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I offer here a new paradigm for doing the thesis. Any senior who masters it and takes it to heart will have a much better time than the rest of us, and will probably graduate summa, win a Hoopes prize and get into Harvard Law School.
First, an outline of the problem. Where I think most thesis-writing seniors get in trouble is not in our poor planning, though there's plenty of that. Where we get screwed is in the actual obsession with the object itself. It becomes "It." It excuses all other things, and...
As an "It," the thesis is all-consuming. Being monumentally single-minded helps if you really are making a contribution to the intellectual life of the world, but since most of us are just trying to write 100 pages without plagiarizing anyone famous, this It-centrism makes formerly happy, normal...
Hegel, a great German philosopher whom I have been lucky enough to avoid reading, came up with the concept of dialectism. As I misunderstand it, Hegel sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of...
I DON'T CARE about Hegel. My thesis is about Marion Barry, and the closest I get to Hegel is the German restaurant where I interviewed a friend of Barry. But this concept of thesis, antithesis and synthesis seems a very powerful tool.