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9 Pol. Theory 3 (1981)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa9 and id is 1 raw text is: FROM THE EDITOR HERE WAS ONCE a time, before political philosophy was captured by the universities, when theorists learned their craft from personal praxis as well as from scholarly study. Augustine was a bishop; Machiavelli, a senior civil servant; Locke, a doctor and counselor to Shaftesbury; Burke, an M.P.; Rousseau, a music copyist, playwright, and diplomat; Mill, the executive officer of the East India Company; and Walter Lippman, a pundit. In recent times, there has been much less of this, although Roger Masters did serve as cultural attache in Paris, and Shlomo Avineri was Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Perhaps theorists today are too fond of the imagery of Plato's cave, regarding every step into the world of power and praxis as a descent into darkness, and too forgetful of the image of the Legislator, the Educator, and the Citizen. In any case, we are more than happy to learn that Professor Nannerl Keohane of Stanford University, an active contributor to this journal, executive officer of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought, and the author of a recently published but already much-praised study of early modern French political thought, has been selected as the tenth president of Wellesly College. All those who know Professor Keohane will know that she is unlikely to leave political philosophy behind when she becomes an academic administrator. We wish her well. I have received the following communication from our Book Review Editor, Richard Flathman. It saddens me to report the death of John C. Rees of University College of Swansea. John Rees was best known for his superb work on John Stuart Mill. Those who enjoyed the high privilege that was his friendship thereby understand Mill's conviction that there are individuals through whose lives the human estate becomes rich, diversified, and animating, furnishing more abundant aliment to high thoughts and elevating feelings and strengthening the tie which binds every individual to the race, by making the race infinitely better worth belonging to. -Benjamin R. Barber 3

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