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"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT"
by Ralph Dumain

SITE MAP:

ESSAYS, COMMENTARIES, REVIEWS:

Researching the Autodidact as a Concept (1) (2/12/2000)
Hegel & Me (2/17/2000)
E.P. Thompson's Universe of Knowledge (rough draft) (2/20/2000)
Science fiction writer Samuel R. Delaney (2/8/2000)
Antonio Gramsci, Organic Intellectuals, and the Division of Labor (2/10/2000)
Review of Ronald Gross' The Independent Scholar's Handbook (2/16/2000)
Lest We Forget--The Hidden History of the African-American Autodidact:
A Belated Tribute to Black History Month (03/01/2000)

ON THE OCCASION OF KARL MARX'S BIRTHDAY, May 5, 2000
The Unknown Karl Marx
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: Militant Modernism at the Apex (5/21/2000)
Christopher Lasch's The Minimal Self: A Portrait of Psychological Terrorism (6/16/2000)
Cornel West's Evasion of Philosophy, Or, Richard Wright's Revenge (6/21/2000)
Individual Identity, Historical Meaning, and the Unknown Autodidact (6/22/2000)
The Philosophy of Humor and the Humor of Philosophy (6/27/2000)
Richard Wright's White Man, Listen! (6/29/2000)
Henry Brokmeyer: Fictional Portrayal of a St. Louis Hegelian (7/29/2000)
Cultural Impasse & the Changing Forms of Ideality (8/1/2000)
African Philosophy, Politics, and the Division of Labor (9/11/2000)
Against Irrationalism and Particularism, Or, The Fake Issue of "Western Mathematics" (9/22/2000)
Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope? (11/3/2000)
Book Review: Between Tides by V.Y. Mudimbe (11/4/2000)
"System and History in Philosophy: A Review" of a book by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak (11/25/2000)
"Little Lamb, God Bless Thee!": Experiencing Blake's Lamb (12/18/2000)
Inside 'The Black Insider', Or, War and Literature: The Writing of Dambudzo Marechera (12/25/2000)
100 Years of C.L.R. James (4 January 2001--James's 100th birthday)
Black History Month 2001: On Intellectual Infrastructures & Independent Learning (1/26/2001)
A Personal Tribute to Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) (3/7/2001)
The Theory & Practice of John Coltrane (3/11/2001)
Can't Stop My Leg (4/5/2001)
Convergence on The Prisoner: From Leon Trotsky to George Orwell and Beyond (4/11/2001)
A Memorial Tribute to Bill French (5/22/2001, rev. 10/10/2001, 10/16/2001, 10/18/2001, 12/1/2001)
For Rene Menil, Caribbean Surrealist-Philosopher (Review) (6/30/2001)
An Enigmatic Historical Moment in Fiction: Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (Book Review) (6/30/2001)
The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires (8/2/2001)
A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth (8/15/2001)
The German Ideology After 150 Years (8/26/2001)
Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) (10/9/2001, rev. 10/18/2001)
Review of Bonnie Bilyeu Gordon, Songs from Unsung Worlds: Science in Poetry (10/11/2001)
Some Comments on The Prisoner (10/22/2001)
Ishmael Reed: Literary Ambulance Chaser? (10/22/2001)
William Blake's "The Smile": Commentary by Ralph Dumain (11/19/2001)
The Traditional Canon vs. Multiculturalism in the Literary Profession: A Sterile Debate (1/7/2002, rev. 1/10/2002)

ORIGINAL FILM REVIEWS
APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY: CONFRONTING POPULAR CULTURE
(new feature beginning 29 July 2000)

Bulworth: Revolution Hollywood Style (7/29/2000)
Central Station (9/11/2000)
Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambety (7/29/2000)
Touki Bouki by Djibril Diop Mambety (9/11/2000)
What Dreams May Come (6/30/2001)
Sexism as an Issue in Culture and Art: The Case of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (10/12/2001)
Groundhog Day: The Problem of Consciousness (11/30/2001)

ORIGINAL POETRY (begun 3/8/2000)

April is National Poetry Month

Analytical Philosophy: Haiku
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Homebody without a Home (for Rita Dove)
Countdown
I Adorno Unbound (5/2/2000)
On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors' (8/18/2000)
Cascades in Silence (8/18/2000)
What Bird Am I? (8/18/2000)
Albert Ayler (9/12/2000)
Your Elegance (9/15/2000)
To a Composer (9/18/2000)
Sparking My Pain (poem against ghettocentrism) (9/22/2000)
No E-Mail (9/22/2000)
"Stripes" / "Strioj" (2/1/2001)
Upon the First Snow-Storm of the Season:
Blake & Coltrane in Esperanto
(Esperanto original & English translation) (9/23/2001)
Alien Intercourse (1/9/2002)
Two Artists Discuss Their Craft (1/9/2002)
The Visionary's Diary (1/10/2002)

TRANSLATIONS FROM ESPERANTO BY RALPH DUMAIN
(new feature beginning 27 June 2000)

"Cave" by Endre Toth, a philosophical tale (6/27/2000, rev. 8/15/2001)
"Truth" by Marketa Prochazkova, a Czech poem (7/25/2000)
"Doubt and Atheism" by Evlogi Dankov (8/3/2000)
"The Temptation of Kul" by John I. Francis, a tale of absolutisms in conflict (9/9/2000)
"Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari, a short story about Galileo:
Parts One, Two, Three (11/24/2000)
"Stripes" / "Strioj" by Ralph Dumain (2/1/2001)
Upon the First Snow-Storm of the Season: Blake & Coltrane in Esperanto
by Ralph Dumain (9/23/2001)

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