================= HES POSTING ================= E. Roy Weintraub wrote: > > SSCI have spawned interesting research literatures. The rhetoric of > science itself is intertwined with such questions of legitimizing > some, but not other, modes of argumentation. With Roy's comment above and the discussion of Joan Robinson's failure to cite Marx, I am reminded of a paper I wrote as a graduate student for Eric Hobsbawm. The paper was actually an analysis of Hobsbawm's writing style (does the word foolhardy immediately come to your mind?). Anyway, I focused on an early paper of Hobsbawm's, one where he set out to historically "prove" a Marxian thesis. However, Hobsbawm only cites Marx twice--and very superficially--and I pointed out that Hobsbawm did not resort to the use of "commemoratio" in this particular paper. In his notes on my paper, he wrote that "Yes, that was quite deliberate as a strategy. But it also indicated that I didn't want to argue by the appeal to canonical authority." So, failure to cite does not necessarily represent moral failure, but involves a variety of other factors--historical, rhetorical, sociological, et al. Jonathon E. Mote ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]