Gurdjieff and Hypnosis:
A Hermeneutic Study

Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
Foreword: J. Walter Driscoll
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York, London)
5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 288 pages, 15 figures, index
Release Date: Nov. 24, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-61507-6, ISBN10: 0-230-61507-4

Human enlightenment and liberation, mystics have long advised, require spiritual awakening from the hypnotic sleep of everyday life. This book explores the life and ideas of the enigmatic twentieth century philosopher, mystic, and teacher of esoteric dances George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872?-1949), performing a hermeneutic textual analysis of all his published writings to illuminate the place of hypnosis in his teaching. The hermeneutic approach captures both the aim for an in-depth textual analysis, and the notion that the intent is to interpret the text using its own symbolic and meaning structures.

Systematically explored for the first time is Gurdjieff’s “objective art” of literary hypnotism intended as a major conduit for the transmission of his teachings on the philosophy, theory, and practice of personal self-knowledge and harmonious human development. In the process, the nature and function of the ‘mystical’ shell hiding the rational kernel of Gurdjieff’s teaching are explained—shedding new light on why his mysticism is “mystical,” and Gurdjieff so “enigmatic,” in the first place.

The book includes a Foreword by J. Walter Driscoll, a major bibliographer and scholar of Gurdjieff studies.

“Tamdgidi sets a benchmark for Gurdjieff Studies in relation to two recognized but insufficiently explored areas, his writings as a unified field and his exploitation of hypnosis in its broadest sense. His compact interpretation of Gurdjieff emphasizes—for the first time—a search for meaning based on recognizable keys within about 1,800 pages of Gurdjieff’s four texts as a single body of work, with particular focus on subliminal and subconscious dimensions of impact and interpretation, an approach which might be termed the ‘Hermeneutics of Gurdjieff.’ Thus, Tamdgidi’s work is an important original contribution to the constructive, independent, and critical study of Gurdjieff’s four books. Anyone who has seriously attempted to read Beelzebub’s Tales or Meetings with Remarkable Men can vouch for their intentionally beguiling or ‘hypnotic’ effect. These readers will appreciate Tamdgidi’s interpretive virtuosity and focus—he keeps each tree and the entire forest in sight throughout.”
—From the Foreword by J. Walter Driscoll, independent scholar and bibliographer; editor and contributing author, Gurdjieff: A Reading Guide, 3rd Ed. (2004); contributing editor, Gurdjieff International Review (1997-2001); co-author, Gurdjieff: An Annotated Bibliography (1985).

“A wondrous odyssey and extraordinary argumentation! Nothing in the corpus of writings on Gurdjieff’s works goes near to matching this masterful reading. Each time one looks back into the text, one finds more gold, no dross.”
—Paul Beekman Taylor, Professor Emeritus at the University of Geneva, and author of G. I. Gurdjieff: A New Life; Gurdjieff's Invention of America; The Philosophy of G. I. Gurdjieff; Gurdjieff & Orage: Brothers in Elysium; and Shadows of Heaven: Gurdjieff and Toomer

“In the ocean of literature on Gurdjieff, the brilliant book of Mohammad Tamdgidi has a very special place. It is the first serious academic attempt at a hermeneutics of Gurdjieff’s texts, taking as key the core of Gurdjieff’s teaching—the enneagram. Of course, Gurdjieff’s teaching cannot be understood apart from its practice. But it is also true that this teaching cannot be understood without a rigorous study of the writings of Gurdjieff himself.”
—Basarab Nicolescu, author of Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity

Table of Contents:
Foreword by J. Walter Driscoll * PROLOGUE * Introduction: GURDJIEFF, HYPNOSIS, AND HERMENEUTICS * PHILOSOPHY: ONTOLOGY OF THE HARMONIOUS UNIVERSE * PHILOSOPHY: PSYCHOLOGY OF A “TETARTOCOSMOS” * PHILOSOPHY: EPISTEMOLOGY OF “THREE-BRAINED BEINGS” * THE “ORGAN KUNDABUFFER” THEORY OF HUMAN DISHARMONIZATION * THE PRACTICE OF “HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF MAN” * LIFE IS REAL ONLY THEN, WHEN “I AM” NOT HYPNOTIZED * MEETINGS WITH THE REMARKABLE HYPNOTIST * BEELZEBUB’S HYPNOTIC TALES TO HIS GRANDSON * GURDJIEFF’S ROUNDABOUT YEZIDI CIRCLE * APPENDIX: TEXTUAL CHRONOLOGY OF GURDJIEFF’S LIFE

 

Advancing Utopistics
The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism

Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (Boulder, CO)
Hardcover and Softcover- 336 pages, 21 figures, index.
Publication Date: August 2007/Sofcover 2009
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-59451-386-2
ISBN (hardcover): 9781594513855

Inspired by Immanuel Wallerstein’s Utopistics, this book shows why utopistics cannot advance without sober and self-critical revisitations of its own intellectual heritage. Most sympathetic critiques of Marxism have targeted the shortcomings in its practices and/or theories (including its materialist conception of history), while regarding Marx’s materialist dialectical method as sacred ground. Through a succinct analysis of the inner contradictions of the three practical, theoretical, and methodological tenets of classical Marxism, Tamdgidi argues that the root causes of Marxism’s decline must be sought in Marx’s method itself.

This book concludes with a critical reexamination of the relation of Marxism and utopianism, arguing that Marx and Engels’s debunking of utopianism in contrast to science had more of an ideological function than substantive merits, an ultimate error that set back the cause of advancing alternative strategies for radical social change for decades.

A substantial methodological appendix is devoted to the exposition of a non-reductive, creative dialectical method more conducive to advancing utopistics.

"In Tamdgidi's critical study of Marxism and its troubled relationship to utopianism, 'the pull between what is and what should be' is re-explored creatively, resulting in a new and promising utopystics, shorn of limiting dualisms and conceits. An equally rigorous and hopeful book."
–Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Tamdgidi does the field of Marxist critique a great service…. Tamdgidi's suggestion – that utopistics must be a creative endeavor to which all forms of knowledge and experience, Western and Eastern, scientific or otherwise, can and should critically contribute – is a major advance in the field of world-systems studies."
–Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

“The argument of Dr. Tamdgidi’s book, that anti-utopianism in the form of radical materialism of the later Marx jeopardizes the creative dimension of dialectical thought, offers a critique and theoretical response rooted in the complex forces of the self as lived. The work is a contribution in Marxist social thought, in that it is a part of the stream that offers arguments for reconsidering the early Marx, but it is also a work in agency-oriented dialectical social thought.”
—Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and the Jay Newman Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College

“All of Professor Tamdgidi’s broad knowledge in world-history and East/West epistemologies are powerfully condensed in Advancing Utopistics. His book is a tour-de-force in several fields of scholarship such as world-systems, sociology of knowledge, and Marxist sociology, recasting both Mannheim’s and Wallerstein’s concept of utopia. Here he develops a radical critique of what he calls the three component parts and errors of Marxism … His recasting of the dialectical method beyond the binary of idealism vs. materialism is an original and crucial contribution to sociological theory.”
—Ramón Grosfoguel, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction : Advancing utopistics 1
Ch. 1: Dictatorship of the "proletariat"? 16
Ch. 2: Economically inevitable transition? 45
Ch. 3: Either idealist or materialist dialectics? 73
Ch. 4: The opposition of idealist and materialist outlooks 96
Ch. 5: The neither idealist nor materialist Marx 126
Ch. 6: The component errors as a whole 151
Ch. 7: Marxism and utopia 181
Conclusion : Toward utopystics 212
Appendix: The creative dialectical method 226

I Interpreting Dialectics Dialectically 226
II Splitting the Creative Research Labor Process 230
III Dialectical Methodology: Dialectics of Dialectical Ontology and Epistemology 243
IV Dialectics of the Creative Research Labor Process as a Whole 283
V Dialectics of the Development of "Dialectics": A Historical Outline 287
VI The Creative Dialectical Method 296

Bibliography 299
Index 311

HUMAN ARCHITECTURE:
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Editor: Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Massachusetts Boston

This journal is abstracted in the Sociological Abstractss, and included in EBSCO's SocINDEX with Full-Text and ProQuest's "Social Sciences Journals" full-text database.

For table of contents of previous issues see here.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009 (release date: Nov. 24, 2009). Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007 (2009, softcover edition). Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism. Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers.

Doctoral Dissertation

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. “Mysticism and Utopia: Towards the Sociology of Self-Knowledge and Human Architecture (A Study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim),” Ph.D. Dissertation: SUNY-Binghamton. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, Inc.

Book Chapters

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (Forthcoming). “Beyond Islamophobia and Islamophilia as Western Epistemic Racisms: Revisiting the Runnymede Trust Definition in a World-History Context.” Chapter in a collection titled De-Constructing Islamophobia: Immigration, Globalization and Constructing Otherness edited by Hatem Bazian.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (Forthcoming). “Decolonizing Selves: The Subtler Violences of Colonialism and Racism in Fanon, Said, and Anzaldúa.” In Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy edited by Elizabeth A. Hoppe and Tracey Nicholls. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (Forthcoming). “The Simultaneity of Self and Global Transformations: Bridging with Anzaldúa’s Liberating Vision.” In Bridging: How and Why Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own. Academics, Activists, and Artists Share their Testimonios, co-edited by AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López. Texas: University of Texas Press.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (2009). “Rethinking Diversity Amid Pedagogical Flexibility: Fostering the Scholarships of Learning and Teaching of the Sociological Imagination.” In Making Connections: Self-Study & Social Change, co-edited by Kathleen Pithouse (McGill), Claudia Michell (McGill), and Lebo Moletsane (South African Human Sciences Research Council). New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (2009). “Utopystics and the Asiatic Modes of Liberation: Gurdjieffian Contributions to the Sociological Imaginations of Inner and Global World-Systems.” Pp. 139-163 in Asia and the Transformation of the World-Systems, edited by Ganesh K. Trichur. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (2008).“From Utopistics to Utopystics: Integrative Reflections on Potential Contributions of Mysticism to World-Systems Analyses and Praxes of Historical Alternatives.” Pp. 202-219 in Islam and the Orientalist World-System, co-edited by Khaldoun Samman and Mazhar Al-Zo’by. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004. Online publication of article-length excerpt from the second (“Gurdjieff and Mysticism: The Archaeology of an Eastern Teaching”) chapter of my dissertation titled "Mysticism and Utopia: Toward the Sociology of Self-Knowledge and Human Architecture (A Study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim" (SUNY-Binghamton, 2002), published in Gurdjieff: A Reading Guide (edited by J. Walter Driscoll), Third Edition. http://www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com. 29 pages.

Articles:

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (2008). 2008. “’I Change Myself, I Change the World’: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Sociological Imagination in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.” Humanity & Society, v. 32, n. 4, 311-335.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. (2008). “Public Sociology and the Sociological Imagination: Revisiting Burawoy’s Sociology Types.” Humanity & Society, v. 32, n. 2, 2008.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. “Abu Ghraib as a Microcosm: The Strange Face of Empire as a Lived Prison.” Sociological Spectrum, v. 27, n. 1, 29-55.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. “Toward a Dialectical Conception of Imperiality: The Transitory (Heuristic) Nature of the Primacy of Analyses of Economies in World-Historical Social Science.” Review (Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations). v. XXIX, n. 4, 291-328.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2005. “Orientalist and Liberating Discourses of East-West Difference: Revisiting Edward Said and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 7, ns. 1&2, Spring/Fall, 187-201.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004/2005. “Working Outlines for the Sociology of Self-Knowledge.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. III, ns. 1&2, (Fall/Spring), 123-133.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004. “Freire Meets Gurdjieff and Rumi: Toward the Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Oppressive Selves.” Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 6, n. 2, Fall, 165-185.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004. “Rethinking Sociology: Self, Knowledge, Practice, and Dialectics in Transitions to Quantum Social Science.” Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 6, n. 1, Spring, 61-81.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2003. “Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim: Contested Utopistics of Self and Society in a World-History Context,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. II, n. 1, Spring, 102-120.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. “Building A Sociology of Self-Knowledge: One Brick At A Time.” Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, v. 14, Winter. American Sociol. Assoc. URL: http://www.cla.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/comphist/chs02Win.html#tamdgidi

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. “Ideology and Utopia in Mannheim: Towards the Sociology of Self Knowledge.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. I, n. 1, Spring, 120-140.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2001. “Open the Antisystemic Movements: The Book, the Concept, and the Reality.” Review (Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations), XXIV, 2, Summer, 299-336.

Edited Volumes

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Editor. With Issue Co-Editors: Anna Beckwith, Elora Chowdhury, Leila Farsakh, Askold Melnyczuk, Erica Mena, Dorothy Nelson, Joyce Peseroff, and Rajini Srikanth. Issue Theme: “’If I touch the depth of your heart…’: The Human Promise of Poetry in Memories of Mahmoud Darwish.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, Special Issue.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Editor. With Issue Co-Editors: Terry-Ann Jones and Eric Mielants. Issue Theme: “Migrating Identities and Perspectives: Latin America and the Caribbean in Domestic and Global Contexts.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 4, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Editor. Issue Theme: “Sociological Re-Imaginations in and of Universities.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 3, Summer.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Editor. With Issue Co-Editors: Lewis R. Gordon, Ramón Grosfoguel, and Eric Mielants. Issue Theme: Historicizing Anti-Semitism: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Post-September 11th New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: the Case of Anti-Semitism, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris, June 29-30, 2007.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 2, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Editor. With Issue Co-Editors: Jay Dee and Vivian Zamel. Issue Theme: “Teaching Transformations 2009: Contributions from the Annual Conferences of the New England Center for Inclusive Teaching (NECIT) and the Center for the Improvement of Teaching (CIT) at UMass Boston.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 1, Winter.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. Editor. With Guest Co-Editors: Maureen Scully and Esther Kingston-Mann. Issue Theme: “Microcosms of Hope: Celebrating Student Scholars: Award Winning and Honoree Contributions, 2006-7—Esther Kingston-Mann Student Achievement Awards for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VI, n. 4, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. Editor. Issue Theme: “Thich Nhat Hanh’s Sociological Imagination: Essays and Commentaries on Engaged Buddhism (Plus Proceedings from the Panels on “Buddhist Contributions to Social Justice” at the Fifth International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of Vesak held in Hanoi, Vietnam—May 2008).” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VI, n. 3, Summer.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. Editor. With Guest Co-Editor: Anna Beckwith. Issue Theme: “Sociological Imaginations from the Classroom (Plus a Symposium on “Sociology of Science Perspectives on Malfunctions of Science and Peer Reviewing”). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VI, n. 2, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. Editor. With Guest Co-Editor: Vivian Zamel. Issue Theme: “Teaching Transformation: Contributions from the January 2008 Annual Conference on Teaching for Transformation—Center for the Improvement of Teaching, at UMass Boston.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VI, n. 1, Winter.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. Editor. Issue Theme: “Reflections on Fanon: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Social Theory Forum, March 27-28, 2007, UMass Boston: The Violences of Colonialism and Racism, Inner and Global: Conversations with Frantz Fanon on the Meaning of Human Emancipation” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. V, Special Double-Issue, Summer.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. Editor. Issue Theme: “Insiders/Outsiders: Voices from the Classroom” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. V, n. 2, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. Editor. (Guest Co-Editors: Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants.) Issue Theme: “Othering Islam: Proceedings of the International Conference on 'The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe and the United States: The Case of Islamophobia (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, June 2-3, 2006)” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. V, n. 1, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. Editor. Issue Theme: “Re-Membering Anzaldúa: Human Rights, Borderlands, and the Poetics of Applied Social Theory: Engaging with Gloria Anzaldúa in Self and Global Transformations”(Social Theory Forum 2006, UMass Boston),” in Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. IV, Special Issue, Summer.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2005/6. Editor. Issue Theme: “Scholarships of Learning,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. IV, ns. 1&2, Fall/Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2005. Guest Editor. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Social Theory Forum held at UMass Boston, April 6-7 (topic: “Theories and Praxes of Difference: Revisiting Edward Said in the Age of New Globalizations”), in Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 7, ns. 1&2, Spring/Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004. Guest Editor. Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Social Theory Forum held at UMass Boston, April 7 (topic: “Liberating Social Theory: Inspirations from Paulo Freire for Learning, Teaching, and Advancing Social Theory in Applied Settings”), in Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 6, n. 2, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004/5. Editor. Issue Theme: “Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Course Topic as well as Pedagogical Strategy.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. III, ns. 1&2, Fall/Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004. Guest Editor. Discourse of Sociological Practice, v. 6, n. 1, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2003/4. Editor. Issue Theme: “Critical Theories in Applied Settings.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. II, n. 2, Fall/Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2003. Editor. Issue Theme. “Social Theories, Student Realities.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. II, n. 1, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. Editor. Issue Theme: “Spiritual Renaissances & Social Reconstructions.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. I, n. 2, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. Editor. Issue Theme: “Life Courses & Social Policies.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. I, n. 1, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 1997. Editor. 'I' in the World-System: Stories from an Odd Sociology Class. Selected Student Writings, Soc. 280Z: Sociology of Knowledge: Mysticism, Utopia, & Science. (A class-book collectively self-published by my students at Binghamton University.) Limited edition, Binghamton: Crumbling Façades Press (student-created publisher name), hard cover. Medford, MA: Okcir Press.

Book Reviews

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. Review of The Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology: Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge. By Clayton W. Dumont Jr. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. In Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews (a publication of the American Sociological Association), v. 38, n. 3(May), 270-272.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. Review of Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation in the Writings of Max Weber. By Andrew M. Koch. New York: Lexington Books, A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. In Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews (a publication of the American Sociological Association)., v. 36, n. 4(July): 386-387.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. Review of Magic and Witchcraft: Contemporary North America. Edited by Helen A. Berger. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. In Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews (a publication of the American Sociological Association), v. 35, n. 3 (May), 297-298.

Editor's Notes

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. “Editors’ Note: Mahmoud Darwish’s Parting Gift.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, Special Issue.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. “Editor’s Note: Migrating Identities and Perspectives.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 4, Fall.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. “Editor’s Note: Sociological Imaginations in and of Universities.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 3, Summer.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. “Editor’s Note: Historicizing Anti-Semitism.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 2, Spring.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2009. “Editors’ Note” (with Jay Dee and Vivian Zamel). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. VII, n. 1, Winter.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. “Editor’s Note: Microcosms of Hope.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. VI, Issue 4 (Fall), vii-viii.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. “Editor’s Note: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Sociological Imagination.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. VI, Issue 3 (Summer), vii-x.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. “Editor’s Note: Toward Sociological Re-Imaginations of Science and Peer Reviewing.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. VI, Issue 2 (Spring), vii-x.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2008. (With Vivian Zamel). “Editors’ Note: Teaching Transformations.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. VI, Issue 1 (Winter), vii-viii.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. “Editor's Note: Reflections on Fanon.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. V, Special Double-Issue (Summer), ix-x.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2007. “Editor's Note: My Architect (1930-2007).” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. V, Issue 2 (Spring), vii-viii.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. “Editor's Note: Probing Islamophobia.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. V, Issue 1 (Fall), vii-xi.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2006. “Editor's Note: Re-Membering Anzaldúa.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. IV, Special Issue (Summer), ix-xii.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2005/6. “Editor's Note: Peer Reviewing the Peer Review Process.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. IV, ns. 1&2 (Fall/Spring), vii-xv.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2004/5. “Editor's Note: Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Course Topic As Well As Pedagogical Strategy.” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. v. III, ns. 1&2 (Fall/Spring), vii-ix.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2003/4. “Editor's Note: A Welcoming Statement to the Editorial Advisory Board,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. II, n. 2, Fall/Spring, vii-ix.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2003. “Editor's Note: Social Theories, Student Realities,” (Review of the book Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students, co-edited by Esther Kingston-Mann and Tim Sieber, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001). Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self- Knowledge, v. II, n. 1, Spring, v-xii.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. “Editor's Note: Spiritual Renaissances & Social Reconstructions,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, v. I, n. 2, Fall, v-vi.

Tamdgidi, Mohammad H. 2002. “Editor's Note: Life Courses and Social Policies,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self- Knowledge, v. I, n. 1, Spring, v-vi.

Instructor, Editor, and Contributor
"I" in the World-System:
Stories from an Odd Sociology Class
Selected Student Writings:
Soc 280Z-Sociology of Knowledge: Mysticism, Science, and Utopia,
Binghamton University, Spring 1997

Limited Edition | 5.5x8.5 | 334 pages.
Crumbling Facades Press (imprint coined in
the class of Spring 1997, by student Ingrid Heller)
(Originally printed in hard-cover. Limited copies available in softcover.)