[lbo-talk] Hofstadter

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 10 20:58:34 PST 2006


Doug asked:


>Is it a Cox-like shyness about generalizing about patterns
>of thought, because everything is so incommensurate?

From my experience as a history grad student, it's more an apolitical disinclination to speculate about what causes major changes. I think the last big debate over a question like that among historians was maybe the Brenner (from Robert Brenner) debate about the transiton from feudalism to capitalism.



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