Reading Lists and Sundry Material

Several times a year I post an updated list of the bibliographies available on my Academia page (the start of the school year for many being one of those times). I have also included a separate list of my writing on a variety of topics as well as the “study guides” for several religious worldviews I used to give to my students. All of the material is in alphabetical order on the site, save the study guides, which are found at the bottom of the page.

1. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Addiction
2. Africana & African American Philosophy
3. After Slavery & Reconstruction: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights, Freedom, and Equality in the U.S.
4. Salvador Allende and the Quest for Socialism
5. R. Ambedkar
6. American Indian Law (this list goes considerably beyond ‘law’)
7. Samir Amin (3 September 1931 - 12 August 2018)
8. Analogy & Metaphor
9. Anarchism: Philosophy & Praxis
10. Animal Ethics, Rights, and Law
11. The Arab World: Modern & Post-Modern
12. Attica Prison Uprising (September 9, 1971 – September 13, 1971): Notes, Timeline, and Essential Reading
13. The Bedouin
14. Beyond Capitalist Agribusiness: Toward Agroecology & Food Justice
15. Beyond Capitalist-Attenuated Time: Freedom, Leisure, and Self-Realization
16. Beyond Inequality: Toward the Globalization of Welfare, Well-Being and Human Flourishing
17. Beyond Punitive Capitalist and Liberal Society
18. Bioethics
19. Biological Psychiatry, Sullied Psychology and Pharmaceutical Reason
20. The Black Athlete and Sports
21. Blacks and Food Justice: A Guide to Resources
22. Blacks on the (Radical) Left
23. The Black Panther Party
24. On Boxing — Sweet Science & Brutal Agon
25. Buddhism
26. Buddhism & Psychoanalysis
27. Capital Punishment
28. Capitalist and Other Distortions of Democratic Education — From Etiological Diagnosis to Therapeutic Regimen
29. César Chávez & the United Farm Workers
30. Christianity
31. Classical Chinese Worldviews
32. Communism in India
33. Comparative Law
34. Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence
35. Constitutionalism
36. Constitutionalism in India
37. Contract Theory & Promises
38. Criminal Law: Municipal (Domestic) and International
39. Death & Dying
40. Democratic Theory
41. Detroit: Labor & Industrialization, Race & Politics, Rebellion & Resurgence
42. Dreams and Dreaming
43. Ecological & Environmental Politics, Philosophies, and Worldviews
44. Emotions
45. Ethical Perspectives on Science & Technology
46. Famine: History, Causes, and Consequences
47. Frantz Fanon
48. Freudian and Post-Freudian Psychology
49. The Life, Work, & Legacy of Mohandas K. Gandhi
50. Genocide
51. Global Distributive Justice
52. The Great Depression & The New Deal
53. The Haitian Revolution
54. Health: Law, Ethics & Social Justice
55. Hinduism
56. The History, Theory & Praxis of the Left in the 1960s
57. Human Nature and Personal Identity
58. Human Rights
59. Ethics, Law, and Politics of Immigration & Refugees
60. Indic (or Indian) Philosophy
61. Individual & Shared Responsibility
62. International Criminal Law
63. International Law
64. Modern Iran
65. Islam, the Arts, and Aesthetic Experience
66. Islam and Jurisprudence
67. Islam & Muslims in the United States
68. Islamic Studies
69. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
70. The Jain Tradition
71. L.R. James: Marxist Humanist & Afro-Trinidadian Socialist
72. Judaism
73. Law and Literature
74. Toward an Understanding of Liberalism
75. Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
76. Marxism
77. Marxism (or ‘the Left’), Art & Aesthetics
78. Marxism and Freudian Psychology
79. Toward a Marxist Theory of International Law
80. Mass Media
81. Nonviolent Resistance in the Middle East (with an emphasis on the Palestinian struggle)
82. Nuclear Weapons
83. Pan-Africanism, Black Internationalism, & Black Cosmopolitanism
84. Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
85. Philosophy, Psychology, & Methodology for the Social Sciences
86. Philosophy & Racism
87. The Prophet Muhammad
88. Toward a “Realist” Social and Political Psychology
89. The Puerto Rican Struggle for Independence & Self-Determination
90. Punishment and Prison
91. The Qur’ān (Translations, Commentaries, Studies)
92. Radical Catholicism (The Catholic Worker Movement, Liberation Theology…)
93. Science and Religion
94. Science and Technology
95. Slavery
96. Social Security & the Welfare State
97. South African Liberation Struggles
98. Sufism
99. Sullied (Natural & Social) Sciences
100. Terrorism
101. Theology and Philosophy in Islamic Traditions
102. Torture: moral, legal, and political dimensions
103. Transitional Justice
104. Utopian Imagination, Thought & Praxis
105. The Varna & Caste System in India
106. Vietnam War
107. Violent Conflict & the Laws of War
108. Women as Intellectuals in the European Enlightenment
109. Workers, the World of Work, and Labor Law
110. 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.
• Christianity: study guide
• Confucianism: study guide
• Daoism: study guide
• Democracy and Islam
• Free Association in Psychoanalysis and “Willing What Cannot Be Willed”
• A summary introduction to the Freudian psychoanalytic model of therapeutic philosophy and psychology
• 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
• Natural Law “externalism” v. Natural Law as “moral aspiration”
• The pathology of normalcy ... and the quest for a sane society
• 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