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Despite my negativity above, I feel that the project is admirable in some ways:
the dedication to this work, and the level of detail in explicating it, is
evidence of an enormous investment of time, energy, and intelligence.
Unfortunately, this sort of effort does not translate into a scholarly
monograph of high quality. The problem is that a scholar must know his or her
public and be attuned to what sort of arguments / theories and what level of
detail this public will respond to. This is a question of rhetoric, more than
anything else. How do you convince a reader of the importance of the subject
matter and of the relevance of a set of theories? You cannot take these things for
granted.
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