BOOKS RECEIVED

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Adorno, Theodor; Cook, Stephen, ed. The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.

Alleyne, Brian W. Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics. New York: Berg, 2002.

Amarasingam, Amarnath, ed. Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences; v. 25. Studies in Critical Research on Religion; v. 1)

Asouzu, Innocent I. The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and beyond African Philosophy. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005. (Studies in African Philosophy; v. 4)

Atten, Mark Van. On Brouwer. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. London; New York: Hogarth, 2016.

Atwood, Margaret. Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976- 1986. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.

Basinski, Michael. In Buffalo Poems of a Polish-American Boy Poems. Kanona, NY: FootHills Publishing, 2016.

Becker, Ulrich, ed. Esperanto in the New York Times, 1887-1922. New York: Mondial, 2010.

Bernasconi, Robert; Lott, Tommy L.; eds. The Idea of Race. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2000.

Bloch, Ernst. Heritage of Our Times, translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.

Bokarjova, Antonina. Sciencisto, Esperantisto, Patro: Eŭgeno Bokarjov. Moskvo: Eldonejo «Impeto», 2010. 143 p. Kun artikoloj de Eŭgeno Bokarjov.

Borges, Jorge Luis. La Sekreta Miraklo; kompilis kaj redaktis István Ertl; tradukis el la hispana Jorge Camacho, Giulio Cappa, Tomasz Chmielik, Fernando de Diego, Liven Dek, István Ertl, Higinio García, Kris Long, Gonçalo Neves, Joxemari Sarasua, Francisco Veuthey. Kalinigrad: Sezonoj, 2008. 200 p. (Serio Mondliteraturo; Volumo 16).

Brinton, Maurice. For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton; edited by David Goodway. Edinburgh; Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2004.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2014.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; with a new preface and afterword. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (I am listed in the bibliography.)

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists. 2nd ed. New York; London: Routledge, 2002. (Differs significantly from 1st edition: Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1994.)

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Contents.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Socialism Unbound. 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. (1st ed: New York; London: Routledge, 1990.)

Brown, Andrew. J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. (Originally 2005)

Carey, John. The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Critical Theory and Society, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas Kellner. New York: Routledge, 1989. 

Crouch, Stanley. Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing. New York: Pantheon, 2000.

Davis, Walter A. Art and Politics: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, Theatre. London; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007. Publisher description.

Davis, Walter A. Death’s Dream Kingdom: The American Psyche Since 9-11. London; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2006. Table of contents. Publisher description.

Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom [unabridged edition], with an introduction by Bill E. Lawson. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books [Prometheus], 2002.

Dumain, Harold J. The Emerald. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., 2014.

The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian: 50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood; edited by István Bori; with Noémi Kiss, Péter Rácz, Gábor Vaderna; articles by Csilla Bakody ... [et al.]; translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry. North Adams, MA: New Europe Books, 2012.

Ferguson, Stephen C., II. Philosophy of African American Studies: Nothing Left of Blackness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. viii, 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-54996-9. $100.

Fried, Emanuel. Meshugah and Other Stories. Buffalo, NY: Labor Arts Books, 1982.

Fried, Emanuel. Most Dangerous Man: A Personal Memoir. Kansas City, KS: John Brown Press, 2010.

Fried, Mindy. Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. xii, 185 pp.

Gardner, Stanley. The Tyger, The Lamb, and the Terrible Desart: Songs of Innocence and of Experience in its Times and Circumstance: Including Facsimiles of Two Copies. London: Cygnus Arts; Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. (Courtesy of Thomas Dillingham.)

Gudskov, Nikolao. Kiel la Homo Ekis Pensi: Eseoj pri la Helena Filozofio. Moskvo: Impeto, 2012.

Hall, Carla; Ko, Genevieve. Cooking with Love: Comfort Food that Hugs You. New York: Free Press, 2012.

Harrison, Greg. Strains of Freedom: A Philosophical History of African American Music and Slavery. 2018, vi, 465 pp.

Haug, Wolfgang Fritz. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality, and Advertising in Capitalist Society; translated by Robert Bock. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

Hayes, Charles D[ouglas]. Beyond the American Dream: Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World. Wassila, Alaska: Autodidactic Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-9621979-2-0.

Hayes, Charles D[ouglas]. A Mile North of Good and Evil. Wassila, Alaska: Autodidactic Press, 2015.

Hayes, Charles D[ouglas]. Portals in a Northern Sky. Wassila, Alaska: Autodidactic Press, February 2003. ISBN: 0962197955.

Hayes, Charles D[ouglas]. The Rapture of Maturity: A Legacy of Lifelong Learning. Wassila, Alaska: Autodidactic Press, 2004.

Hayes, Charles D[ouglas]. September University: Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life. Wassila, Alaska: Autodidactic Press, 2010.

Hintikka, Jaakko. On Gödel. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Igwe, Ukoro Theophilus. Communicative Rationality and Deliberative Democracy of Jürgen Habermas: Toward Consolidation of Democracy in Africa. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2005. (Studies in African Philosophy)

Jankowski, Tomek. Eastern Europe! Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does. North Adams, MA: New Europe Books, 2013.

Jászberényi, Sándor. The Devil Is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond, translated from the Hungarian by M. Henderson Ellis. Williamstown, MA: New Europe Books, 2014.

Johansson, Sten. Kroze-proze: Literatura Esearo. Stockholm: Eldona Societo Esperanto, 2013.

Kamber, Richard. On Sartre. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

King, Richard H. Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals: 1940-1970. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Korzhenkov, Aleksander. Zamenhof: The Life, Works and Ideas of the Author of Esperanto; translated by Ian M. Richmond; edited by Humphrey Tonkin. New York: Mondial, 2010.

Kul-Want, Christopher; Piero, illus. Introducing Slavoj �i�ek. London: Icon Books Ltd, 2012.

Korĵenkov, Aleksandr. Zamenhofologio: Aktualaj Problemoj kaj Taskoj. Kaliningrado: Sezonoj, 2009. 16 pp. (Sed ne el katedro; 5)

Landa, Ishay. The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. Table of contents. Publisher information.

Lee, Wendy Lynne. On Marx. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Lott, Tommy L. African-American Philosophy: Selected Readings. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Lukács, Georg. The Destruction of Reason, translated by Peter Palmer. London: The Merlin Press, 1980.

Macko, Eugen. Dialogiko je la Fino de Dialektiko: Liberigo la Pensadon de la Hegela Dialektiko per la Dialogiko de Rosenzweig kaj la Ne-dialektika Ontologio de Heidegger / Dialogik am Ende der Dialektik. München: Eugen Macko, 2001. 476 p. Dulingva eldono (Esperanto/germana). (Dialogic at the End of Dialectic: Liberation of the Thought of the Hegelian Dialectic by Means of the Dialogic of Rosenzweig and the Non-Dialectical Ontology of Heidegger, bilingual Esperanto-German edition.)

Manheim, Ernest. Authority, Culture, and Communication: The Sociology of Ernest Manheim, edited by Frank Baron, David Norman Smith, and Charles Reitz. Heidelberg: Publishers, 2005.

McCumber, John. Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001.

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. (Courtesy of Daniel S. Mesnik)

McClendon, John H. C.L.R. James’s Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Moggach, Douglas. The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Moldova, György. Ballpoint: A Tale of Genius and Grit, Perilous Times, and the Invention That Changed the Way We Write; translated from the Hungarian by David Robert Evans. North Adams, MA: New Europe Books, 2012.

Nanda, Meera. The God Market: How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu. Noida, India; London: Random House India, 2009.

Nanda, Meera. Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindi Nationalism in India. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Nanda, Meera. The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva. Gurgaon (Haryana), India: Three Essays Collective, July 2005.

Nuccetelli, Susana; Seay, Gary; eds. Latin American Philosophy: An Introduction with Readings. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004.

Ollman, Bertell. Ball Buster? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2002. ISBN 1-887128-92-1. Distributed by Publishers Group West.

Oe, Kenzaburo. Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!, translated by John Nathan. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

Ollman, Bertell. Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Ollman, Bertell. How to Take an Exam . . . and Remake the World. Montréal; New York; London: Black Rose Books, 1991.

On the Front Lines: Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York. University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, April 2, 2016 - August 7, 2016. Exhibition Catalog. 11 pp.

Perry, Jeffrey B., ed. A Hubert Harrison Reader. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Perry, Jeffrey B. Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

Pfister, Lauren F., ed. Hermeneutical Thinking in Chinese Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2007. (Book supplement series to the Journal of Chinese Philosophy)

Philips, Michael. The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies, and Delusions. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2008.

Philosophy and Science Fiction, Peter A. French & Howard K. Wettstein, eds.; Eric Schwitzgebel, guest co-ed. Boston, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015. (Midwest Studies in Philosophy; 39)

Pinsky, Robert; Dietz, Maggie; editors. Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, June 2002. (William Blake contribution submitted by R. Dumain, pp. 256-257.)

Pomeroy, Anne Fairchild. Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. (SUNY Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences)

Porter, Burton Frederick. Philosophy Through Fiction and Film. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.

Priest, Graham. Beyond the Limits of Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Courtesy of Daniel S. Mesnik)

Radn�ti, Mikl�s. All That Still Matters at All: Selected Poems of Mikl�s Radn�ti, translated by John M. Ridland & Peter V. Czipott. Milwaukee; Urbana: New American Press, 2014.

Reisch, George. How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press, April 2005. (Courtesy of David De Santis)

Reitz, Charles. Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

Reuss, Frederick. Henry of Atlantic City. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Reuss, Frederick. The Wasties. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002.

Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, 2003.

Rosengarten, Frank. The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust (1885-1900): An Ideological Critique. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. (Francophone Cultures and Literatures; vol. 34)

Rowley, Hazel. Richard Wright: The Life and Times. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2001. x + 626 pp. $35.00. See review by Ralph Dumain.

Salerno, Joseph. On Frege. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Satterwhite, Pamela. Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves from Work. Berkeley: Humming Words / NEW (Nascenece to End Work) Press, 2009.

Schmidt, Jeff. Disciplined Minds : A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and The Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Schwarz, Bill, ed. West Indian Intellectuals in Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. (Studies in Imperialism)

Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Senn, Ann. Open Systems for Better Business: Something Ventured, Something Gained. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

Shuy, Roger W. Linguistics in the Courtroom: A Practical Guide. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Sokal, Alan. Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Table of contents.

Soros, Tivadar (Dr. Teodoro Schwartz). Crusoes in Siberia and The Fairest Judgment; translated from Esperanto and edited by Humphrey Tonkin; with prefaces by George Soros and Paul Soros. New York: Mondial, 2010.

Spark, Clare L. Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, May 2001. ISBN 0873386744

Spinoza, Benedictus de. The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings, edited by Michael L. Morgan, with the translations of Samuel Shirley. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2006.

Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time; for the prosecution, David Brin; for the defense, Matthew Woodring Stover. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2006.

Steinmetz, George, ed. The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Contents.

Szathmári, Sándor. Voyage to Kazohinia, translated from the Hungarian by Inez Kemenes. North Adams, MA: New Europe Books, 2012. Blurb by R. Dumain.

Thometz, Kurt. Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. (See Kurt Thometz's Afterword and review by John Strausbaugh.)

Thompson, Michael J., ed. Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.

Tian, Chenshan. Chinese Dialectics: From Yijing to Marxism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Velarde-Mayol, Victor. On Husserl. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000. (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Vivis—Vojaĝis—Verkis: Esearo omaĝe al Vasilij Eroŝenko, 1890-1952, red. SIBAYAMA Zyun'iti. Tokio: Japana Esperanto-Instituto, 2015. 100 p. La Komitato por Celebri la 125-jaran Jubileon de Eroŝenko.

Watson, Ben.  Adorno for Revolutionaries. London: Unkant Publishers, 2011.

Watson, Ben. Art, Class & Cleavage: Quantulumcunque Concerning Materialist Esthetix. London: Quartet Books, 1998.

Watson, Ben.  Honesty is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, edited by W.C. Bamberger. Borgo Press, 2000.

Webb, Constance. Not Without Love: Memoirs. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College / University Press of New England, 2003.

Wright, Donald R. The Only Prayer I'll Ever Pray: Let My People Go. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2009.

Zamenhof, L. L. (Ludwik Lazar). Mi Estas Homo: Originalaj Verkoj de D-ro L.L. Zamenhof; komplis, komentis, Aleksander Korĵenkov. Kaliningrado: Sezonoj, 2006. (Serio Scio; volumo 6)

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