• Researching the Autodidact as a Concept (1) (2/12/2000)
  
• Hegel & Me (2/17/2000, rev. 3/8/2006)
• Why E.P. Thompson is My Hero (E.P. Thompson's Universe of Knowledge) [rough draft] (2/20/2000)
  
• Science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (2/8/2000, rev. 3/24/2002)
  
• 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) (1/4/2001, rev. 6/7/2003)
• 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, rev. 5/17/2003, 6/1/2003)
• A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth (8/15/2001)
• The German Ideology After 150 Years (8/26/2001)
• Ideology: Points to Ponder (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)
• Book Review: Intellectuals and Public Life (4/30/2002)
  • Addendum on Heine, Habermas, et al (8/13/2005)
• Book Review (Draft): Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley (5/1/2002)
• Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity (5/6/2002)
• Richard Wright: In a Class by Himself [review of Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley] (7/28/2002)
• How to Integrate Philosophy and Everyday Life: To Think Philosophically in Life, Or Reproduce the Fragmentation of Knowledge? (9/30/2002)
• Philosophy & Everyday Life: Prologue to Discussion (10/14/2002)
• Review of Ronald Gross' The Independent Scholar's Handbook (2nd ed.) (2/12/2003)
• 'Anthony Braxton: The Third Millennial Interview with Mike Heffley':
  Extracts, with Commentary by Ralph Dumain (2/28/2003)
• FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist" (3/4/2003)
• Soviet Historiography of Philosophy: Review Essay (3/5/2003)
• Einstein Revisited (3/13/2003)
• Albert Einstein and Black Americans (3/27/2003, updated 8/10/2005)
• Nina Simone: A Personal Tribute (4/23/2003)
• The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary (7/5/2003)
• Principles of the Theory of Historical Process in Philosophy by T.I Oizerman & A.S. Bogomolov, review (11/2/2003)
• Problems of the History of Philosophy by Theodore Oizerman, review (11/14/2003)
• Critique of Dialectic of Enlightenment (11/18/2003)
• Max Horkheimer's Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism (11/19/2003)
• Heidegger's Jargon (11/19/2003)
• On Goldmann, Lukacs, Heidegger, and Adorno (11/19/2003)
• 2003 Reading Review (11/19/2003)
• Adorno contra Husserl (11/20/2003)
• Marxism & Totality & Gramsci & Della Volpe (11/20/2003)
• Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution (11/21/2003)
• Harry Wells on the History of Logic (11/24/2003)
• C.L.R. James and American Culture: Addendum (11/26/2003)
• Adorno & the Dualities (11/27/2003)
• Metacritique Critiqued (11/30/2003)
• December Diary 2003 (12/3/2003)
• Hegel, Marx, Goldner, C.L.R. James, Enlightenment & the Philosophical Dichotomies (12/6/2003)
• Remembering the Past and Forgetting Yourself, Or, Why Oprah Is Not an Abolitionist (12/8/2003)
• December Diary 2003: 2nd entry (12/9/2003)
• Intellectual Traditions, Alienation, and the Integration of Knowledge (12/13/2003)
• December Diary 2003: 3nd entry (12/22/2003)
• Wisdom and Abstract Thought (12/24/2003)
• Professional and Popular Philosophy: Online Debates (12/27/2003)
• Blake & Ginsberg & Then & Now (1/10/2004)
• William Blake in the Universe of Knowledge: Philosophy, Genres, & Critical Method (1/10/2004)
• Christopher Hampton's Radical Blake (1/11/2004)
• The Reactionary Philosophy, Ambiguous Aesthetics, and Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse (1/22/2004)
• "William Blake and Quantum Mechanics—NOT! Blakes for Our Time?" (1/25/2004)
• The Jazz Avant-Garde, Mysticism & Society: Meaning, Method & the Young Hegelians (2/3/2004)
• Surrationally Yours (2/20/2004)
• The Philosophy and Information Professions: SIG/AH Program, 50th ASIS Annual Meeting, Boston, 1987 (2/22/2004)
• Ishmael Reed, William Blake, and the '60s According to Shamoon Zamir (2/25/2004)
• New Year's Resolution: Exploring Philosophical Cultures (December 2003 - January 2004) (2/29/2004)
• Commemorating International Women’s Day: Women on the Frontlines of Popular Enlightenment (3/8/2004)
• We Real Kitsch: bell hooks on the Black Male (book review) (4/21/2004)
• Anxious Intellects: From Contradiction to Complacency (book review) (5/1/2004)
• Enlightenment Blackout (7/21/2004)
• New York Hurt Me, New York Healed Me (7/21/2004)
• Reactionary Philosophy and Ambiguous Aesthetics in the Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse—A Review Essay [PDF file] (8/10/2004)
• Springtime for Hitler: Irony Lost-and-Found (review) (8/22/2004)
• Metacritique, Philosophy, & the Logic of the Intellectual Marketplace (10/23/2004)
• Review: Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew (2/11/2005)
• Philosophy as Autobiography: Alternatives to Subjectivism (2/12/2005)
• The Ins and Outs of Lloyd’s Left Out (3/19/2005)
• Einstein Gone 50 Years (4/18/2005)
• Originality Blues: Tales of the ‘70s (4/20/2005)
• The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes (4/20/2005)
• Originality, Cultural Capital, and Class Distinction (4/24/2005)
• Solitude: Vignettes (5/1/2005)
• Cultural Criticism and the Social Division of Labor (5/2/2005)
• Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy (review of J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West) (5/23/2005)
• On Unreflective Reflexivity (6/5/2005)
• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary (6/27/2005)
• Eastern & Western Philosophy: Unpublished Letter to the Editor [rejoinder to 'The Great Divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad] (5/1/2006)
• Alice in Washington (theater review) (5/17/2006)
• Maurice Cornforth on Partisanship and Objectivity (6/12/2006)
• Dialectics Bout: Richard Norman vs. Sean Sayers (book review) (6/19/2006)
• "Philosophical Portrait of a Dying Civilization" (1988) (7/10/2006)
  • Abstract
  • Full paper
• Screed on the Politics of Utopianism (8/1/2006)
• The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to Nietzsche: A Sketch (8/3/2006)
• On “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions (8/15/2006)
• Consciousness and Society: A Review (10/8/06)
• Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed (10/8/06)
• Outsider Art & Identity Politics: A Dialogue on the Ideology of Politically Correct Art (10/9/06)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. & G.W.F. Hegel (10/16/06)
• Dialectic is Cool (10/16/06)
• Graham Priest, Paraconsistent Logic, and Philosophy, Or, Logic and Reality (2/08/07)
• Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit on Contradiction (2/08/07)
• Review of Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo (5/15/07)
• Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality (5/18/07)
• James Baldwin Revisited (1): Prolegomena (5/22/07)
• Revisiting Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (5/31/07)
• James Baldwin Revisited (2): Go Tell It on the Mountain (6/5/07)
• Notes for Discussion of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (27 April 2005) (10/6/07)
• Note on the Poznan School (10/21/07)
• Million Man March satirical flyer (Oct. 1995) (10/21/07)
• William Blake’s Manuscript Lyrics: Discussion in Commemoration of Blake’s 250th Birthday (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827), November 2007 (10/24/07)
• John Stuart Mill & the Dualities: Bentham & Coleridge (3/2/08)
• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion (3/31/08)

• Bulworth: Revolution Hollywood Style (7/29/2000)
• Central Station (9/11/2000)
• Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambety (7/29/2000, addendum 1/16/2003)
• 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)
• ‘Dead Man’, A Film by Jim Jarmusch: Running Commentary 15 April 1997 - 30 June 1997 (1/15/2003)
• Dead Man, Dead Criticism (2/24/2003)
• Alien Resurrection in the Ghetto (5/21/2003)
• Collateral, or, The Philosophical Hit Man (8/14/2004)

• 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) with sound files (6/10/2006)
  
• Cascades in Silence (8/18/2000)
  
• What Bird Am I? (8/18/2000) with sound file (6/10/2006)
  
• 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)
• The Striving (11/24/2003)
• The Poet Looks Out on P Street in Late December (11/24/2003)
• What It Is (11/24/2003)
• What It Was Like (8/9/2004)
• Divorce Court (8/9/2004)
• The Root (8/9/2004)
• Shopping Mall Blues (12/19/2004)
• 9-1-1 Haiku (11/21/2005)
• Where Zeno Peed (Haiku) (3/4/2006)
• Haiku for Richard Wright (3/4/2006)
• Pity the Poor Immigrant (for Bob Dylan) (3/4/2006)
• Cryptogram (for William Blake) (3/4/2006)
• My Ideal (3/4/2006)

• "Cave" by Endre Toth, a philosophical tale (6/27/2000, rev. 8/15/2001)
  (See also A Memorial Tribute to Endre Toth & "«Mi Ne Deziras Esti Juvelo»" de Georgi Miĥalkov)
  
• "Truth" by Marketa Prochazkova, a Czech poem (7/25/2000)
  
• "Doubt and Atheism" by Evlogi Dankov, translation of / traduko de “Dubo kaj Ateismo” de 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 R. Dumain (9/23/2001)
• Invisible Midwifery / Akuŝo Nevidebla by R. Dumain (11/24/2003)
• Open Up the Sound (for Miles Davis, 1959) / Malfermu la Sonon (por Miles Davis, 1959) by R. Dumain (11/25/2003)
• Dialogiko je la Fino de Dialektiko: Enhavo / Dialogic at the End of Dialectic: Contents, de/by Eugen Macko (1/25/2004)
  (Rigardu ankaŭ Enkondukon)
• The Sun-Devourer (for Joan Miró) by Ralph Dumain, translation of "La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)" (12/24/2005)

• “Games in Esperanto-Land” (3/4/2005)
• “Sociolinguist Extends a Hand: Academic Forum on Esperanto at Georgetown University” (11/12/2004)
• Specimens of Esperanto (Mostly From Poems) That Illustrate its Unique Expressive Qualities Based on its System of Word-Building (5/21/2005)
• Antilanguage & Esperanto (4/29/2006)

ORIGINALAJ VERKOJ & TRADUKOJ EN ESPERANTO /
ORIGINAL WRITINGS & TRANSLATIONS IN ESPERANTO
(nova ero komence de 2003.11.24 / new feature beginning 24 November 2003)

• ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R. Dumain (12/17/2003)
     see also /rigardu ankaŭ «L’athéisme espérantophone» par Martin Lavallée (12/19/2003)
• Pri ATEO en la Monda Ateista Movado  (7/19/2006)
• ATEO Renkontas IHEU (7/18/2006)
• Review (Recenzo): Evaldo Pauli, "Rekta Pensado" (11/24/2003)
• Review (Recenzo): Emba, "Maria kaj la Grupo" (11/24/2003)
• La Interna Ideo (11/24/2003)
• Akuŝo Nevidebla (11/24/2003)
• "Stripes" / "Strioj" (2/1/2001)
• Je Unua Neĝoŝtormo Ĉisezona (Upon the First Snow-Storm of the Season: Blake & Coltrane in Esperanto) (9/23/2001)
• Malfermu la Sonon (por Miles Davis, 1959) (11/25/2003)
• "Kultura Revolucio en Sovetunio: Lingvaj Reformoj kaj Esperanto, 1917-1937" de Michael Smith, trad. R. Dumain (11/25/2003)
• C.L.R. James & Usona Kulturo (11/26/2003)
• "Pro Mia Venta Furioz’", de William Blake, trad. R. Dumain (11/27/2003)
• "La Birdoj" [The Birds] de William Blake, trad. R. Dumain (4/19/07)
• “Kontraŭ la Diktaturo de Alaho” trad. R. Dumain (12/15/2003)
• El Kontraŭreligia Propagando de Leono Trockij, trad. R. Dumain (12/16/2003)
• El Dio kaj la Ŝtato de Mikaelo Bakunin, trad. R. Dumain (12/16/2003)
• Afrikanaj Usonanoj por Humanismo (12/17/2003)
• “Dialogo kun Afrika Esperantisto” Dialogas R. Dumain & D-ro Akwasi Osei (12/17/2003)
• “Postkomentaro al Dankov” de R. Dumain; respondo al “Dubo kaj Ateismo” de Evlogi Dankov (12/17/2003)
• Review (Recenzo): Sabira Ståhlberg, Durankulak (1/25/2004, aldono 2/10/2004)
• La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró) (11/10/2004)
• Laŭ Afrika Melodio (11/10/2004)
• Ĉi-Stato sub la Ŝtato (11/10/2004)
• Mia Deksepa Jaro (11/10/2004)
• Recenzo Nefinverkita: Evaldo Pauli, Pri Dubo kaj Certeco (11/23/2004)
• Trockij Pravis! Memore pri la 50-a Datreveno de la Murdo de Leono Trockij (2/15/2006)
• Por Hilton Ruiz, Portorikana Pianisto, poemo & memoro (6/9/2006)
• Duke Ellington Komunikas ‘Preter Kategorio’, trad. R. Dumain (12/13/06)
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro (11/4/06)
• Misio de la Filozofo de Paul Nizan, trad. R. Dumain (11/24/07)
• William Blake 250-jara: Kulturpolitiko kaj la Monda Disvastigo de Beletro (11/28/07)

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• “Studies in a Dying Culture” (7/10/2006; new location 1/6/07, conversion to WordPress 3/16/07)

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• Ground Zero: Crying for New York (photo memorial) (3/3/2002)
• Ground Zero Photo Gallery (3/11/2002)

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