tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post1340870846425672828..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: FOOTNOTESRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24365496886356456842012-05-09T11:50:43.258-04:002012-05-09T11:50:43.258-04:00Fascinating. There are things that look sort of l...Fascinating. There are things that look sort of like footnotes in Hume's TREATISE, etc., but nothing like the modern footnote. I guess footnotes presuppose the existence of libraries. Harry Wolfson, in his Spinoza course, used to talk about the differences among long, medium, and short commentary. The long commentaries were bits of text on a page surrounded by extensive quotations from previous works that bore on the topic.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-23894913886224992282012-05-09T10:49:02.882-04:002012-05-09T10:49:02.882-04:00I believe that the modern academic footnote is tho...I believe that the modern academic footnote is thought to have begun with Gibbon's history, although marginalia and interlinear glosses are much older and can be found in manuscripts and most of the early printed editions. The difference, I think, is a change from *paraphrase* to citation.J.Vlasitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10340794410334308312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-7097881697120106262012-05-09T05:40:01.081-04:002012-05-09T05:40:01.081-04:00David Palmeter, thanks for the comment. Unless my...David Palmeter, thanks for the comment. Unless my memory is totally misleading me, way back when Abner Mikva was an Illinois State Rep and I was teaching at the University of Chicago, I was asked to write several briefing papers for him on a variety of foreign policy and nuclear weapons issues, which I did, but unfortunatly I have never actually met him.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-82904822505472443762012-05-08T22:28:26.680-04:002012-05-08T22:28:26.680-04:00Marginalia perhaps?
http://www.laphamsquarterly....Marginalia perhaps? <br /><br />http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/living-in-the-margins.phpSuperfluous Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14935534194246434873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-28507584389776990642012-05-08T21:29:29.435-04:002012-05-08T21:29:29.435-04:00When Abner Mikva was a Federal appellate court jud...When Abner Mikva was a Federal appellate court judge, he said to an audience of lawyers, "If God had meant for us to read footnotes, he would have put our eyes in our heads vertically rather than horizontally."<br /><br />No, I don't have a citation.David Palmeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895092366685079046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-42419240532192899422012-05-08T17:42:14.845-04:002012-05-08T17:42:14.845-04:00This reminded me of the old classic:
Anon: The M...This reminded me of the old classic:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/anon.htm" rel="nofollow">Anon: The Myth Behind The Legend</a>Bjornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02698906609662554600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-91178282892976068012012-05-08T16:09:43.836-04:002012-05-08T16:09:43.836-04:00You need a footnote to your footnote, citing autho...You need a footnote to your footnote, citing authority for that claim. :) Pretty clearly, I have struck a nerve.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-58247885484910717782012-05-08T15:41:09.079-04:002012-05-08T15:41:09.079-04:00The best footnote I ever read[1] in a law review i...The best footnote I ever read[1] in a law review is footnote 11 in an article, written on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision <i>Celotext Copr. v. Catrett</i>, called <i>The Irrepressible Myth of Celotex</i>. Footnote 11 is to the sentence "Anniversaries are times for reflection." It reads: "Cf. David J. Garrow, “Happy” Birthday, Brown v. Board of Education?: Brown's Fiftieth Anniversary and the New Critics of Supreme Court Muscularity, 90 VA. L. REV. 693, 693 (2004) (reviewing MICHAEL KLARMAN, FROM JIM CROW TO CIVIL RIGHTS: THE SUPREME COURT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY (2004)); Patricia M. Wald, Summary Judgment at Sixty, 76 TEX. L. REV. 1897, 1914-17 (1998) (discussing increased use of summary judgment sixty years after the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure); Jack B. Weinstein, After Fifty Years of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Are The Barriers to Justice Being Raised?, 137 U. PA. L. REV. 1901, 1901 (1989) (discussing the influence of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, their current role, and proposed “reforms” for the Rules fifty years after their adoption)."<br /><br />I would give you the full citation to this passage as per The Bluebook (a 3-400 page citation manual for lawyers that includes, among other nuances, different sections on the use of roman numerals when referring to British monarchs and when referring to the rest of the world's royalty), but I've forgotten the tittle and/or jot that you have to deploy when quoting a footnote, so I'd only lead you astray.<br /><br />[1] The best stories always start this way.Angushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692562500798180624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-55378520366514669382012-05-08T15:24:55.021-04:002012-05-08T15:24:55.021-04:00Marvelous. I shall check it out.Marvelous. I shall check it out.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-65231608385263691672012-05-08T15:03:08.360-04:002012-05-08T15:03:08.360-04:00A colleague suggests _The Footnote: A Curious Hist...A colleague suggests _The Footnote: A Curious History_ , by Anthony Grafton.fgshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10118536017753692425noreply@blogger.com