Toward a Cosmopolitan Syllabus for General Emancipation & Individual Flourishing

Several times a year I post an updated list of the (now 119) bibliographies freely available (for viewing or download) on my Academia page, the start of the school year, such as it is during the pandemic, being one of those times. It is easier to see the list in toto this way because it takes a bit of time to scroll down the Academia page site to view what’s there. I’ve also included a separate list of my writing (published and unpublished, although not all of the former is found here) on a variety of topics as well as the “study guides” for several religious worldviews (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Daoism, and Confucianism) I used to give to my students at Santa Barbara City College (there is not a ‘study guide’ for Buddhism, because I used to provide a chapter from a book introducing fundamental Buddhist ideas as well as a short handout).

• Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Addiction
• Africana & African American Philosophy
• After Slavery & Reconstruction: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights, Freedom, and Equality in the U.S.
• Salvador Allende and the Quest for Socialism
• Alternative and Complementary Medicine
• R. Ambedkar
• American Indian Law (this list goes considerably beyond ‘law’)
• Samir Amin (3 September 1931 - 12 August 2018)
• Analogy & Metaphor
• Anarchism: Philosophy & Praxis
• Animal Ethics, Rights, and Law
• The Arab World: Modern & Post-Modern
• Attica Prison Uprising (September 9, 1971 – September 13, 1971): Notes, Timeline, and Essential Reading
• The Bedouin
• Beyond Capitalist Agribusiness: Toward Agroecology & Food Justice
• Beyond Capitalist-Attenuated Time: Freedom, Leisure, and Self-Realization
• Beyond Inequality: Toward the Globalization of Welfare, Well-Being and Human Flourishing
• Beyond Punitive Capitalist and Liberal Society
• Bioethics
• Biological Psychiatry, Sullied Psychology and Pharmaceutical Reason
• The Black Athlete and Sports
• Blacks and Food Justice: A Guide to Resources
• Blacks on the (Radical) Left
• The Black Panther Party
• On Boxing — Sweet Science & Brutal Agon
• Buddhism
• Buddhism & Psychoanalysis
• Buddhist Art
• Capital Punishment
• Capitalist and Other Distortions of Democratic Education — From Etiological Diagnosis to Therapeutic Regimen
• César Chávez & the United Farm Workers
• Christianity
• Classical Chinese Worldviews
• Communism in India
• Comparative Law
• Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence
• Constitutionalism
• Constitutionalism in India
• Contract Theory & Promises
• Criminal Law: Municipal (Domestic) and International
• The Cuban Revolution
• Death & Dying
• Democratic Theory
• Detroit: Labor & Industrialization, Race & Politics, Rebellion & Resurgence
• Diseases, Epidemics, and Pandemics
• Dreams and Dreaming
• Ecological & Environmental Politics, Philosophies, and Worldviews
• Elections and Voting
• Emotions
• Ethical Perspectives on Science & Technology
• Famine: History, Causes, and Consequences
• Frantz Fanon
• Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychology
• The Life, Work, & Legacy of Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Genocide
• Global Distributive Justice
• The Great Depression & The New Deal
• Toward Green Socialist Democracy (Ecosocialism)
• The Haitian Revolution
• Health: Law, Ethics & Social Justice
• Hinduism
• Human Nature and Personal Identity
• Human Rights
• Immigration & Refugees: Ethics, Law and Politics
• Indic (or Indian) Philosophy
• Individual & Shared Responsibility
• International Criminal Law
• International Law
• Modern Iran
• Islam, the Arts, and Aesthetic Experience
• Islam and Jurisprudence
• Islam & Muslims in the United States
• Islamic Studies
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• The Jain Tradition
• L.R. James: Marxist Humanist & Afro-Trinidadian Socialist
• Judaism
• Law and Literature
• The History, Theory & Praxis of the Left in the 1960s
• Toward an Understanding of Liberalism
• Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
• Marxism
• Marxism (or ‘the Left’), Art & Aesthetics
• Marxism and Freudian Psychology
• Toward a Marxist Theory of International Law
• Mass Media
• Otto Neurath & Red Vienna: Mutual Philosophical, Scientific and Socialist Fecundity
• Nonviolent Resistance in the Middle East (with an emphasis on the Palestinian struggle)
• Nuclear Weapons
• Pan-Africanism, Black Internationalism, & Black Cosmopolitanism
• Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
• Philosophy, Psychology, & Methodology for the Social Sciences
• Philosophy & Racism
• Progressive Philosophy of Education and Pedagogical Practices: liberté, egalité, fraternité in light of participatory and deliberative democracy
• The Prophet Muhammad
• The Puerto Rican Struggle for Independence & Self-Determination
• Punishment and Prison
• The Qur’ān (Translations, Commentaries, Studies)
• Radical Catholicism (The Catholic Worker Movement, Liberation Theology…)
• Toward a “Realist” Social and Political Psychology
• Science and Religion
• Science and Technology
• Slavery
• Social Security & the Welfare State
• South African Liberation Struggles
• Sufism
• Sullied (Natural & Social) Sciences
• Terrorism
• Theology and Philosophy in Islamic Traditions
• Torture: moral, legal, and political dimensions
• Transitional Justice
• Utopian Imagination, Thought and Praxis
• The Varna & Caste System in India
• Vietnam War
• Violent Conflict & the Laws of War
• Women as Intellectuals in the European Enlightenment
• Workers, the World of Work, and Labor Law
• Zionist Ideologies

Essays, Papers, and “Study Guides,” (some published, although most of what little I’ve published—largely encyclopedia entries—is not available on my Academia page):

• “Act Naturally!” “Say What?”
• Advaita Vedānta Philosophy: a short introduction
• Analogy and Metaphor: An Idiosyncratic Introduction
• Bombing French Indochina during the U.S. War in Vietnam: a précis
• Book Review: Oliver Leaman’s Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction (2004) Philosophy East and West, Vol. 57, No. 2, (2007), 271-275.
• Book Review: Martin D. Yaffe, ed., Judaism and Environmental Ethics (2001), Philosophy East and West, Vol. 57, No. 3 (2007), 400-405.
• Buddhism and Psychoanalysis: Two rather different “therapies of desire” fashioned for the relief of suffering
• Christianity: study guide
• Confucianism: study guide
• Daoism: study guide
• Democracy and Islam
• Free Association in Psychoanalysis and “Willing What Cannot Be Willed”
• Friedrich Engels, the English working class, and incipient social epidemiology
• Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory and therapy: An introduction to its therapeutic model and “science of subjectivity”
• The Golden Rule
• Hinduism: study guide
• Iran’s Nuclear Power Program and the Question of Nuclear Weapons: Articles and Blog Posts (this material is not written by yours truly)
• Islam: study guide
• Judaism: study guide
• Marxist existentialism and humanism or spirituality: a preliminary apologia
• On moral philosophy-or ethics-and moral psychology (and the general irrelevance of scientific or academic psychology)
• Natural Law “externalism” v. Natural Law as “moral aspiration”
• New Age nonsense and the “spiritual dimension”
• Notes on Science and the Sciences
• The pathology of normalcy ... and the quest for a sane society
• Toward a Manifesto for a People's (i.e., democratic) Law School
• Poetry and Islam: An Introduction
• Prosoche in the Daily Life of a Salonnière in the French Enlightenment
• Toward a Philosophically Sensitive Definition of Public Health Law
• Social Norms and Legal Theory
• Toward Socialism
• The Legal Doctrine of Stare Decisis and Rationality
• Therapies of Desire: Introspection in Buddhist and Psychoanalytic Psychologies
• Donald Trump and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

All of the above available here.