I don't know if members of the list have heard, but Jean Bethke Elshtain passed away on Sunday night. I imagine that a number of people on this list may not be fond of Jean because of her affiliation with some conservative groups--and of course she was not a philosopher but a political theorist--but she was one of the first generation of second wave feminist political theorists and her book Public Man/Private Woman, for all its problems, was highly influential in the field. She had been suffering for some time with a debilitating heart ailment, presumably linked to her post-polio syndrome, but she was active as recently as this spring. She will be missed by many of us, even those who disagreed with her.
"Nothing serves as well as obscurity to make shallowness look profound"--Walter Kaufmann
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