"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT"
BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS
compiled by Ralph Dumain

INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN SOCIETY, CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY IN PROGRESS

Agre, Philip E. "Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society" [ms], Ethics and Information Technology 3(4), 2001, pp. 289-298.

Altamirano, Carlos; Sarlo, Beatriz. "The Autodidact and the Learning Machine", in: Sarmiento: Author of a Nation, ed. Tulio Halperín Donghi, Iván Jaksic, Gwen Kirkpatrick, Francine Masiello (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 156-68.

Altenbaugh, Richard J. Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. (Labor and Social Change)

Avrich, Paul. The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Baggini, Julian. "Self-Publish and Be Damned", The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 12, 2000.

Barrow, Clyde W. "Pedagogy, Politics, and Social Reform: The Philosophy of the Workers' Education Movement", Strategies, no. 2, 1989, pp. 45-66. [ISSN 1040-2136]

Basbanes, Nicholas A. A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: H. Holt, 1999.

Beck, Frank O. Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s Chicago. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2000.

Beiser, Frederick C. "A Romantic Education: The Concept of Bildung in Early German Romanticism," in: Philosophers on Education: Historical Perspectives, edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (London; New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 284-299.

Booth, Wayne. For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Bruford, Walter Horace. The German Tradition of Self-cultivation: Bildung from Humboldt to Thomas Mann. London; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

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Burnett, John; Vincent, David; Mayall, David; eds. The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography. New York: New York University Press, 1984, 1987. Volume I: 1790-1900. Volume II: 1900-1945.

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

Chapman, Rosemary. "Autodidacticism and the Desire for Culture", Nottingham French Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, Autumn 1992, pp. 84-101.

Cherry, Mike. On High Steel: The Education of an Ironworker. New York: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., 1974.

Chomsky, Noam. "The Case Against B.F. Skinner," The New York Review of Books, December 30, 1971.

Chomsky, Noam. "Philosophers and Public Philosophy," Ethics, vol. 79, no. 1, October 1968, pp. 1-9.

Chomsky, Noam. "Rationality/Science," Z Papers Special Issue, 1995.

Chomsky, Noam. "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," The New York Review of Books, February 23, 1967.

Cobb, William H. Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Cory, Herbert Ellsworth. The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers, A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis. New York: The Sunwise Turn, 1919.

Cotkin, George. Existential America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Craik, Edward Lillie. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Revised ed. London: George Bell, 1876 [orig. 1830].

Crane, Diana. Invisible Colleges: Diffusion of Knowledge in Scientific Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.

Damon, Matt; Affleck, Ben. Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay. With an introduction by Gus Van Sant. New York: Miramax Books: Hyperion, 1997. Or see Good Will Hunting Central.

D'Angelo, Edward. "The Ideological Nature of Teaching Philosophy to Children," Revolutionary World, vol. 26, 1978, pp. 58-59.

Davidson, Thomas. The Education of the Wage-earners; A Contribution Toward the Solution of the Educational Problem of Democracy, edited, with an introductory chapter, by Charles M. Bakewell. New York, B. Franklin, 1971. (Series title: Burt Franklin Research and Source Work Series; 772) (Selected Essays in History, Economics and Social Science; 281.)

Desmond, Adrian. "Artisan Resistance and Evolution in Britain, 1819-1848", Osiris, second series, vol. 3, 1987, pp. 77-110.

Ellenbogen, Glenn C., ed. Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Readings from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. See also Peter Tyrer, "Personality Disorder," British Journal of Psychiatry, 179 (2001), 81-84.

Ellis, Robert. "Conformity versus Creativity? An Open Debate" [in academic philosophy], The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 22, 2nd quarter 2003, pp. 46-47.

Ferrer, Francisco. The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School, translated by Joseph McCabe. London: Watts & Co., 1913. See more materials on Francisco Ferrer in the Anarchy Archives.

Fine, Gary Alan. Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Fink, Leon, et al, eds. Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, and Donald M. Reid. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. xii, 327 pp. See also Lloyd Kramer, below.

Fink, Leon. "'Intellectuals' versus 'Workers': Academic Requirements and the Creation of Labor History", in: In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 [The Working Class in American History]), pp. 201-235.

Fink, Leon. Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Finkielkraut, Alain. The Defeat of the Mind. Translation and introduction by Judith Friedlander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. (European Perspectives)

"Founder of Bibliopsychology" [Nikolai Rubakin], The Moscow News, 2002, no. 26.

Frijhoff, Willem. "Autodidaxies, XVIe-XIXe Siecles: Jalons pour la Construction d'un Object Historique" [Self-education in the 16th-19th centuries: indicators for the construction of a historical object], Histoire de l'Education [France] 1996, (70): 5-27.

Ganahl, Rainer. Reading Karl Marx. London: Book Works, 2001. See also the web site devoted to this project, Reading Karl Marx.

Gaylor, Annie Laurie, ed. Women Without Superstition: "No Gods—No Masters": The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, WI: Freedom From Religion Foundation, 1997.

Gettleman, Marvin E. Comparative International History of Left & Labor Education. 14 March 1995.

Gettleman, Marvin E. "The New York Workers School 1923-1944: Communist Education in American Society", in New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism, edited by Michael E. Brown, Randy Martin, Frank Rosengarten, and George Snedecker (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993), pp. 261-280.

Gettleman, Marvin E. "'No Varsity Teams': New York's Jefferson School of Social Science, 1943-1956", Science & Society, vol. 66, no.3, Fall 2002, pp. 336-359.

Gettleman, Marvin E. Project on the Comparative International History of Left Education. 1997. (Alternative URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/29/018.html)

Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982.

Gouldner, Alvin W. The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class: A Frame of Reference, Theses, Conjectures, Arguments, and an Historical Perspective on the Role of Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in the International Class Contest of the Modern Era. New York: Seabury Press, 1979. (Dark Side of the Dialectic; v. 2) See extracts: Alvin Gouldner on the New Class & the Culture of Critical Discourse.

Grafton, Anthony. The Footnote: A Curious History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Green, James. Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

Gross, Bertram. Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America. New York M. Evans, 1980.

Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982.

Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1993.

Gross, Ronald; Osterman, Paul; eds. Individualism: Man in Modern Society. New York: Laurel [Dell], 1971.

Gruber, Helmut. Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture 1919-1934. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Gunn, John W. E. Haldeman-Julius: The Man and His Work. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. (Little Blue Book; no. 678)

Habermas, Jürgen. "Heinrich Heine and the Role of the Intellectual in Germany", in: The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate, edited and translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, introduction by Richard Wolin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), pp. 71-99.

Hafner, Katie. "Web Sites Begin to Get Organized, on Their Own", The New York Times, January 18, 2001, pp. G1, G7.

Hailey, Kendall. The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter. New York: Delacorte Press, 1988. For reviews, see: Bill's Best Autodidact; Andrew Smallman, PSCS Newsletter.

Haldeman-Julius, E. The First Hundred Million. New York: Arno Press, 1974 [c1928].

Haldeman-Julius, E. The World of Haldeman-Julius, with a foreword by Harry Golden, compiled by Albert Mordell. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1960.

Haldeman-Julius, Marcet. What the Editor's Wife Is Thinking About. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. (Little Blue Book; no. 809)

Harvey, Joy. Almost a Man of Genius: Clémence Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Hecht, Jennifer Michael. Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. New York: Harper San Francisco, 2003.

Herder, Dale M. "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture", Journal of Popular Culture, vol. IV, no. 4, Spring 1971, pp. 881-891.

Herder, Dale M. "The Little Blue Books as Popular Culture: E. Haldeman-Julius' Methodology", in: New Dimensions in Popular Culture, ed. Russel B. Nye (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1972), pp. 31-42.

Herzog, Don. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Hill, Jason D. Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000.

Hobsbawm, E. J.; Scott, Joan Wallach. "Political Shoemakers", Past and Present, no. 89, Nov. 1980, pp. 86-114.

Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Knopf, 1963.

How to Study: A Guide for Students. Attributed to Harry K. Wells and dated by internal evidence. New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, 1954. Pamphlet, 16 pp.

Inkeles, Alex. Exploring Individual Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Jackson, H. J. Marginalia: Readers' Notes in Books, 1700-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Jacoby, Russell. The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999.

Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.

Kadi, Joanna. Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996.

Keegan, Bridget. "Lambs to the Slaughter: Leisure and Laboring-Class Poetry." Romanticism On the Net 27 (August 2002): 77 pars.

Keene, Judith. "'The Word Makes the Man': A Catalan Anarchist Autodidact in the Australian Bush", Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 47, no. 3, 2001, pp. 311-329.

Kelley, Alfred, trans., ed., intro. The German Worker: Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Kershaw, Angela. "Autodidacticism and Criminality in Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée and Edith Thomas's L'Homme Criminel", The Modern Language Review, vol. 96, pt. 3, July 2001, pp. 679-92.

Kett, Joseph F. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: From Self-Improvement to Adult Education in America, 1750-1990. Stanford University Press, 1994.

Kiernan, V.G. "Labour and the Literate in Nineteenth-Century Britain", chapter 7 of Poets, Politics and the People, ed. Harvey J. Kaye (London; New York: Verso, 1989), pp. 152-177.

Kornbluh, Joyce L. A New Deal for Workers' Education: The Workers' Service Program, 1933-1942. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Kramer, Lloyd. "Habermas, Foucault, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Intellectuals", in: Intellectuals and Public Life: Between Radicalism and Reform, edited by Leon Fink, Stephen T. Leonard, Donald M. Reid (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), chapter 2: pp. 29-50.

La Vopa, Anthony. "Conceiving a Public: Ideas and Society in 18th-century Europe," Journal of Modern History, 64 (1992): 79-116.

La Vopa, Anthony J. Grace, Talent, and Merit: Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

La Vopa, Anthony J. Prussian Schoolteachers: Profession and Office, 1763-1848. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Lansky, Aaron. Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. See also National Yiddish Book Center.

Laverty, Megan. "Kate Gordon Moore (1878-1963): A Precursor to Philosophy for Children," Thinking, vol. 18, no. 1, 2006, pp. 4-14.

Leder, Drew. The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Lenin, V. I. Book Review: N. A. Rubakin, Among Books (Vol. II. Nauka Publishers, Moscow, 1913. Second Edition). Published: Prosveshcheniye No. 4, April 1914. See: Lenin, Collected Works (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972), Volume 20, pp. 259-261. See also Lenin's contribution to Rubakin's volume: On Bolshevism.

Lepp, Ignace. The Art of Being an Intellectual. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Lilge, Frederic. "Lenin and the Politics of Education," Slavic Review, vol. 27, no. 2, June 1968, pp. 230-257.

Linkon, Sherry Lee, ed. Teaching Working Class. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Lipman, Matthew. Natasha: Vygotskian Dialogues. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

Lipman, Matthew; Sharp, Ann Magaret; eds. Growing up with Philosophy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.

Lipman, Matthew; Sharp, Ann Magaret; Oscanyan, Frederick S. Philosophy in the Classroom. 2nd. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980.

London, Steven H., et al, eds. The Re-education of the American Working Class, edited by Steven H. London, Elvira R. Tarr, and Joseph F. Wilson; foreword by Joseph S. Murphy. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (Contributions in Labor Studies; no. 31)

Lyons, Martyn. "The Autodidacts and Their Literary Culture: Working-Class Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century France", Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, Sept.-Dec. 1991, pp. 264-273.

Lyons, Martyn. "La Culture litteraire des travailleurs. Autobiographies ouvrieres dans l'Europe du XIXe siecle" [The Literary Culture of Workers. Worker Autobiographies in 19th-Century Europe], Annales [Paris, ISSN 0395-2649], 2001, 56, 4-5, July-Oct, 927-946.

Lyons, Martyn. Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xi, 208 pp.

Lyons, Martyn. The Reading Experience of Worker-Autobiographers in 19th-Century Europe. Paper presented to International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, 2000: Panel on The Social Practice of Reading & Writing. 32 pp.

Maidment, Brian, ed. The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain. Manchester: Carcanet, 1987.

Marples, Morris. Romantics at School. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1967.

Mattelart, Armand. The Invention of Communication. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Matthews, Gareth B. Philosophy and the Young Child. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.

Matthews, Gareth B. The Philosophy of Childhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

McCormack, A. Ross, introduction; Brammel, Libertas. "The Great Tribulation: Winnipeg's First General Strike", Labour / Le Travailleur [Canada], vol. 4, no. 4, 1979, pp. 187-209. Includes the text of the prophetic novel The Great Tribulation, written in 1902 under the nom de plume "Libertas Brammel".

Melnikova, Katya. "Enlightenment Ideology of the 19th Century and the Formation of the Attitude to Reading the Bible in a Contemporary Russian Village." Paper presented at the Fourth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism, April 2002.

Michael, John. Anxious Intellects : Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, And Enlightenment Values. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. See review by R. Dumain.

Mishler, Paul C. Raising Reds : The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

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

Onfray, Michel. Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. New York: Arcade Pub., distributed by Hackette Book Group, 2007.

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Phillips, Christopher. Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.

"Philosophy for Children," edited by Terrell Ward Bynum and Matthew Lipman, special issue of Metaphilosophy, vol. 7, no. 1, January 1976. (89 pp.)

Pierson, Stanley. Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Poynter, Dan; Bingham, Mindy; Stryker, Sandy, ed. Is There a Book Inside You?: How to Successfully Author a Book Alone or in Collaboration. Santa Barbara, CA: Para Publishing, 1985.

Priestman, Martin. Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; 37)

Priestman, Martin. "Temples and Mysteries in Romantic Infidel Writing." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002): 16 pars.

Pyenson, Lewis; Sheets-Pyenson, Susan. Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Radway, Janice A. A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month-Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Rancière, Jacques. "Democracy Means Equality" [interview], Radical Philosophy, no. 82, March/April 1997. See also Jacques Rancière - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ranciere, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. Translated with an introduction by Kristin Ross. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Rancière, Jacques. The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France. Translated by John Drury; introduction by Donald Reid. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Rée, Jonathan. Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.

Rée, Jonathan. "Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?", Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-7.

The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1992.

Robbins, Derek. The Rise of Independent Study: The Politics and the Philosophy of an Educational Innovation, 1970-87. Milton Keynes, England; Philadelphia, PA, USA: Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1988.

Rose, Jonathan. The Classics in the Slums, City Journal, Autumn 2004.

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

Rose, Jonathan. "Intellectuals Among the Masses: Or, What Was Leonard Bast Really Like?" Biblion, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 3-18.

Rose, Jonathan. "Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences", Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 53, no. 1., Jan.-Mar., 1992, pp. 47-70.

Rose, Mike. The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker. New York: Viking, 2004.

Author's web site: The Mind at Work

Interview with Tavis Smiley, 3 Sept. 2007

Rubin, Joan Shelley. The Making of Middlebrow Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich. Power and the Divison of Labor. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Ruff, Allen. "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Said, Edward. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.

Sassoon, Anne Showstack. "The People, Intellectuals and Specialised Knowledge", Boundary 2, vol. 14, no. 3, Spring 1986, pp. 137-168.

Scates, Bruce. '"Knowledge is Power": Radical Literary Culture and the Experience of Reading' [in Australia]. 29 Sept. 1998. Paper contributed to the Second History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) Conference, State Library of NSW, Sydney, 10-11 August 1996.

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

Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology. New York: Museum of American Folk Art; San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.

Senn, Alfred Erich. Nicholas Rubakin: A Life for Books. Newtonville, MA: Oriental Research Partners, 1977. (Russian biography series; no. 1)

Simsova, Sylva, comp. Nicholas Rubakin and Bibliopsychology, translated by M. Mackee and G. Peacock. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1968.

Sokal, Alan D; Bricmont, Jean. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science. New York: Picador USA, 1998.

Solomon, Joan. The Passion to Learn: An Inquiry into Autodidactism. RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

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

Starr, Mark. Labor Looks at Education. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946.

Starr, Mark. Lies and Hate in Education. London: Hogarth Press, 1929.

Starr, Mark. "Organized Labor and the Dewey Philosophy", in: John Dewey: Philosopher of Science and Freedom, A Symposium, edited by Sidney Hook (New York: The Dial Press, 1950), pp. 184-193.

Stebbins, Robert A. Amateurs: On the Margin between Work and Leisure. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1979.

Strausbaugh, John. "High Life & Mad English", New York Press, Volume 14, Issue 48, Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2001.

Tanis, Norman E.; Tanis, Lenore Anderson. Three Hundred Million Books: The Building of a Special Collection. Berkeley, CA: Tamalpais Press, 1974.

Teitelbaum, Kenneth. Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

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.

Traugott, Mark, ed. The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

The World Almanac Book of Buffs, Masters, Mavens and Uncommon Experts. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1980.

Walker, Gina Luria. "'Sewing in the Next World': Mary Hays as Dissenting Autodidact in the 1780s." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002): 45 pars.

Warburton, Nigel. "Philosophy and the Public", New British Philosophy: The Interviews, edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (London; New York: Routledge, 2002), Chapter 16, pp. 271-286.

Weeks, David; James, Jamie. Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness. New York: Villard Books, 1995.

White, Curtis. "The Middle Mind," Context, No. 9, Online Edition, 2001.

White, Curtis. The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. Quotations from the book. See also a negative review by Dan Schnieder on hackwriters.com. For other reviews, see The Complete Review. See also editorial and especially customer reviews on amazon.com.

Whitehead, Fred; Muhrer, Verle, eds. Freethought on the American Frontier. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1992.

PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY

Bricianer, Serge. Pannekoek and the Workers' Councils, intro. by John Gerber, trans. by Malachy Carroll. St. Louis, MO: Telos Press, 1978.

Burns, Tony. "Joseph Dietzgen and the History of Marxism", Science & Society, vol. 66, no. 2, Summer 2002, pp. 202-227.

Dietzgen, Joseph. Philosophical Essays. Translated by M. Beer and Th. Rothstein; with biographical sketch and introduction by Eugene Dietzgen, translated by Ernest Untermann; edited by Eugene Dietzgen and Joseph Dietzgen, Jr. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1917.

Dietzgen, Joseph. The Positive Outcome of Philosophy. Introduction by Dr. Anton Pannekoek; translated by Ernest Untermann; edited by Eugene Dietzgen and Joseph Dietzgen, Jr. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1906.

Easton, Loyd D. "Empiricism and Ethics in Dietzgen," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 1958, pp. 77-90.

Gambone, Larry. Cosmic Dialectics, The Libertarian Philosophy of Joseph Dietzgen. Montreal: Red Lion Press, 1996. 20 pp. [Joseph Dietzgen Page & link to Red Lion Press]

Macintyre, Stuart. A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Mehring, Franz. "Philosophy and Philosophizing" (1909), trans. Rubin Gotesky, Marxist Quarterly, April-June 1937, pp.293-297.

Nizan, Paul; Fittingoff, Paul, trans. The Watchdogs: Philosophers and the Established Order. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.

Osborne, Peter. "On the Jackson Trail" [Review of Proletarian Philosophers: Problems in Socialist Culture in Britain, 1900-1940 by Jonathan Ree], Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 30-32.

Rée, Jonathan. "Proletarian Philosophy: A Version of Pastoral?", Radical Philosophy, no. 44, Autumn 1986, pp. 3-7.

Starr, Mark. "La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen," Sennacieca Revuo, n-ro 94, 1966, p. 38-41. In Esperanto.

PHILOSOPHY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR
(this section moved to its own web page 17 January 2005)

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: SPECIAL PERSPECTIVES
(see also Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography,
Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography, & Philosophy & the Division of Labor, esp. Oizerman, Rée)

Baggini, Julian. "Discourse: Becoming a Philosopher", The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 13, Winter 2001, pp. 28-29.

Baggini, Julian. “What Philosophers Are Really Like,” The Philosophers' Magazine.

Bontempo, Charles J.; Odell, S. Jack; eds. The Owl of Minerva: Philosophers on Philosophy. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. See esp. Herbert Marcuse, "The Relevance of Reality," pp. 231-244. See also Adam Schaff, "What Philosophers Do," pp. 179-189.

Cevallos Estarellas, Pablo. "Teaching Philosophy vs Teaching To Philosophise," Philosophy Now, Issue 63, September/October 2007, pp. 12-15.

Chrucky, Andrew. "Philosophical Influence: Statistically Determined."

Chrucky, Andrew. Philosophy of __________; __________ of Philosophers.

Collins, Randall. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Cotkin, George. "Middle-Ground Pragmatists: The Popularization of Philosophy in American Culture," Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 55, no. 2, April 1994, 283-302.

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Radin, Paul. Letters to Edward Sapir, Jan. 27, 1914 & Feb. 19, 1916, with headnote by Grant Arndt, Burckhardtian Culture History and the "Durkheim-Mauss Bug" in Paul Radin’s Letters to Edward Sapir [HAN 25: 1998#1]. Against Franz Boas' collectivist assumptions, affirming the importance of the individual in ethnology.

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THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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The Hubert Harrison Center. The C.L.R. James Institute presents an information center for publications and activities relating to the hottest new development in Black Studies, the scholarly resurrection of West Indian-American "father of Harlem radicalism" Hubert Henry Harrison, autodidact, soap box orator, militant atheist, literary critic, political organizer, also termed the "Black Socrates".

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 "New York City Bookshops in the 1930s and 1940s: The Recollections of Walter Goldwater" [interview], DLB Yearbook, 1993, pp. 139-172.

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Yeldell, Jason Scott. A Call to Sanity. 2nd ed. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006. See also author's web site A Call to Sanity.