"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT"
by Ralph Dumain
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ESSAYS,
COMMENTARIES, REVIEWS:
- Researching
the Autodidact as a Concept (1) (2/12/2000)
- Hegel
& Me (2/17/2000, rev. 3/8/2006, 7/28/09)
- 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 2001James'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)
- 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 Marcuses 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 MechanicsNOT! 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
Womens 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 MarcuseA
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 Lloyds 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)
- 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 Reeds 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
Blakes Manuscript Lyrics: Discussion in Commemoration of Blakes 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)
- Commentary on Matthew Piscioneri,
Habermas: The Myth of Reason (9/11/08)
- The
Autodidact as Subversive (1/27/09)
- The Positivist Dispute
in German Sociology: Notes, Questions & Comments
- Badiou
and the Bankruptcy of Fashionable French Philosophy (7/28/09)
- Review
of David-Hillel Rubin, Marxism and Materialism: A Study in Marxist Theory of
Knowledge (1/6/10)
- Review
of James Miller, History and Human Existence: From Marx to Merleau-Ponty
(1/10/10)
- Stephen Jay Gould's
Philosophy & History of Science & the Humanities by R. Dumain (1/15/10)
- Cornel
West and Marxism: An Incomplete Review (1/27/10)
- Nietzsche
& the Analytic-Continental Divide: Denouement of Bourgeois Reason; Or, Analytical
Philosophy's Being-for-Death (1/31/10)
- On
the Significance of The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
(2/13/10)
- Explicit
& Tacit Positions of Science & Philosophy on Reason & Religion:
Responses to a Questionnaire (3/16/10)
- Letter
on Sapir-Whorf discussions at LogFest 89 and other topics (4/17/10)
- On
Geoffrey Waite on Esoterism, Heidegger, and Cassirer (6/18/10)
- On
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions
(7/27/10, rev. 7/29/10)
- Borges
Ironizing Idealism: I Dream Too Much (8/6/10)
- Birth
of a Black Nation, or Death Throes of a Culture? [Review of Birth
of a Nation: A Comic Novel by Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin, illustrated
by Kyle Baker] (9/1/10)
- The Twix Dialogues
(10/25/10)
- The Partial
Sociology of Philosophies: The Historical Perspective of Randall Collins (An Unfinished
Review) (11/27/10)
- Review
of Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language
of the Jews (2/20/11)
- On
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
(8/2/11)
- Walter
Benjamin and Ars Combinatoria (11/30/11)
- Rod
Serling (December 25, 1924 June 28, 1975), A Great American (5/6/12)
ORIGINAL FILM REVIEWS
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POETRY (begun 3/8/2000) April is National Poetry Month
TRANSLATIONS FROM ESPERANTO BY
RALPH DUMAIN
(new feature beginning 27 June 2000)
(for these and
other Esperanto links see also Esperanto study guide)
- "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)
- "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)
- William AuldFrom
Introduction to Esperanto to Military Service by William Auld (11/19/10)
- "Vincent" by Sandor Szathmari, a short story about Galileo:
Parts One,
Two, Three (11/24/2000)
- Epilogue By the Author at
the Request of the Publisher by Sándor Szathmári (5/5/12)
- Sándor
Szathmári pri / on Julio Baghy (Excerpt from original with English
translation) (5/9/12)
WRITINGS
IN ENGLISH ON ESPERANTO
ANGLALINGVAJ VERKOJ PRI ESPERANTO
(new
feature beginning 12 November 2004)
(for these and other Esperanto links see
also Esperanto study guide)
ORIGINALAJ
VERKOJ & TRADUKOJ EN ESPERANTO /
ORIGINAL WRITINGS & TRANSLATIONS
IN ESPERANTO
(nova ero komence de 2003.11.24 / new feature beginning
24 November 2003)
- Bulteno
de Esperanto-Societo de Vaŝingtono, Nova Serio = Esperanto
Society of Washington Newsletter, New Series. #1 - #6 (Novembro 1986 - Decembro
1987) sub redakcio de R. Dumain (7/9/10)
- ATEO:
Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R.
Dumain (12/17/2003)
see also /rigardu ankaŭ «Lathéisme
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)
- Adoptita
Mame-Loŝn (Poemeto por la Zamenhof-tago) (9/17/09)
- 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)
- Laboristoj
kiuj luktis: Laboristoj mortis: Nekrologo pri Manny Fried (2/28/12)
- Emanuel
Manny Fried (1913-2011): Heroo de la Laborista Klaso (4/7/12)
- "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)
- Plenas
via pelv da semo [Thou hast a lap full of seed] de William Blake,
trad. R. Dumain (12/2/09)
- Moto
por la Kanzonoj de Naivo kaj de Sperto [Motto to the Songs of Innocence
& of Experience], trad. R. Dumain (11/1/11)
- Jevgenij
Zamjatin pri Revolucio, Entropio, Dogmo & Herezo, trad. Ralph Dumain
(6/13/11)
- Kontraŭ la Diktaturo
de Alaho trad. R. Dumain (12/15/2003)
- El
Kontraŭreligia Propagando de Leono Trockij, trad. R. Dumain (12/16/2003)
- Trockij
pri Religia & Sekulara Mistifiko, trad. R. Dumain (5/18/09)
- Omaĝe
al Prometeo de Karlo Markso, trad. Ralph Dumain (6/27/09)
- Karlo
Markso pri Religio kiel Reflekso, trad. R. Dumain (5/26/09)
- Karlo
Markso pri Scienco, Religio, Historia Metodologio, trad. R. Dumain (7/4/09)
- El
Dio kaj la Ŝtato de Mikaelo Bakunin, trad. R. Dumain (12/16/2003)
- "Adiaŭ
Kristo" [Goodbye Christ] de Langston Hughes, trad. R. Dumain (12/26/09)
- 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)
- Mole
Mateniĝe (2/3/10)
- Recenzo
Nefinverkita: Evaldo Pauli, Pri Dubo kaj Certeco (11/23/2004
- Carnap
on Wittgenstein & Esperanto / Carnap pri Wittgenstein & Esperanto
(9/4/2004)
- "Lingvoplanado"
(Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap (9/9/2004)
- 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)
- Voĉo
de Woody Guthrie, tradukis Ralph Dumain (por la 100a datreveno de Woody Guthrie)
kun Son-dosiero / Sound file (12
MB / 12:30 min.) (7/14/12)
- Duke
Ellington Komunikas Preter Kategorio, trad. R. Dumain (12/13/06)
- "Ligoj de Frateco"
[Bonds of Brotherhood] de Paul Robeson (12/8/09)
- "Buboj"
[Jitterbugs] de LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, trad. R. Dumain (1/20/10, rev. 8/1/10)
- 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)
- Pri
Proponita Konvertiĝo al Kristanismo: El la Aŭtobiografio de Salomon
Maimon (7/23/08)
- Cinika
Racio Difinita de Peter Sloterdijk (8/2/08)
- Konstelacio:
tabulludo: regularo / Constellation: board game: rules (11/01/08)
- Monĉaso:
tabulludo: regularo / Moneychase: board game: rules (11/01/08)
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