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

National Coalition of Independent Scholars
US umbrella organization for independent scholars, includes extensive resources for writers

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

The Value of Knowledge: a Miniature Library of Philosophy
Andy Blunden's unique guide to the development of modern philosophy and its relation to society and the sciences

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 All
Philosophy for the masses, a British organization

Philosophical 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 Infidel Guy

The Richard Wright Connection (The C.L.R. James Institute)

Richard Wright--Richard Hancuff's Page

Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation

The C.L.R. James Institute

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 Information

Samuel R. Delaney as a semi-precious stone

QBR: The Black Book Review

Blake Digital Text Project

Papers of Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) (MS 7168, National Library of Australia)

The Albert Einstein Archives

Bakunin Archives

Bakunin's God and the State

Marxist Educational Press / Nature, Society, and Thought

"Groto", a philosophical tale, in the Esperanto original

Ateismo: Bulteno de Ateista Tutmonda Esperanto-Organizo

American Visionary Art Museum

The New Center for Pataphysics

Other Site Work by Ralph Dumain

The C.L.R. James Institute

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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