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21 Pol. Theory 3 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa21 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL L AST SEPTEMBER, Judith N. Shklar, of Harvard University and a founding member of Political Theory, passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack. Political Theory will publish some essays in memoriam in a future issue: publishers' deadlines do not yield to mortality. Dita's death leaves an unexpected empty space in the work and lives of many in political theory. We - I count myself among them - had expected to continue responding to the combination of brilliance and precision that was her constant mode. How many times have I told you not to go out into the rain without your rubbers? Now, is it raining? Yes. Did you go out without your rubbers? Yes. Did you catch cold? Just as I warned you. Now if you had only paid attention to religion in what you said about France in the seven- teenth century you would have seen that .. . She could fill intellectual space and time more rapidly than anyone I knew. She also had another mode though, one perhaps less seen. She knew as well as any teacher I have ever encountered when not to say anything. She never insisted that her students agree with her, and she never tried to get them to agree with her. If she could go on with afterburners blazing, she also knew when to stop. She never let the edge of her intelligence destroy a thought she respected, whether or not she thought it wrong. For many of her students she had the quality of a good friend: the thought What would Dita say? became part of one's conversation with oneself while writing, a voice to take seriously about things that mattered. Although her work and her voice remain with us, there is a finality to death and I miss her, as I know others do. Every annual meeting of the Executive Committee at the APSA sees another member rotate off the committee at the end of a six-year term. We bid farewell to Nannerl Keohane, who has somehow managed these past POLITICAL THEORY, Vol. 21 No. 1, February 1993 3-5 ® 1993 Sage Publications, Inc. 3

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