Reason & Society

Several of the links to web sites other than my own listed in my post  Daoism update of 1 October 2010 are defunct, so here is my updated ...

" Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya: A Centenary Salute to Multifaceted Philosopher " by SK Pande, NewsClick, 05 Nov 2018 "A hu...

"I have never felt so much the value of abstract things, of theory seen in its proper relation to practice, than just now. I think I ...

I have blogged about the Yugoslav Marxist Humanist Praxis philosophers and documented their work on my web site: Yugoslav Praxis Philosop...

Max Horkheimer's take on Montaigne is far harsher than that of Ivan Sviták . (See previous post and Sviták's essay on Montaigne ....

Once again: Sviták, Ivan. The Dialectic of Common Sense: The Master Thinkers . Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979. This...

Continuing on this work by Christopher Caudwell : Scenes and Actions: Unpublished Manuscripts , selected, edited, and introduced by Jean ...

I have blogged here before about Christopher Caudwell . As I also mentioned, I used the title of his essay collection Studies in a Dying C...

New on my website: Sviták, Ivan. Baron d’Holbach, Philosopher of Common Sense , translated by Jarmila Veltrusky. Chico: California State...

I wrote the following on 1 June 1015; only a few words have been changed here. I fortuitously stumbled on this today, coincidentally after ...

This is the final installment of my review of  A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom...

My running commentary on Dostoevsky reflects what I have assimilated at the moment of writing and my perspective changes with what I learn. ...

The sphere of psychology, in which such projects take up residence, though with little success, is not exempt from the crisis of lit...

This installment is part 3 of Trotsky vs Dostoevsky, a unit of the larger project of analyzing the ideological structure of Dostoevsky...

Actually, this is Trotsky vs Dostoevsky, part 2, but it's all part of the larger trajectory. So this time, here are the other reference...

In an old post on Trotsky on religion , a quote from Trotsky mentions Dostoevsky. Here I will extract a short quote from the longer quote: ...

Joseph Hansen, " Corliss Lamont on Humanism ," International Socialist Review , Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 1958, pp. 153-155. I have b...

My previous post was heavy on the abstract and conceptual. More needs to be said about David Hoelscher's essay Atheism and the Class ...

As I do not regularly follow the blogosphere, I missed out on this article, which I was informed of only last week: Counterpunched: We Hav...

I have written about or documented Spinoza-related materials in various cyberlocales (this one included), and it occurs to me I should link ...