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Fri Mar 31 17:18:27 2006
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Dear Robin Neill, 
 
Yes, at the very end, after being pretty much right all along, I think you 
went wrong. History, where I teach, is increasingly a province of 
wonderland, where work is actually play, and the responsibility for thesis 
and argument dissolves into the speculative creation of wonder (where 
Aristotle, I think, said philosophy begins). From what I can tell of 
Political Science, it is trying hardest to be like a "positive science" 
like Economics; thus "area specialists" disappear. 
 
J. Womack 
 
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