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!

• Home page redesigned, navigation buttons added
• Site map redesigned, navigation buttons added
• Links page updated

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

• "The Philosopher's Mission" by Paul Nizan

10 September 2001

• Irony, Humor, & Cynicism Study Guide
• Cynicism & Conformity, by Max Horkheimer
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

8 September 2001

• Andre Breton Out of His Element, by Edwin Denby
• "Negativity" by Henri Wald
• "The Concept of Critique in Social Science" by Mihailo Markovic

6 September 2001

• "Ideal Superstructures" by Derek Sayer
• "Ideology" by Raymond Williams

4 September 2001

• Concepts of Ideology (1):
  On the history of the term from Destutt de Tracy to Marx, by Arne Naess
  
• Concepts of Ideology (2):
  Definitions of the term "ideology" today, by Arne Naess

27 August 2001

• Ideology: My Selected Bibliography
• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

26 August 2001
NEW FEATURE: STUDY GUIDES

• Ideology Study Guide
• Ideology: Points to Ponder
• Ideology: Definitions & Approaches (Terry Eagleton's list)
• The German Ideology After 150 Years
  

23 August 2001

• Bibliography: Ideology by David McLellan
• "Ideology" by Jorge Larrain
• Jeff Schmidt on Ideology and Professionals
• Quotable Quotes from The German Ideology by Marx & Engels

15 August 2001

• A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth
• "Cave" by Endre Toth (emendation)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

2 August 2001

• The Martian Chronicles & Our Subjective Desires

30 July 2001

• "When God Was a Woman", quote by Bob Black
• Anthony Braxton: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms,
  Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Links page updated

9 July 2001

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms,
  Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

30 June 2001

• For Rene Menil, Caribbean Surrealist-Philosopher (Review)
• What Dreams May Come (Review)
• An Enigmatic Historical Moment in Fiction: Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (Book Review)

21 June 2001

This site now contains more than 2 megabytes of material.

• Jeff Schmidt on Amateur & Professional Shop Talk

18 June 2001

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

13 June 2001

• Duke Ellington Communicates Beyond Category
• Duke Ellington: "We, Too, Sing 'America'"

10 June 2001

• "The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846"
  by Dorothy B. Porter, parts one and two
• Ralph Ellison On the Hidden Political Meaning of Cultural Symbolism
• Links page updated

3 June 2001

• Education and the Autodidact by Pierre Bourdieu
• Romare Bearden on Black American Culture vs. the European Avante-Garde
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

2 June 2001

• Noam Chomsky on Expertise & Credentials
  
• Links page reorganized & updated

22 May 2001

• A Memorial Tribute to Bill French
• Finding Aid: University Place Book Shop Papers, 1968-1988

20 May 2000

• Reorganized site map & navigation bars operational
  
• Karl Marx vs. Cynical Reason: On Suppositions of Naked Self-Interest
• New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater
  (interview): Parts 1, 2, 3

17 May 2001

• Links page updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

16 May 2001

• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold
• AUDIENCE/READING PUBLIC, PROFESSIONALIZATION/SPECIALIZATION
  OF WRITERS, LITERARY FORMS, DIVISION OF LABOR: BIBLIOGRAPHY (revised)

1 May 2001
Celebrate May Day, the international workers' holiday!

• Friedrich Engels on the American Mentality

24 April 2001

• NEW FEATURE: Alphabetical (by file name) site index

23 April 2001

• "A Note on My Dialectic" by Jack Lindsay

• Convergence on The Prisoner: From Leon Trotsky to George Orwell and Beyond by Ralph Dumain

• The Origins of Jack Lindsay's Contributions to British Marxist Thought by Joel R. Brouwer

• Can't Stop My Leg by Ralph Dumain
• What Improvising Musicians Do by William Hooker

13 March 2001

• NEW FEATURE: Coming Attractions on This Site
• Links page updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

• The Theory & Practice of John Coltrane
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

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

• History of the Professional Writer & Reading Public / Audiences
  ---- The Romantic Era / The Working Class Reader / Literary Form / Division of Labor (rev.)
• Updated: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional, & Related Topics:
  A Bibliography in Progress

• "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder

• "People of Interest", biographical data added to site map

• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography (rev.)
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Links page updated

• Hegel on Education: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Updated: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional, & Related Topics:
  A Bibliography in Progress

• Stripes / Strioj, poem by Ralph Dumain

• Black History Month 2001: On Intellectual Infrastructures & Independent Learning

• External Links page updated
• Updated: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional, & Related Topics:
  A Bibliography in Progress

• 100 Years of C.L.R. James

• Inside 'The Black Insider', Or, War and Literature: The Writing of Dambudzo Marechera
• C.L.R. James on West Indian Writers vs. T.S. Eliot & Jean-Paul Sartre: the New World & the Old
• Leon Trotsky on the Culture of Fascism
• "Renascence", a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

• On Job's Dilemma: God's Injustice (from the play J.B. by Archibald Macleish)
• Woody Guthrie Finds His Voice

• "Little Lamb, God Bless Thee!": Experiencing Blake's Lamb

• "System and History in Philosophy: A Review" of a book by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
• William Blake's Birthday Commemoration: Innocence Must Be Organized!
  (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827)

• "Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari, a short story about Galileo translated from Esperanto:
  Parts One, Two, Three
• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

• Book Review: Between Tides by V.Y. Mudimbe

• Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?

• The Problem of the Ideal (Extracts) by David Dubrovsky

• "Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?" by Jonathan Ree,
  Parts One and Two
• "On the Jackson Trail" by Peter Osborne
  [Review of Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940 by Jonathan Ree.]
• V.I. Lenin: Their Abstraction & Ours

• C.L.R. JAMES: A REVOLUTIONARY VISION FOR THE 20TH CENTURY
  by Anna Grimshaw, Parts One, Two, Three

• George Bernard Shaw on the Artist-philosopher
• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress (rev.)

• George W. Stocking, Jr. on the Autodidact & Intellectual Traditions
• Against Irrationalism and Particularism, Or, The Fake Issue of "Western Mathematics"
• "Sparking My Pain (poem against ghettocentrism)" by Ralph Dumain
• "No E-Mail", poem by Ralph Dumain

• "To a Composer", poem by Ralph Dumain

• "Your Elegance", poem by Ralph Dumain
• Georg Lukacs on Nazism & Irrationalism: The Unity of Cynicism & Credulity

• George Bernard Shaw on Conviction & Style

• "Albert Ayler", a poem by Ralph Dumain

• C.L.R. James on the Secret of Hegel's Dialectic
• African Philosophy, Politics, and the Division of Labor
• Touki Bouki: Film Review
• Central Station: Film Review

• "The Temptation of Kul", by John I. Francis, a short story translated from Esperanto

• "Spinoza, the First Secular Jew?" by Yirmiyahu Yovel
• Why Koshchei the Deathless Knows Neither Love nor Pride

• Cynthia Ozick on "Envy; Or, Yiddish In America"

• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress (rev.)
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Marx & the Individual Reconsidered (rev.)

• Review of Peter Sloterdijk's Critique of Cynical Reason, by Michael Miley

• Marx & Engels Take an IQ Test: Cartoon
• "Theses Against Occultism" by Theodor W. Adorno

• On Man's Cowardice: Don Juan Debates the Devil
  from George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman

• "The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought: Undoing Substantial Connection"
  by Sheila Delaney: Parts one, two, three

• "What Bird Am I?", poem by Ralph Dumain
• "Cascades in Silence", poem by Ralph Dumain
• "On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors'", poem by Ralph Dumain
• "The Contemporary Attack on Science" by Andras Gedo:
  Parts one and two

• "God or Labor: The Two Camps" by M. Bakunin

• What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains

• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography

• New Feature: Indexed, descriptive sitemap

• "Doubt and Atheism" by Evlogi Dankov

• John Coltrane on Black Music and Affirmative Philosophy

• Cultural Impasse & the Changing Forms of Ideality
• Christopher Caudwell: Selected Bibliography

• Hyenas: Film Review
• Bulworth: Film Review
• Henry Brokmeyer: Fictional Portrayal of a St. Louis Hegelian
• Yevgeny Zamyatin on Revolution, Entropy, Dogma and Heresy

• Anthony Braxton: Selected Bibliography
• "Truth", poem by Marketa Prochazkova, from Czech via Esperanto
• Links page updated

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  
• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress (rev.)
  

• Book review: The Universe and Dr. Einstein [On science popularization run amok]

• Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!

• "Groto" by Endre Toth, a short story translated from the Esperanto original
• The Philosophy of Humor and the Humor of Philosophy

• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress

• Individual Identity, Historical Meaning, and the Unknown Autodidact

• Cornel West's Evasion of Philosophy, Or, Richard Wright's Revenge
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  

• The Autodidact Project: Intellectual Life in Society, Conventional and Unconventional,
  & Related Topics: A Bibliography in Progress
• Christopher Lasch's The Minimal Self: A Portrait of Psychological Terrorism
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  
• The American Hegelians: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (rev.)
  
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
  

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (rev. 6/13/2000)
• BIBLIOGRAPHIES under construction (grouped on one page)
  
• Hegel on Education: Selected Bibliography
• AUDIENCE/READING PUBLIC, PROFESSIONALIZATION/SPECIALIZATION
  OF WRITERS, LITERARY FORMS, DIVISION OF LABOR: BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Irony in Philosophy, Romanticism, & Criticism: Selected Bibliography

• William Blake on the Dialectical Moment of Renewal

• Albert Einstein on the Secret of Western Science
• Beyond Deduction and Induction: Towards Perfect Truth According to Edgar Allen Poe
• The Magnetized Moment: The Innermost Secret of Human Development
  (from the play Equus)
  

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (5/22/2000, rev. 6/7/2000)
  
• Failure to Create: Wisdom from The Outer Limits (6/7/2000)

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