Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:20:15 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: sudden death (fwd)


The sadness of Lisa's absence also has deeply touched me.

Malgosia, i have nothing to add to the suddeness of Lisa's death.

i did have the opportunity to get to know Lisa beyond her presence on the 
e-mail lists.  Our personal interaction was pleasant and friendly, our 
e-mail interaction often a bit hostile, but rewarding.

Our first encounter with one another was a debate about whether Marx 
could be understood as a Methodological Individualist; and then over the 
methodological individualism more general.  This was in a class on Marx's 
Capital at the U of Utah.  i remember our solidarity in pointing to 
Mormon students of the class how Mormonism was founded on socialistic 
principles.  

Unlike others have expressed i remember Lisa as dogmatic, and her 
liberalism as a weakness, i remember expressing this to her in 
the hallway after class, neither of us held back on such things.  
Actually this is something i like quite much about Lisa, she was not 
easily insulted, and expected (and usually received) the same from others.

i believe her great strength was to be found in her implicit faith in our 
and indeed her ability to leave the world just a little bit better than 
how (we and) she found it.  In this sense she was not only Marxian, but more 
important humanistic in her commitments.

Lisa expressed in the note Jerry forwarded that she took Ehrbar's class 
on Marx in part to avoid taking a language; but of course this 
understates her interest.  She took classes in social sciences, two of 
which we took together, because she truely believed she 
could make a difference and make the world just a little better.

In this i know she successed, for i am the better from our exchanges and 
having known her.

Her interests were vast and her effect great.  Thanks Lisa for making a 
difference.

in sadness,

hans d.


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