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McGuinn Hall Room 519
Telephone: 617-552-4168
Email: susan.shell@bc.edu
Modern Political Theory and German Idealism; Kant; Hegel; Nietzsche; Heidegger
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Susan Shell is the author of Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2009), The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community (University of Chicago Press, (1996), The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics (University of Toronto Press, 1980). She is also the co-editor (with Robert Faulkner) of America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Michigan Press, 2009). She has also written on Rousseau, German Idealism, and selected areas of public policy. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Council of Learned Societies, The Bradley Foundation, the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst and the Radcliffe Institute.听
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.