2001

• Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Selected vols. (Eastern Europe & Marxism)
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) (rev.)
• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French: Update

16 October 2001

• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French: Update
• The William Plummer French Prize
• "Black Studies: Getting Started in a Specialty" by William P. French

12 October 2001

• "Objectivity & Partisanship in Science" by Aant Elzinga
• "Sexism as an Issue in Culture and Art: The Case of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" by Ralph Dumain

11 October 2001
One month after

• Bonnie Bilyeu Gordon, Songs from Unsung Worlds: Science in Poetry, reviewed by Ralph Dumain

10 October 2001

• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French: Update

9 October 2001

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)

6 October 2001

• "The Concept of the Ideal" by E. V. Ilyenkov

4 October 2001
44th anniversary of the Space Age

• "Skies of America" by Ornette Coleman

27 September 2001

• Ideology: Descriptive, Pejorative, Positive Views, by Raymond Geuss
     1. Ideology in the Descriptive Sense
     2. Ideology in the Pejorative Sense
     3. Ideology in the Positive Sense
  

26 September 2001

• Chief Adario on the White Man's Morals

25 September 2001

• "On the Dialectico-Materialist Type of Rationality" by Jindrich Zeleny

23 September 2001
In commemoration of John Coltrane's 75th birthday

• Upon the First Snow-Storm of the Season: Blake & Coltrane in Esperanto
  (original poem with English translation)

17 September 2001
Oppose all racism and fundamentalism!

• Red Jacket vs. Christianity: The Native American as Rationalist

13 September 2001
IN MOURNING