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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brundage, Slim. From Bughouse Square to the Beat Generation: Selected Ravings. Edited & introduced by Franklin Rosemont. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1997.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982.
(Click here for review)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself. Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 1992.
(Click here to retrieve this text online)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thometz, Kurt. Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English. New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. See review by John Strausbaugh.

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

PROLETARIAN PHILOSOPHY

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

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

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

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

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

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

PHILOSOPHY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR

Adorno, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics. Translated by E.B. Ashton. New York: The Seabury Press, 1973.

Oizerman, Theodore. Dialectical Materialism and the History of Philosophy: Essays on the History of Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982.

Oizerman, T.I. The Main Trends in Philosophy: a Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.

Oizerman, Theodor. Problems of the History of Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973.

Oizerman, T.I.; Bogomolov, A.S. Principles of the Theory of the Historical Process in Philosophy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986.

Peterson, Richard T. Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Ree, Jonathan; Ayers, Michael; Westoby, Adam. Philosophy & Its Past. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1978. (Philosophy Now)

Sohn-Rethel, Alfred. Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1977.

Thomson, George. The First Philosophers: Studies in Ancient Greek Society. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1972.

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

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: SPECIAL PERSPECTIVES

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

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

Gedo, Andras. Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1982.

Gedö, András. "Why Marx or Nietzsche?", Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 11, no. 3, 1998, pp. 331–346. Click here to read article offsite.

Hamlyn, D.W. Being a Philosopher: The History of a Practice. London; New York: Routledge, 1992.

Lukacs, Georg. The Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer. London: The Merlin Press, 1980.

Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor. System and History in Philosophy: On the Unity of Thought and Time, Text and Explanation, Solitude and Dialogue, Rhetoric and Truth in the Practice of Philosophy and its History. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
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Ree, Jonathan. I See a Voice: Deafness, Language and the Senses—A Philosophical History. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 1999.

Skillen, Anthony. Ruling Illusions: Philosophy and the Social Order. Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1977. (Philosophy Now)

Sloterdijk, Peter. Critique of Cynical Reason. Translation by Michael Eldred; foreword by Andreas Huyssen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (Theory and History of Literature; v. 40)

Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.

Dickey, Laurence. Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770-1807. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. (Ideas in Context)

Ripalda, Jose Maria. The Divided Nation: The Roots of a Bourgeois Thinker: G.W.F. Hegel. Assen; Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 1977.

T.A. (Thomas Alfred) JACKSON

Jackson, T.A. Charles Dickens: The Progress of a Radical. Foreword by John Murray. New York: International Publishers, 1987.

Jackson, T.A. Dialectics: The Logic of Marxism, and Its Critics--An Essay in Exploration. New York: International Publishers, 1936.

Jackson, T.A. Solo Trumpet: Some Memories of Socialist Agitation and Propaganda. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953.

AFRICAN AMERICAN / BLACK AUTODIDACTICISM, EDUCATION, INTELLECTUAL LIFE

Allen, Norm R., Jr. African-American Humanism: An Anthology. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.

Ards, Angela. "Black Bibliophiles: Professional and Amateur Collectors Indulge a Passion for Black History and Culture", QBR: The Black Book Review, March/April 1999, pp. 1-2, 29.
See QBR on the web

Blockson, Charles L. "Damn Rare": The Memoirs of an African-American Bibliophile. Tracy, CA: Quantum Leap Publisher, Inc., 1998.

Cain, Rudolph A. "Andragogy and the Education of African American Adults, in: The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education, edited by Leonard Harris (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999), pp. 251-262.

Carby, Hazel V. "The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston", in: New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God, edited by Michael Awkward (Cambridge University Press, 1999 [The American Novel]), pp. 71-93.

Childs, John Brown. Leadership, Conflict, and Cooperation in Afro-American Social Thought. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Diedrich, Maria. Love across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

Du Bois, W. E. B. The Education of Black People; Ten Critiques, 1906-1960. Edited by Herbert Aptheker. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973.

Edgcomb, Gabrielle Simon. From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges. Foreword by John Hope Franklin. Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1993. Now a PBS documentary.

Franklin, John Hope. "The Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar", in: Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), pp. 295-308.

Guy. Talmadge C. "Adult Education and Democratic Values: Alain Locke on the Nature and Purpose of Adult Education for African Americans", in: The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education, edited by Leonard Harris (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999), pp. 219-234.

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

Jackson, John G. "The Black Atheists of The Harlem Renaissance: (1917-1928)", talk given at 1984 American Atheists convention. Click here to see article.

Jackson, John G. Hubert Henry Harrison: The Black Socrates. Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1987.

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

Perry, Jeffrey B. "Hubert Harrison: A Brief Sketch for Black History Month", The Black World Today, 18 February 1999.

Perry, Jeffrey B., ed. A Hubert Harrison Reader. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.

Perry, Jeffrey B. "An Introduction to Hubert Harrison: 'The Father of Harlem Radicalism'", Souls, vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2000, pp. 38-54.

Porter, Dorothy P. "The Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846", Journal of Negro Education, 5, (Oct. 1936), pp. 558-576.

Ragland, John. "No More Ham", American Atheist, February 1987. Click here to see article.

Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector. Detroit: The New York Public Library & Wayne State University Press, 1989.

Schott, John. "'We Are Revealing a Hand That Will Later Reveal Us': Notes on Form and Harmony in Coltrane's Work", in: Arcana: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn (New York: Granary Books/Hips Road, 2000), pp. 345-366. Click here for Dumain review.

Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney; Coates, W. Paul; Battle, Thomas C. Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1990.

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