Susan Meld Shell

Professor

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Susan Meld Shell

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 519

Telephone: 617-552-4168

Email: susan.shell@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Cornell University
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests

Modern Political Theory and German Idealism; Kant; Hegel; Nietzsche; Heidegger

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications

The Strauss-Kr眉ger Correspondence: Translation with Introduction and Critical Essays, ed. Susan Meld Shell (New York and London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018).

鈥淭aking Men as They Are and Laws as They Can Be鈥�: Rousseau and Hobbes on Legitimacy and the State of Nature,鈥� in Rousseau鈥檚 Mind, ed. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (London: Routledge, 2019).

鈥淎nticipations of Autonomy,鈥� Kant and the Emergence of Autonomy, ed. Oliver Sensen and Stefano Bacin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

鈥淜ant and Civic Dignity in the Age of Trump,鈥� in Philosophy in the Age of Donald Trump, ed. Mark Sable (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

鈥淩ousseau,鈥� in Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

鈥淩ousseau鈥檚 Kantian Legacy鈥� (with Richard Velkley), in Thinking with Rousseau: from Machiavelli to Schmitt, ed. Helena Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Introduction, Leo Strauss鈥檚 Kant Seminars (1958, 1964), Leo Strauss Archive (online), University of Chicago, 2017.

鈥淜ant on Citizenship, Community, and Redistribution,鈥� Kant and Social Policies, ed. Andrea Faggion, et. al (New York/London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016).

鈥淜ant鈥檚 Lectures on Pedagogy,鈥� in Reading Kant鈥檚 Lectures, ed. Robert Clewis (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015).

听鈥溾�楳ore [than] Human鈥�: Kant on Liberal Education and the Public Use of Reason,鈥� in In Search of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Cifford Orwin, ed. Andrea Radasanu (Boston: Lexington Books, 2015).

Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide, co-edited with Richard Velkley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 430 pp.

America at Risk: Challenges to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, co-edited with Robert Faulkner (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), 273 pp.

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