"THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT" by Ralph Dumain WHAT'S NEW ON THIS SITE Liubov Popova Portrait of a Philosopher 1915

9 May 2008

• Esperanto Study Guide: ligo sub rubriko ateismo aldonita

5 May 2008
190th Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Happy birthday, Mom!

30 April 2008

• William Blake 250-jara: Kulturpolitiko kaj la Monda Disvastigo de Beletro (R. Dumain): notoj aldonitaj
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress: link added

25 April 2008

• Richard Wright Study Guide: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

23 April 2008

• "Dialectical Naturalism: An Objective Ethics?" by Takis Fotopoulos: link to radio interview added

21 April 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated

20 April 2008

• "Dialectical Naturalism: An Objective Ethics?" by Takis Fotopoulos
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

19 April 2008
3nd anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

14 April 2008
Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto: 15 December 1859 - 14 April 1917

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

13 April 2008

• Richard Wright Study Guide: updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated: ligoj pri ateismo aldonitaj

12 April 2008

• La Universo - kelkaj faktoj por helpi vin loĝi tie de Douglas Adams, tradukis Matt McLauchlin
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• External Links page updated
• Meera Nanda Online updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated
• Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide: Habermas link added

10 April 2008
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)

9 April 2008
110th Birthday of Paul Robeson (9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976)

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

7 April 2008

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

6 April 2008

• The Popes Combat Modernity in the Bourgeois Century
• Wisdom and Abstract Thought: links added
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

4 April 2008
40 anniversary of assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

31 March 2008
Birthday of René Descartes (Renatus Cartesius: 31 March 1596 - 11 February 1650)

• Ideology (Frankfurt Institute for Social Research)
• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion: Postscript by R. Dumain

30 March 2008

• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion by R. Dumain
• Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Annotated Bibliography by R. Dumain
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography updated: references on Ramon Llull added
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• "The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects)" by A. Arsenyev: Links to book added
• "Humanism and Science" by E. V. Ilyenkov: Links to book added

16 March 2008

• The Privilege of Experience by Theodor W. Adorno

15 March 2008

• "The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects)" by A. Arsenyev

14 March 2008
Albert Einstein's birthday (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955)

8 March 2008

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

7 March 2008

• "Zu Spinozas Ethik" (On Spinoza's Ethics) — poem by Albert Einstein
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link

6 March 2008

• "Humanism and Science" by E. V. Ilyenkov

5 March 2008

• One-Dimensional Man: A New Science? by Herbert Marcuse

2 March 2008

• On Bentham and Coleridge (Excerpts) by John Stuart Mill
• John Stuart Mill & the Dualities: Bentham & Coleridge — Commentary by Ralph Dumain
• One-Dimensional Man: From Operationalism to Zen by Herbert Marcuse
• One-Dimensional Man: Classical Philosophy, the Division of Labor, Abstraction & Practice by Herbert Marcuse
• Black Folk and the Struggle in ‘Philosophy’ by Lucius T. Outlaw

1 March 2008

• The Village Atheist (Excerpts) by E. Haldeman-Julius

27 February 2008
Ralph Nader's (1934- ) birthday

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography: updated

21 February 2008
6th anniversary of this web site at current domain
Birthday of Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003)

• Adorno on Metaphysical Experience, Mysticism & Tradition
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated: nova ligo pri Hispana Civila Milito

18 February 2008

• Adorno and the Frankfurt School by Jack Lindsay

17 February 2008

• Adorno's Negative Dialectic by Howard Williams

16 February 2008

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

15 February 2008
Birthday of Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642)

12 February 2008
Darwin Day: Charles Darwin's Birthday

• Esperanto Study Guide: sekcio pri Ateismo updated

8 February 2008

• Concerning Resentment by Max Horkheimer
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Ethical Culture / Rationalism / Agnosticism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: page title expanded

6 February 2008

• Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress
• Humanism—100 Years of Freethought by David Tribe
• A Different Kind of Criticism [of Religion: Excerpt] by Max Horkheimer
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

31 January 2008

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

30 January 2008

• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography: updated

29 January 2008

• “Logic, Dialectics, Politics: Some Recent Controversies” by Hayward R. Alker, Jr.

28 January 2008

• “What Is Dialectical Logic?” by Franz Loeser
• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography: updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• William Blake Study Guide: link to The William Blake Klezmatrix added

18 January 2008

• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1): links added & new reference
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography: updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

17 January 2008

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

14 January 2008

• “The Main Principles of David Hume's Epistemology as a Source of Contemporary Positivism” by Elena Panova
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link

11 January 2008

• David-Hillel Ruben on Materialism & Praxis

10 January 2008

• Literature and Dialectical Materialism by John Strachey
• Esperanto Study Guide: sekcio pri Ateismo: Dokumentoj de IHEU: updated

9 January 2008

• Marxism and Modern Idealism by John Lewis

8 January 2008

• Man in the “Industrial Society”: Is Herbert Marcuse’s “Critical Theory of Society” Critical? by Yuri Zamoshkin & Ninel Motroshilova
• The Young Hegelians: Selected Bibliography: updated
• La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen de Mark Starr: novaj eksteraj retligoj aldonitaj / new external links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

7 January 2008

• On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors': YouTube link added
• "Kultura Revolucio en Sovetunio: Lingvaj Reformoj kaj Esperanto, 1917-1937" de Michael Smith, trad. R. Dumain: bibliografia aldono / bibliographic reference added

31 December 2007

• Fresko-Sonetoj al Christian S. de Heinrich Heine, trad. K. Kalocsay

30 December 2007

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

28 December 2007
Birthday of Martin Milner (1931), co-star of TV series Route 66

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

23 December 2007

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto Study Guide updated

19 December 2007

• Esperanto Study Guide updated

16 December 2007

• Heinrich Heine: La Hejmreveno / The Homecoming (1)
• Esperanto Study Guide updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

15 December 2007
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

13 December 2007
110th Birthday of Heinrich Heine (n. Chaim Harry Heine)
(13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

12 December 2007

• Some Thoughts of Paul Valéry on Philosophy

6 December 2007

• Salomon Maimon’s Autobiography: On a Proposed Conversion to Christianity
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated

5 December 2007

• Essay on the Devil and Devils by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress updated
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated

4 December 2007

• “Necessity! Thou Mother of the World!” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “I Will Beget a Son” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Bedřich Smetana de Jiří Kořínek

3 December 2007

• La Stoikismo de Agostinho da Silva

2 December 2007

• La Vespero

28 November 2007
William Blake's 250th birthday!

• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): entry added
• William Blake 250-jara: Kulturpolitiko kaj la Monda Disvastigo de Beletro de R. Dumain

26 November 2007

• "Duopa Mondo Mia" de Ezra Clark Stillman
• "Kiom Longe Atendi" de Brian Price-Heywood

24 November 2007

• Misio de la Filozofo de Paul Nizan

20 November 2007

• "Heine kaj la Amo" de Gaston Waringhien

18 November 2007

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated

16 November 2007

• "How Small We Are How Little We Know" by Earl Wilson, Jr.
• "Why Marx or Nietzsche?" by András Gedö
• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link
• External Links page updated: National Yiddish Book Center added

10 November 2007

• Czesław Jastrzębiec Kozłowski: Verkoj, Recenzoj, Informoj
• Revivigo de Czeslaw Kozlowski de Kálmán Kalocsay

9 November 2007

• Proletaro kaj Religio (Fragmento) de N. Lenin, Esperantigis G. Dem

8 November 2007

• Poeto de l’Kosma Melankolio (Skizo pri Cz. Kozlowski) de E. Miĥalski

5 November 2007

• “Mi Estas” (Dediĉita al E. Miĥalski) de E. Izgur (11/5/07)

4 November 2007

• Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought
• Adorno on Metaphysics, Philosophical Questions, History, Sociology, & Culture expanded

3 November 2007

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated
• William Blake Study Guide: links added

2 November 2007

• Review of Emanuel Fried's Boilermakers & Martinis by Anthony Chase
• Democratic Leaders Are at a Fork in the Road by Emanuel Fried

1 November 2007

• Evoluo de Koncepto de Dio (El ABC de Sendieco) de A. Figurin (trad. G.P.)
• Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach Gallery (NEW!)
• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography: updated

31 October 2007

• Kontraŭ Dio! Ateista Krestomatieto
  • Kovrilo + Enhavo
  • Dia Komedio (Antero Do Quental, el la portugala trad. Abilio Ribeiro)
  • Mia Kredo (N. Minskij, elrusigis N. Vladimiroviĉ)

30 October 2007

• William Auld: Letero al R. Dumain, 1987.01.26 (bildo de la originala)
• William Auld: Letero al R. Dumain, 1987.01.26 (transskribo)

27 October 2007

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography: updated

26 October 2007

• R. Dumain contact address changed on site
• "The Marxist-Leninist Theory of Humor" by Tom McLaughlin

25 October 2007

• "The Empiricist Account of Scientific Knowledge—A Polemical Evaluation" by Richard Arthur
• “Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations)” by Hilary Rose & Stephen Rose
• Working Papers on Marxism and Science: front matter

24 October 2007

• William Blake’s Manuscript Lyrics: Discussion in Commemoration of Blake’s 250th Birthday (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827), November 2007 compiled by R. Dumain

21 October 2007

• Note on the Poznan School by R. Dumain
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: new link to YouTube
• Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science & Synthese: Selected Volumes (Eastern Europe & Marxism): revised & updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): updated
• Million Man March satirical flyer (Oct. 1995) by R. Dumain

20 October 2007

• "Marx's Method in Social Science, and Its Relationship to Classical and Modern Physics and Mathematics" by J. Witt-Hansen

18 October 2007

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated: Poznan School links added
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

15 October 2007

• Wilhelm Ostwald's ‘The Bridge’ by Niles R. Holt
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography updated

13 October 2007

• William Blake’s 250^th Birthday: Selected Web Links
• William Blake Study Guide: links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (updated)

10 October 2007

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

6 October 2007

• William Blake & the Jews: The Bibliography (sans annotations)
• William Blake & the Jews: An Annotated Bibliography
• Notes for Discussion of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (27 April 2005)
• William Blake Study Guide: links added
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated

4 October 2007
50th Anniversary of Sputnik, start of Space Age

29 September 2007

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

27 September 2007
In memoriam: Evelyn's 60th birthday
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

26 September 2007
Birthday of Gary Bartz (1940), jazz saxophonist

25 September 2007
50th anniversary of integration of Little Rock Central High School

24 September 2007

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

23 September 2007
John Coltrane's 81st birthday

2 September 2007

• Heinrich Heine on German Romantic Orientalism: 2nd quote added

29 August 2007
40th anniversary: The Fugitive final episode
“The day the running stopped”

25 August 2007
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)

20 August 2007

• "Blake and Ideology" by Edward Larrissy

17 August 2007

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography: updated

16 August 2007

• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography: updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: updated

14 August 2007

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: updated

12 August 2007
8th anniversary of The Autodidact Project

7 August 2007
Birthday of Rahsaan Roland Kirk
(7 August 1936 - 5 December 1977)

• Phenomenology and Existence: Toward a Philosophy Within Nature by Marvin Farber
  •  Contents & Foreword
  •  Marvin Farber on Maurice Merleau‑Ponty
• The Philosophy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk: link added

5 August 2007

• Oh, William Blake! by Edgar Lee Masters (under pseudonym “Webster Ford”)
• William Blake Study Guide: links added

25 July 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide: Habermas link added

24 July 2007

• Scepticism & Fideism by Richard H. Popkin

16 July 2007

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)

8 July 2007

• Descartes to Mersenne, 20 November 1629
• A Fragment on Miracles (1813-1815) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• [A Refutation of the Christian Religion] (1814?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Fragment of A Refutation of Deism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

4 July 2007

• “There Is No God” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

3 July 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 July 2007

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: link(s) added

26 June 2007

• On Polytheism (1819?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

25 June 2007
Happy birthday to me!

23 June 2007

• The American Utopia by Eduard Batalov
  • Contents
  • Chapter II.5:  The Technocratic Utopia
  • Chapter III.2: The Technocratic Utopia

23 June 2007

• The American Utopia, Chapter 4, "From Utopia to Antiutopia", by Eduard Batalov
• La Releviĝo de Tomaso Paine de R. W. Morrell

22 June 2007

• Kanto por la angloj [Song to the Men of England] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld
• Al— [To—, 1821] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. William Auld
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro: new section / nova sekcio: Auld Aviadas
• "Al Josephine Baker" de Poul Thorsen: graphic added

9 June 2007

• Moralism & Morality (Excerpt) by Anthony Skillen

5 June 2007

• James Baldwin Revisited (2): Go Tell It on the Mountain by Ralph Dumain

31 May 2007

• Revisiting Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by R. Dumain

22 May 2007

• James Baldwin Revisited (1): Prolegomena
• Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality: updated
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: revised

19 May 2007

• Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality

15 May 2007

• Review of Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo (1977) by R. Dumain

8 May 2007

• Hegel's Aesthetics: Selected Bibliography (revised)

6 May 2007

• A World in a Grain of Sand [Mondo en Sablero] de Roberto Passos Nogueira

5 May 2007
189th Birthday of Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Happy birthday, Mom!

• "Al Josephine Baker" de Poul Thorsen
• "Al la Juda Foririnto" de Lodewijk Cornelius Deij
• Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (5/5/07)
• “The Common Well” (To Charles Chaplin) by Piet Hein: links added

3 May 2007

• ATEO: Bazaj Informoj & Enhavtabeloj de Ateismo sub redakcio de R. Dumain: retligoj aldonitaj
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

2 May 2007

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)

29 April 2007

• La Biblioteko de Babelo, de Jorge Luis Borges, tradukis Gulio Cappa

22 April 2007

• La Klera Despoto de John I. Francis
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

19 April 2007
2nd anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

• "La Birdoj" [The Birds] de William Blake, tradukis R. Dumain
• Bibliography on Alternatives to Capitalism / American Ennui, compiled by Daniel S. Mesnik

18 April 2007
Death of Albert Einstein, 1955

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology, Politics: An Annotated Bibliography (revised)
• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist: links added to this & other Starr pages

9 April 2007
Birthday of Paul Robeson (9 April 1898 - 23 January 1976)

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

5 April 2007

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism updated

4 April 2007
39th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Esperanto: Photo Archives: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

31 March 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

29 March 2007

• NEW: mia Esperanto-blogo ĉe Blogger / my Esperanto Blog at Blogger: Ĝirafo
• "Letero el ekster la (E-) kulturo" de Radosław Nowakowski

24 March 2007

• Lukács on Wittgenstein
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

16 March 2007

• Reformed Materialism and Intrinsic Endurance by Roy Wood Sellars
• Emergence Blog officially at new location in WordPress blog format

14 March 2007

• Criticism of “Contemporary Society” and “Negative Dialectics” (Excerpts on Adorno) by E. Batalov
• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "On Trends in the Status of Dialectical Logic: A Brief Study of Lefebvre, Ilyenkov and Wald" by Claude M. J. Braun

13 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "Karl Marx On Science and Nature" [excerpts, with discussion] by Robert S. Cohen [et al]
  • On Althusser, Ideology and Marxist Theory of Knowledge by David W. Schwartzman & Mohsin Siddique, Response by Lester Talkington
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

12 March 2007

• Marx, Peano and Differentials by Hubert Kennedy (from Science and Nature)

10 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • Karl Popper and Creationism
  • Ludwik Fleck: Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Dieter Wittich
  • Bibliographic Briefs for Natural Scientists, issue #4
  • Letters to the Editor, issue #5

9 March 2007

• Articles from Science and Nature
  • "Christopher Caudwell and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" by Shaun Lovejoy
  • Review of Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature by Ethel Tobach
  • Science and Marxism in England, 1930-1945 by Robert E. Filner

8 March 2007
International Women's Day

6 March 2007

• "Esperanto und Atheismus" de Detlev Blanke

18 February 2007

• Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism”
• Engels (& Borges) on Carlyle

13 February 2007

• Ĉu Oni Povas Vivi Sen Religio? de André Lorulot

12 February 2007
Darwin Day: Charles Darwin's Birthday

11 February 2007
Happy birthday, Harry!

• "La Socia Enhavo de l'Ĵazmuziko" de Roland Levreaud

10 February 2007

• Wittgenstein and Dialectic: An Annotated Bibliography
• Wittgenstein and Hegel: An Annotated Bibliography
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

8 February 2007

• Graham Priest, Paraconsistent Logic, and Philosophy, Or, Logic and Reality by R. Dumain

• Graham Priest's Inclosure Schema

• Graham Priest vs Erwin Marquit on Contradiction by R. Dumain
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated

5 February 2007

• Wittgenstein, Marxism, Sociology: An Annotated Bibliography
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide): updated
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

3 February 2007

• "Ideoj" de Heinrich Heine, tradukis Leopold Einstein

2 February 2007

• La Dia Pesto de Johann Most

31 January 2007

• "Spinoza, La Filozofo de la Homa Feliĉo" de Simon Aarse

29 January 2007

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

25 January 2007

• Principles of Emergent Realism: Philosophical Essays by Roy Wood Sellars
  • Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • Why Naturalism and Not Materialism  
  • Is Naturalism Enough?

24 January 2007

• "Wittgensteinian Foundations of Non-Fregean Logic" by Boguslaw Wolniewicz
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)

23 January 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

22 January 2007

• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated: Eŭgeno Miĥalski added

21 January 2007
110th birthday of Eŭgeno Miĥalski (1897.01.21 - 1937.10.15)
Russian Esperanto poet

11 January 2007

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

10 January 2007

• NEW FORMAT & LOCATION: “Studies in a Dying Culture” (using Blogger, hopefully temporarily)
  • old location (for old posts): “Studies in a Dying Culture”
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

25 December 2006
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Death of James Brown (b. 3 May 1933)

• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

23 December 2006

• Adorno on Brecht

19 December 2006

• Swami Agehananda Bharati on Hindu Fascism & Western Infatuation

13 December 2006
Birthday of Heinrich Heine (n. Chaim Harry Heine)
(13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856)

• Duke Ellington Komunikas ‘Preter Kategorio’
  (Duke Ellington Communicates Beyond Category, Esperanto translation by R. Dumain)
• Walter Benjamin on Bertolt Brecht's Lao Tzu

12 December 2006

• Spinoza en Esperantujo (Spinoza in Esperanto-land): Bibliography & Web Guide
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement updated

8 December 2006
John Lennon murdered on this date, in 1980

• Whitehead & Marxism: Selected Bibliography

7 December 2006
Noam Chomsky's 78th Birthday

6 December 2006

• "Putting Descartes Before the Horse" by Dave Berg
• Meera Nanda Online updated

4 December 2006

• Heinrich Heine en Esperanto (NEW: bibliography & web guide)
• Heinrich Heine: “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam” / “En nord’ unu pino en solo” (en Esperanto)
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: updated

2 December 2006

• “La Vizaĝo” [The Face] de Emmanuel Levinas
• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide): entry added
• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: links added
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: revised
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

29 November 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)

27 November 2006

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

26 November 2006

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated

19 November 2006

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro updated
• Esperanto & Interlinguistics Study Guide updated

18 November 2006

• Phenomenology and Natural Existence: Essays in Honor of Marvin Farber, edited by Dale Riepe
  • Contents & Acknowledgements
  • Introduction by Dale Riepe

14 November 2006

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

13 November 2006
In memoriam: Evelyn
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)
gone 1 1/2 years

• Brecht on Theatre: Entertainment, Instruction, Science, Dialectics

11 November 2006

• "Philosophy's Historic Fate: Museum Pieces, Messages, and Classics" by Albert William Levi
• "Komunika Etiko kaj Esperantismo" de Helmut Welger

10 November 2006

• Descartes' Dualism (Extract) by Albert William Levi

8 November 2006

• Odo al la Okcidenta Vento [Ode to the West Wind] de Percy Bysshe Shelley, trad. K. Kalocsay

7 November 2006

• William Blake en Esperanto (bibliography & web guide)
• "Amikon mian mi koleris" [A Poison Tree] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Londono" [London] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Jen la Respondo" [The Question Answer'd] de William Blake, trad. William Auld
• "Ne Pridiru al l’Amata" [Never pain to tell my love] de William Blake, trad. A.D. Foote
• "La Ĝardeno de l’Amo" [The Garden of Love] de William Blake, trad. A.D. Foote

6 November 2006
Birthday of William Auld (1924-2006), preeminent Esperanto poet

• "La Sekreto de Amo" [Never seek to tell thy love] de William Blake, trad. Clarence Bicknell
• El "Aŭguroj pri Senkulpeco" [from “Auguries of Innocence”] de William Blake, tradukoj de William Auld, Tom Fraser, Aldo de’Giorgi, Meva Maron
• Pri Ne-Verkita Poemo (kun citaĵoj el William Blake -blejk-) de Kris Long
• "La Malsana Rozo" [The Sick Rose] de William Blake, tradukoj de A. D. Foote, Meva Maron, Jens S. Larsen

4 November 2006

• William Auld Memorial Page / En Memoro
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

23 October 2006
50th Anniversary of Hungarian Revolution
10th anniversary of Hegel-by-HyperText

• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide updated

16 October 2006

• Martin Luther King, Jr. & G.W.F. Hegel
• “Martin Luther King’s Debt to Hegel” by John Ansbro
• Dialectic is Cool

14 October 2006

• Discipline 27 by Sun Ra
• Heinrich Heine: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update

9 October 2006

• NEW BIBLIOGRAPHY: Meera Nanda Online
• Outsider Art & Identity Politics: A Dialogue on the Ideology of Politically Correct Art (Ralph & Sally)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

8 October 2006

• Consciousness and Society: A Review by R. Dumain
• Lukács’ Lost Manuscript Tailism and the Dialectic Reviewed by R. Dumain

5 October 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised & updated)

4 October 2006
49th anniversary of inauguration of Space Age with launch of Sputnik

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: updated

2 October 2006

• "Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture" by Dale M. Herder: links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

29 September 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

27 September 2006
In memoriam: Evelyn
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

23 September 2006
Rosh Hashanah
John Coltrane's 80th birthday

19 September 2006

• Adorno on Philosophy, Sociology & History

17 September 2006

• Esperanto Study Guide revised

14 September 2006

• “On the General Characteristic” by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Leibniz on the Universal Characteristic

12 September 2006

• Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement: Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation: links added

11 September 2006
Morto de William Auld: 6 nov 1924 - 11 sept 2006
Death of William Auld, preeminent Esperanto poet

7 September 2006
Happy 81st Birthday, Sallie!

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

6 September 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 13: The Philosophic Meaning of the Copernican Revolution

2 September 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography: links added

31 August 2006

• "Baruch Spinoza" poem by Jorge Luis Borges

25 August 2006
In Memoriam: Lisa Rogers
(25 August 1961 - 15 September 1996)
Would have turned 45 today

• Spinoza's Attributes by Constantin Brunner

20 August 2006

• "The New Materialism" by Roy Wood Sellars

15 August 2006

• On “The Congress” by Jorge Luis Borges: Observations and Questions by Ralph Dumain

14 August 2006

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): new links

13 August 2006

• Negation: Bakunin and Bauer by Paul McLaughlin

12 August 2006

• Bakunin and Feuerbach: On Religion, Philosophy, & Naturalism by Paul McLaughlin

10 August 2006

• Natural Order and the 'Divine Legislator' (according to Bakunin) by Paul McLaughlin

9 August 2006
21st anniversary—Evelyn

• "The Negro Mother" by Langston Hughes, with a personal note

8 August 2006
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 7 Aug 1936 - 5 Dec 1977
Happy 70th, Music Lovers!

• Spinoza’s World-View by A. M. Deborin
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated

6 August 2006

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography updated

3 August 2006

• The Owl of Minerva: The Evolution of German Ideology Critique and Social Theory from Hegel to Nietzsche: A Sketch by R. Dumain

1 August 2006

• Screed on the Politics of Utopianism by R. Dumain

30 July 2006

• Anti-Nietzsche Bibliography: NEW

26 July 2006

• “Obskuraj Radikoj de la ‘Nova Epoko’” de Roland Schnell
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Philosophical Style: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 July 2006
3rd anniversary: death of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003 )
Still in pain

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 July 2006

• "La Serpento en la Dezerto" de Edgar Lee Masters, trad. Zane Gilstrap
• Poemoj de William Auld: “Al Pastro” & “Evoluo” (7/19/2006)
• Pri ATEO en la Monda Ateista Movado de Ralph Dumain 

18 July 2006

• "The Congress" by Jorge Luis Borges
• ATEO Renkontas IHEU de Ralph Dumain 

17 July 2006

• Redesign of this page: button row added
• The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges by L. A. Murrilo
  • Contents & Introduction
  • Jorge Luis Borges—The Ways of Irony in the Labyrinth of Consciousness, 1: Introductory

16 July 2006

• New buttons on Home and Site Map pages: "My Blogs" & "Special Sections"
• "Strong Men" by Sterling A. Brown
• "Spinoza" poem by Jorge Luis Borges

15 July 2006

• The Tramp Speaks! The Most Important Moment in the History of Film: The Final Speech of The Great Dictator (1940) by Charles Chaplin

12 July 2006

• William Blake Works for the Future

11 July 2006

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update

10 July 2006
Happy 20th birthday, Aisha!

• NEW BLOG: “Studies in a Dying Culture”
• "Philosophical Portrait of a Dying Civilization" (1988) by R. Dumain
  • Abstract
  • Full paper

9 July 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (links added)
• Christopher Caudwell: Selected Bibliography (links added)

4 July 2006

• Hegel on the Owl of Minerva
• “Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law” by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury

1 July 2006

• Mark Starr (1894-1985): Workers' Educationist: links added
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam" by Heinrich Heine: links updated

24 June 2006

• Heinrich Heine on Spinoza and Our Lenses
• Heinrich Heine on German Romantic Orientalism

21 June 2006

• "Pri Falsa Konscio kaj Mistifiko" de Ladislav Podmele
• “Negreto” (translated excerpt from Black Boy) de Richard Wright

19 June 2006

• Dialectics Bout: Richard Norman vs. Sean Sayers, review by R. Dumain

18 June 2006

• Heinrich Heine on Leibniz & Spinoza

16 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 13: Dialectical Materialism
• Chapter 18: Pragmatism
• section 7. An “Idealism of Action"—Philosophy of American Imperialism

14 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 19: Features of a Reactionary Philosophy

13 June 2006

• Science versus Idealism by Maurice Cornforth
  • Chapter 16: Positivism in Sociology and Politics; section: "Positivism and Sociology"

12 June 2006

• Partisanship and Objectivity in Theoretical Work by Maurice Cornforth
• Maurice Cornforth on Partisanship and Objectivity by Ralph Dumain
• Science versus Idealism (Contents, Foreword, Introduction) by Maurice Cornforth

10 June 2006

• What Bird Am I?, sound file added: R. Dumain reading his poem, excerpt from interview with Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006
• On Seeing the First Few Minutes of 'The Doors', sound files added: R. Dumain introducing & reading his poem, excerpts from interview with Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006

9 June 2006

• Por Hilton Ruiz, Portorikana Pianisto, poemo & memoro de R. Dumain

7 June 2006

• To breake a little wind, poem by Sir Thomas More

28 May 2006

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Chapter I: Birth of Vedanta and its Earlier Historic Role [extract]

27 May 2006

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Preface
  • Chapter II: British Imperialism at Work: Forces behind the Vedantic Movement

24 May 2006
Birthday of Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, 24 May 1941)
Happy 65th, my friend Bob!

• Esperanto Kiel Anti-Lingvo de Baldur Ragnarsson

• "La Filozofio de Jozefo Ditsgen" de Mark Starr

21 May 2006

• A Taxonomy of Surreal Taxonomists by Prentiss Riddle

20 May 2006

• Review of Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life by Verloren van Themaat
• Filozofo, poemo de L. N. Newell

17 May 2006

• Alice in Washington, theater review by Ralph Dumain

13 May 2006
1st anniversary of Evelyn's death

10 May 2006

• "The Historical Character of the Concept of Nature" by András Gedö

4 May 2006
1st anniversary: Learned that Evelyn would die

2 May 2006
1st anniversary: Evelyn's momentary, last moments of conscious awareness

1 May 2006
May Day: The International Workers' Holiday

• Arta partikulareco kaj Esperanto [pri teorio de Georg Lukàcs] de R. P. Nogueira

• Eastern & Western Philosophy: Unpublished Letter to the Editor [rejoinder by R. Dumain to 'The Great Divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad]

29 April 2006

• Antilanguage & Esperanto

25 April 2006

• NEW! Esperanto & Laborista Movado / Esperanto & the Labor Movement
  Retgvidilo, Bibliografio, Dokumentado / Web Guide, Bibliography, Documentation.
• Marx and Marxism Web Guide updated
• Esperanto Study Guide revised

24 April 2006
1st anniversary: Evelyn's final day of consciousness

21 April 2006

• Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy (Extracts on Total Philosophy, Praxis, Historiography)

19 April 2006
1st anniversary of beginning of Evelyn's terminal hospital stay

18 April 2006
Death of Albert Einstein, 1955

• NEW! Marx and Marxism Web Guide
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• The Incoherence of the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills' Struggle to Unite Knowledge and Action by Fredy Perlman: links revised

13 April 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

10 April 2006
Birthday of Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003)
— In Painful Remembrance

8 April 2006

• On Science and Phenomenology by Herbert Marcuse
• Comment on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron Gurwitsch

31 March 2006

• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)

29 March 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

28 March 2006

• "Charles Reich as Revolutionary Ostrich" by Herbert Marcuse

26 March 2006

• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold: new links added
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: update

23 March 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

22 March 2006

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 March 2006

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

20 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Part II, Linguistic Philosophy; chapter 7: A Place in the Establishment
  • Part III, Marxism; chapter 1: The Dialectical Materialist Approach

17 March 2006

• "How to Think" (Sojourner Truth Organization): links added

16 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Part III, Marxism; chapter 2: The Laws of Thought

15 March 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)
• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide updated

14 March 2006

• Marxism and the Linguistic Philosophy by Maurice Cornforth
  • Contents
  • Foreword to Second Edition
  • Part I, chapter 5, section 5: The refutation of idealism
• Maurice Cornforth on William Blake vs. the Fetishism of Language
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography (revised)

12 March 2006

• The Philosophical Critique of Science and the Neopositivist Critique of Philosophy in the Weimar Republic by Helmut Dubiel
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide: update
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links: new link to online texts added

8 March 2006

• A Garland for Jack Lindsay
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

7 March 2006

• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism updated

4 March 2006

• Richard Wright Defines The Outsider
• Haiku for Richard Wright by R. Dumain
• Where Zeno Peed Haiku by R. Dumain
• Pity the Poor Immigrant (for Bob Dylan), poem by R. Dumain
• Cryptogram (for William Blake), poem by R. Dumain
• My Ideal, poem by R. Dumain

2 March 2006

• Engels contra Holism

1 March 2006

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated
• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links updated
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1): new links

28 February 2006

• On Revolution in Epistemology by V. Kurayev
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Washington Philosophy Circle: Links to Other Sites updated

24 February 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

22 February 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Marx and the Individual Reconsidered: Select Bibliography (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain (revised)

20 February 2006

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

19 February 2006

• "What Philosophers Do" by Adam Schaff

18 February 2006

• The Frankfurt School: Philosophy in Relation to Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Science, and Interdisciplinary Research. Phase 1: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse in the 1930s. Study Group Syllabus by R. Dumain
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

17 February 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

15 February 2006
Birthday of Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642)

• An Evolutionary Interpretation of the English Sonnet by Isadore Nabi
• Trockij Pravis! Memore pri la 50-a Datreveno de la Murdo de Leono Trockij de R. Dumain

13 February 2006

• Science and Evaluation by Maurice Cornforth

10 February 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (revised): new links
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

9 February 2006

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

4 February 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 16: The Place of Logic and Metaphysics in the Advancement of Modern Science

1 February 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank: Introduction - Historical Background

31 January 2006
Death of Coretta Scott King (b. April 27, 1927)

26 January 2006

• Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography (revised)

24 January 2006

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

15 January 2006
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank: bibliographical note added to contents page

8 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 6: Mechanical "Explanation" or Mathematical Description?
  • Chapter 8: Philosophic Misinterpretations of the Quantum Theory

7 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 5: Is There a Trend Today Toward Idealism in Physics?
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

5 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Chapter 10: How Idealists and Materialists View Modern Physics

4 January 2006

• Modern Science and Its Philosophy by Philipp Frank
  • Contents
  • Chapter 11: Logical Empiricism and the Philosophy of the Soviet Union
• Links page updated

3 January 2006

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

2 January 2006

• Esperanto Study Guide updated: new links for interlinguistics & Esperanto
• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

1 January 2006

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

31 December 2005

• "Terminologiaj Observoj" [Ĉerpoj pri Hegel, Filozofiaj & Terminologiaj Principoj] de Yamasaki Seikô
• Cynical Reason Today: A Selected Bibliography (rev.)

28 December 2005

• Marx & Engels on the Science of History

26 December 2005

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated & new links

25 December 2005
Birthday of Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

• Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

24 December 2005

• The Sun-Devourer (for Joan Miró) by Ralph Dumain, translation of "La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)"
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

23 December 2005

• A Personal Tribute to Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955): link added
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links

11 December 2005

• Philosophy for the Future: The Quest of Modern Materialism: Foreword & Contents: new offsite links to essays added

10 December 2005
In memoriam: Richard Pryor (1 December 1940 - 10 December 2005)

8 December 2005
In memoriam: John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

3 December 2005

• "Logical Empiricism" by Maurice Cornforth
• NEW FEATURE: Washington Philosophy Circle:
  Washington DC Metropolitan Area Philosophical Events: Past Events

1 December 2005
50th anniversary: arrest of Rosa Parks, beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott

21 November 2005

• 9-1-1 Haiku by R. Dumain
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, bibliographic update

19 November 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)

18 November 2005

• Simple and Higher Categories of the Dialectic by Georg Lukács

13 November 2005
In loving memory of Evelyn, six months gone
Evelyn Russell
(27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

6 November 2005

• Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
  • Herbert Marcuse: The New Society
  • Theoretical Background: Herbert Marcuse

30 October 2005

• Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse & Karl Popper)
  • Contents
  • Marxism, Liberalism, and the Foundations of Scientific Method by Frederic L. Bender
  • Afterword to the German Edition by Franz Stark
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

26 October 2005
Birthday of Bootsy Collins (born William Collins, 1951)

24 October 2005
Death of Rosa Lee Parks (b. 4 February 1913)

22 October 2005

• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links

15 October 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 October 2005
Pharoah Sanders' 65th birthday

1 October 2005

• The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology) by Herbert Marcuse

27 September 2005
In memoriam: Evelyn Russell
27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005

21 September 2005

• Philosophy and Critical Theory (Excerpt: Philosophy and Class Society) by Herbert Marcuse

9 September 2005

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

5 September 2005

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Chapter XI: Triumph of Vedanta

3 September 2005

• Vedanta and the Bengal Renaissance by Niranjan Dahr
  • Contents
  • Chapter X: Secular English Education and Learning

26 August 2005

• As of 19 August I'm doing book reviews on amazon.com. This link also appears on my Links page.

25 August 2005

• A Checklist of Jack Lindsay's Books by John Arnold: external link added

23 August 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 August 2005

• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

20 August 2005

• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 August 2005

• William Blake—Social and Political Aspects: Bibliography Based on the Collection of Ralph Dumain

18 August 2005

• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (revised, mirrors changes above)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)

14 August 2005

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Links page updated

13 August 2005
Remembering Evelyn, 3 months after

• The Vacillation of Ideology (Excerpt) by Étienne Balibar
• Book Review: Intellectuals and Public Life: added Addendum on Heine, Habermas, et al

12 August 2005
6th anniversary
of the debut of 'The Autodidact Project' web site

• "Socialist Individualism?" by Magnus E. Marsdal

11 August 2005
Birthday of Robert Green Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]

• Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links updated

10 August 2005

• Comprehensive site index: Descriptive list of site pages, updated
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Albert Einstein and Black Americans (links added & updated)

9 August 2005
1st date with Evelyn, 1985

8 August 2005

• Reification by Gajo Petrović
• "From Hegel to Marcuse" by Lucio Colletti

6 August 2005

• NEW: Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links

5 August 2005

• Science and Philosophy in Ancient India by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
• T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason

4 August 2005

• Audience/Reading Public, Professionalization/Specialization of Writers, Literary Forms, Division of Labor: Bibliography (revised)
• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide) (revised)

27 July 2005

• Philosophy of Paraconsistency & Associated Logics (Web Guide)

24 July 2005

• Alternatives to Positivism by Igor Naletov: entire book now online

21 July 2005
In memoriam: Jim Murray
April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

19 July 2005

• Lokayata by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

17 July 2005
In memoriam: John Coltrane (23 September 1926 - 17 July 1967)

16 July 2005

• Some Loud Thinking About the Bhagavadgita by G. Ramakrishna

13 July 2005
Birthday of Nikolai A. Rubakin (1862-1946)
Founder of Bibliopsychology

• The Thematic Component by Gerald Holton

6 July 2005

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

3 July 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

2 July 2005

• Emergence Blog (new page: current)
• Emergence Blog (archive: 23 Feb - 3 June 2005)
• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)

1 July 2005

• Emergence Blog (new page: 23 Feb - March 2005)
• Emergence Blog: Start: 5 Nov 2004 - 25 Feb 2005 (original archive edited)

30 June 2005

• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XV: Materialism and Idealism by George Thomson
• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XIV: Being (§5 & 6) by George Thomson
• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society: Chapter XVI: False Consciousness by George Thomson

29 June 2005

• The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society (Contents & Prefaces) by George Thomson

27 June 2005

• Alvin Gouldner: Notes & Commentary by R. Dumain

23 June 2005

• "The Ideological Nature of Teaching Philosophy to Children" by Edward D'Angelo

22 June 2005

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

21 June 2005
100th birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980)
1st day of spring

16 June 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Hegel on Education: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 June 2005

• Marx & Engels on Skepticism & Praxis: Selected Quotations
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

10 June 2005

• Experience and Subjectivism (Sections I.F-II.D) by Marvin Farber

6 June 2005

• Reflexivity & Situatedness Study Guide
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

5 June 2005

• "On Unreflective Reflexivity" by R. Dumain
• Edmund Husserl and the Aims of Phenomenology by Marvin Farber

23 May 2005

• Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy (review of J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West) by Ralph Dumain

21 May 2005

• Specimens of Esperanto (Mostly From Poems) That Illustrate its Unique Expressive Qualities Based on its System of Word-Building

19 May 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1) updated: new links
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, new links

18 May 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)

13 May 2005
In memoriam: Evelyn Russell (27 September 1947 - 13 May 2005)

• For my beloved Evelyn

2 May 2005

• Cultural Criticism and the Social Division of Labor by R. Dumain

1 May 2005
May Day: The International Workers' Holiday

• Solitude: Vignettes by R. Dumain

29 April 2005

• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Washington Philosophy Circle pages revised

28 April 2005

• The Dodo Bird (Excerpt) by Emanuel Fried
• NEW SECTION: Washington Philosophy Circle

24 April 2005

• Originality, Cultural Capital, and Class Distinction by R. Dumain
• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

21 April 2005

• The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes by R. Dumain: Borges links added

20 April 2005

• Originality Blues: Tales of the ‘70s by R. Dumain
• The Philosophy of Originality: Vignettes by R. Dumain
• Invisible Midwifery / Akuŝo Nevidebla, poem in Esperanto & English by R. Dumain: Esperanto original revised

18 April 2005
50th anniversary: death of Albert Einstein

• Einstein Gone 50 Years

10 April 2005
Birthday of Jim Murray
I love & miss you, Jim!

9 April 2005
Birthday of Paul Robeson

1 April 2005
Birthday of Samuel R. Delany (1942-)

In Memoriam: Melvin Russell
22 August 1924 - 1 April 2004

25 March 2005

• The Philosophy of Theory and Practice (revised bibliography)
• Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music (with photo & sound clip link): text link added
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (link added)

21 March 2005
Bobby Short dies (born Sept. 15, 1924)

20 March 2005

• The Street (Composition for Richard Wright) by Romare Bearden (image)
• Humor & Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) (revised)
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)
• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide, new links
• Links page updated

19 March 2005

• The Ins and Outs of Lloyd’s Left Out (review of Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922 by Brian Lloyd) by R. Dumain
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography (revised)

15 March 2005

• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Selected Bibliography

11 March 2005

• After the ‘System’: Philosophy in the Age of the Sciences (Extract) by Gyorgy Markus

9 March 2005

• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

8 March 2005

• Vienna Circle, Karl Popper, Frankfurt School, Marxism, McCarthyism & American Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

7 March 2005
40th Anniversary of Selma Alabama Civil Rights March

• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Extracts by Alfred Sohn-Rethel: 2 sections added plus note

6 March 2005

• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Contents by Alfred Sohn-Rethel
• Intellectual and Manual Labor: Extracts by Alfred Sohn-Rethel

5 March 2005

• Alternatives to Positivism: Contents by Igor Naletov
• The Problem of the Ideal: Contents by David Dubrovsky
• The Problem of the Ideal: Introduction by David Dubrovsky

4 March 2005

• "Games in Esperanto-Land" by R. Dumain

2 March 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Soviet Philosophy from Progress Publishers: Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) (revised)

27 February 2005

• Emergence Blog (new feature)

25 February 2005

• "Hegel's Philosophy as Basis for the Dewey Classification Schedule" by Eugene E. Graziano

12 February 2005

• Philosophy as Autobiography: Alternatives to Subjectivism by R. Dumain
• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

11 February 2005

• Review: Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew by R. Dumain

10 February 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)
• Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (revised)

7 February 2005

• Esperanto Study Guide updated: new links: ateismo

6 February 2005

• Biographical and Psychological Dimensions of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography

26 January 2005

• Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography
• Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism: Selected Bibliography (rev.)
• Philosophy of History of Philosophy & Historiography of Philosophy: Selected Bibliography (revised)

22 January 2005

• "The Universal" by E. V. Ilyenkov

20 January 2005
A day that will live in infamy

• "Matter and Motion" by L. Bazhenov

17 January 2005
Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

• Philosophy and the Division of Labor: Selected Bibliography

5 January 2005

• "The Appearance of Reality and the Reality of Appearance" by David H. DeGrood

4 January 2005
Birthday of C.L.R. James (1901-1989)

3 January 2005
Will Eisner (Born 1917) Dies

30 December 2004
Artie Shaw (Born 1910) Dies

Christmas 2004
20th Anniversary: Departure from Buffalo

19 December 2004

• "Shopping Mall Blues" by R. Dumain

16 December 2004

• "The Asconan Idea in Politics" by Martin Green

15 December 2004
Birthday of L.L. Zamenhof (1859-1917), creator of Esperanto

28 November 2004

• "From the Marxist-Leninist Point of View" by E. V. Ilyenkov

25 November 2004

• "Cognition in the Context of Culture" by Vladislav Lektorsky

24 November 2004

• "The Image of Science and Metaphysics" by Nina Yulina

23 November 2004

• Recenzo Nefinverkita: Evaldo Pauli, Pri Dubo kaj Certeco de R. Dumain

20 November 2004

• "Mark Starr: Socialist Educator": Interview with Martin Lawn
• Intellectual Life in Society ... Bibliography in Progress (revised)

19 November 2004

• "Organized Labor and the Dewey Philosophy" by Mark Starr

12 November 2004

• “Sociolinguist Extends a Hand: Academic Forum on Esperanto at Georgetown University” by R. Dumain

11 November 2004

• Miró graphics changed: home page, site map page, & La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)

10 November 2004

• "La Sunvoranto (por Joan Miró)", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• "Laŭ Afrika Melodio", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• "Ĉi-Stato sub la Ŝtato", Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• Mia Deksepa Jaro, Esperanto poem by R. Dumain
• Images & Sounds page updated
• Miró graphic changed on

8 November 2004

• Eric Dolphy Speaks of Music (with photo & sound clip link)

7 November 2004

• Drinkema kaj Frenezuma Filozofo Ĵŭan Ĝji (in Esperanto)

5 November 2004

• Beyond Deduction and Induction: Towards Perfect Truth According to Edgar Allen Poe: links added
• "Albert Ayler", a poem by Ralph Dumain: links added