NOTICE (22 February 2002):
On 21 February 2002 this site was set up at a new location:
http://www.autodidactproject.org
This Third Age URL will remain operational for an indefinite period
but will no longer be updated.
It is frozen as of 1 Feb. 2002.
Please visit the new site & sign the guest book there.
Thanks to all for your support.
"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT"
by Ralph Dumain
EXTERNAL LINKS TO RELATED WEB SITES
Independent Scholars, Writers, Self-Education
Dan Poynter - Para Publishing
Publications offer advice for aspiring writers
Autodidactic Press
Publications and information on lifelong learning, autodidaxy, credentialing
Autodidact.net: Your Free Learning Portal
The Autodidact's Journal (defunct)
Study Circles, History, Resources for Education
Study Circles Resource Center
Helping communities organize study circles to encourage democratic participation
in acting on the issues of the day
Something Has Gone Very Wrong: James Louwen's Lies My Teacher Told Me
Disciplined Minds Web Site
Jeff Schmidt:
"A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System
That Shapes Their Lives"
Haldeman-Julius Blue Books collection
The Bill French Center
An information center for the documentation of bookseller Bill French and the
University Place Bookshop, sponsored by The C.L.R. James Institute
Cultural Logic. Special Issue: Marxism and Education (vol. 4, no. 1, 2001)
Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Self-Knowledge
Thematically organized, includes famed writers and philosophers of western civilization
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
Philosophy for the masses, featuring Socrates Cafes and Philosophers Clubs
Bernard Roy & Cafe
Philo
Philosophy for the Masses, a growing international movement
Cafes Philo
Also on the Cafe Philo movement, in French, with brief English historical summary
The 6th International Conference on Philosophy
in Practice:
"Philosophy in Society". To be held in Scandinavia, Norway, Oslo, on the 24
- 27th of July 2001
Philosophy Now: A Magazine
of Ideas
Philosophy for the masses, with calendars of events internationally
TPM Online: The Philosophers'
Magazine on the Net
Philosophy for the masses, also from the UK, with articles, events, discussions,
links
Hermenaut: independent philosophical zine
Philosophy for AllPhilosophical Humor site (David Chalmers)
Unusual Scholarship
Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression
Black Freethinkers & Other Intellectuals
African Americans for Humanism
The world's first organization for African-American freethinkers and secular
humanists and their supporters
The Richard Wright Connection (The C.L.R. James Institute)
Richard Wright--Richard Hancuff's PageAnthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation
The Hubert Harrison
Center
The C.L.R. James Institute presents an information center for publications
and activities relating to West Indian-American "father of Harlem radicalism"
Hubert Henry Harrison: autodidact, soapbox orator, militant atheist, literary
critic, political organizer, also termed the "Black Socrates".
Book Hunting
Book Finder
Meta-search engine for book hunters, great for used and rare books
Alternative Press
New Pages
"News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers,
literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative
newsweeklies and more."
Sources on Topics Covered on this Site
Esperanto.Net
Introduction and guide to the world of Esperanto, the "international language",
also a favorite of autodidacts since 1887
HEINRICH HEINE's poem & web site ( in German)
The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself
The Surrealist Movement in the United States
Samuel R. Delaney as a semi-precious stone
Papers of Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) (MS 7168, National Library of Australia)
Marxist Educational Press / Nature, Society, and Thought
"Groto", a philosophical tale, in the Esperanto original
Ateismo: Bulteno de Ateista Tutmonda Esperanto-Organizo
The New Center for Pataphysics
Other Site Work by Ralph Dumain
Esperanto section (not yet operational), the Marxists Internet Archive
Esperanto section, Reform-Islam: Bonvenon al Reform-Islamo
Writings by Ralph Dumain on Other Sites
"Review of David Punter, The Romantic Unconscious: A Study in Narcissism and Patriarchy", H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, July, 1994.
"Retorts"
[letter to the editor], The Alembic, no. 2, Summer 1989, p.8.
(An embarrassing sample of my pre-1992 writing)
"Trockij Pravis! Memore pri la 50-a Datreveno de la Murdo de Leono Trockij" [in Esperanto], Sennaciulo, 61-a jaro, n-ro 9 (1023), septembro 1990, p. 79-80; represita en Internaciisto.
The C.L.R. James Institute--A New Model of Scholarship in the Social Division of Labor, 17 Jan. 1997.
An Introduction to Jeff Perry, 30 May 2001.
On C.L.R. James's 'On the Spiritual', 1994.
Mariners, Renegades, And Castaways: The Acid Test by Ralph Dumain. 31 August 1993, ed. 6 June 2001.
C.L.R. James, Intellectuals, Non-Identity, & the Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain. 20 April 1997.
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