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Reorganized 1 June 2001
Last updated 22 October 2023
Previously updated 29 October 2021
“THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT”
by Ralph Dumain
Book
Finder
Meta-search engine for book hunters, great for used and rare books
Scribd
Upload & download free
books & other documents
Persée
: Portail de revues en sciences humaines et sociales
Fench-based site,
includes English-language with other downloadable articles
LibraryThing
"Catalog your books online"
goodreads (has absorbed
Shelfari)
"Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia"
BookCrossing
"The World's Biggest Free Book Club - Catch and Release Used Books"
BookMooch
"exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter"
Autodidacticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category:Autodidacts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National
Coalition of Independent Scholars
US umbrella organization for independent
scholars, includes extensive resources for writers
Autodidactic Press
Publications
and information on lifelong learning, autodidaxy, credentialing
Technophilia: Get a free college education online (lifehacker)
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"
AXE - Special Collections - E. Haldeman-Julius (Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University, Kansas) Note links.
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)
Study
Circles Resource Center (defunct)
Helping communities organize study circles to
encourage democratic participation in acting on the issues of the day
The
Galilean Library (defunct)
Community-driven learning resource
History of Literacy web site (defunct)
Critical Thinking
(Information also on
Washington Philosophy Circle links page,
but see comprehensive web page
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking: A Guide)
Critical Thinking On The Web (Tim van Gelder)
Foundation for Critical Thinking
Resources for Independent Thinking
PACTISS.org - Philosophers and Critical Thinkers in Senior Schools
How to Think and Evaluate Information: A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking by Greg R. Haskins (2006)
Butterflies and Wheels: Fighting Fashionable Nonsense
Alan Sokal Archive of the "Social Text Affair"
Informal Logic (Journal). Reasoning and Argumentation in
Theory and Practice.
New URL and old
URL inactive.
See archive.org for 2017,
#4; journal
archive to 2017, #1.
Philosophy
(See also Washington Philosophy Circle links page
for broader range of links)
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
Dictionary
of the History of Ideas
An important reference source, now online
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 & Café Philo
Philosophy for the Masses, a growing international movement
Philos
Philosophy Cafes: in brief
The Café Philo movement, in English
Philos:
Cafés Philo
The French Cafés Philo movement, in French,
with links to Cafés Philo in various countries
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)
Les philosophes n'ont fait qu'interpréter le monde... [in French]
Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression
Reinhold Aman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Best of Maledicta, edited by Reinhold Aman
The University of Openess (UoWiki) [defunct]
Improbable research [defunct]
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 PageThe
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".
Lucy Parsons, black American anarchist. See entry in Freethinkers in Texas (Word file), which mentions atheism. See also biography on the IWW site.
Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation
New
Pages
"News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent
publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record
labels, alternative newsweeklies and more."
Sanford
Berman Website
Former Head Cataloger for the Hennepin County Library
(HCL) system, Minnesota; pioneer of alternative cataloging progressive librarianship
The Distributed Library Project
GramTrans
Covers an uncustomary assortment of languages, including Esperanto
Scribnia
Reviewing & rating bloggers
ZineWiki - the history and culture of zines, independent media and the small press
The Marginalian (formerly Brain pickings) by Maria Popova
Esperanto.Net
Introduction and guide to the world of Esperanto, the "international language",
also a favorite of autodidacts since 1887
The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself
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
Playing With Technology in History conference, April 29-30, 2010, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
Esperanto section (not administered by me), the Marxists Internet Archive
Esperanto
section, Reform-Islam: Bonvenon
al Reform-Islamo
(but see other people's translations at Novajxoj
Maldekstraj Sxuaj)
Groups.io
Marxist Philosophy (28 October 2019 - )
Washington Philosophy Circle (28 October 2019 - )
Yahoo groups are shut down as of 28 October 2019
Black Freethought discussion group (created 2009.02.06) on "Atheist Nexus" networking site
Ralph Dumain @ Ipernity (Esperanto)
Reason & Society Blog (on Blogger)
Ĝirafo (on Blogger) Esperanto-blogo
See my book reviews on amazon.com (beginning 19 August 2005).
Review of Zsolt Czigányik, Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature, Hungarian Cultural Studies, Volume 16 (2023)
Intellect as Equipment: Interview with Ralph Dumain, National Museum of Language, July 28, 2016
Martin Gardner Testimonials: Testimonial 55: Ralph Dumain
“Homage to Rod Serling, a Great American” (21 March 2012)
“Secularism, science and the Right” [Review: Meera Nanda, The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva] (02-15 December 2006)
Letter: Trotskyism and Esperanto, Revolutionary History, Vol. 7, No. 4
"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)
Maria kaj la Grupo recenzas Ralph Dumain [in Esperanto. Also on this site: Review (Recenzo): Emba, "Maria kaj la Grupo"]
Hegelian Marxism discussion, Ralph Dumain et al, on Hegel-by-Hypertext.
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.
Ralph Dumain's Farewell Message to Jim Murray. 21 August 2003.
Jim Murray Memorial Address. Written 7 November 2003, delivered 8 November 2003.
Soundcloud (original & other recordings), e.g.
2019 July 27: Ralph Dumain: Studies in a Dying Culture: Love & Intellect (video @ YouTube)
Esperanto: One
of the World’s Best Underutilized Ideas and Its Contributions to World
Culture
(National Museum of Language as part of the Amelia Murdoch Speaker Series on
May 10, 2014 in College Park, MD)
by James Ryan and Ralph Dumain
(video @ YouTube, 61:12 min)
Esperanto: One of the World’s Best
Underutilized Ideas Part 2
(Question and Answer period)
(video @ YouTube, 55:14 min)
See also event announcement (with these 2 videos embedded) below
Ralph Dumain discusses the classic novel Voyage to Kazohinia (video @ YouTube)
Discussing Voyage to Kazohinia--June 6 book launch (video @ YouTube)
Vimeo (videos)
Arkivo de 3ZZZ Radio en Esperanto: elsendo de la 16a de majo 2011 (Dumain: 45:50 - 50:20 min.)
“Marking
the Centennial of Esperanto Creator’s Visit” by Art Silverman,
“All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, Tuesday 25 May 2010,
5:55 pm EDT
Live Interview with Ralph Dumain on "Living Room" (on C.L.R. James, 21 January 2004, with sound file)
“Studies in a Dying Culture” Internet radio program (5/10/10 - ) (guide on this site)
Studies in a Dying Culture (permanent program @ Think Twice Radio)
Flatness and Depth in Life and Thought, Ralph Dumain & Fred Mohr interviewed by Richard Wicka, 10 May 2010, for ThinkTwiceRadio (see abstract). First of ongoing podcast program.
Ralph Dumain interviewed by Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006 (topics: this web site, poetry)
"As
Long as You Are Still Breathing": Five Minutes with Ralph Dumain (video)
(Part One: Being Disappointed; Part Two: Old Edna)
American Society for Information Science (ASIS) , Special Interest Group for the Arts and Humanities (SIG/AH)
On the 48th Annual Meeting, Research in Word Processing Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 7, October 1985, pp. 12-13
On the SIG/AH Newsletter, Research in Word Processing Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 8, November 1984, p. 1
Adam Whybray quotes R. Dumain at MUBI: Hyenas (1 May 2017)
Esperanto, the ‘Worldwide Yiddish’ (The Schmooze) by Gary Shapiro, The Forward, December 21, 2010
Esperanto: One of the World’s Best Underutilized Ideas and Its Contributions to World Culture (event announcement, see 2 videos above)
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Previously updated 29 October 2021
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