Susan Shell
Biographic Data
| ID | 499558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Shell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shell |
| SIGNATURE | SHELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Representation and Democracy in the Metaphysics of Morals: Kant’s Late Answer to the ‘Problem’ of Sovereignty
A rightful condition, according to Kant, requires both a law to limit the freedom of each and a ruler to enforce that limit, a ruler who cannot himself be subject to the law’s enforcement without ceasing to perform his primary function. Kant placed his hopes, circa 1784, in a future ruler who combined worldly experience, a ‘correct conception’ of a possible constitution, and, above all, the good will to accept it. Subsequent historical events, al…
‘Nachschrift eines Freundes’: Kant on Language, Friendship and the Concept of a People
Kant's brief ‘Postscript of a Friend’ serves as a peculiar coda to his life work. The last of Kant's writing to be published during his lifetime, it is both a friendly endorsement of Christian Gottlieb Mielcke's newly competed Lithuanian–German and German–Lithuanian Dictionary and a plea in Kant's own name for the preservation of minority languages, Lithuanian in particular. This support for minority languages has no visible precedent in his earl…
Books in review
No Angst and All Play: Postmodernism and the Humanities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan Shell Susan Shell teaches political philosophy at Boston College. She is the author of The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics. Her hook, The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. © Transaction Publishers. A version of this article originally appeared in Academic Questions, summer 1990 (volume 3:3…
Books in Review
A Determined Stand: "Freedom & Security in Fichte's "Science of Right
The concept of state elaborated by Fichte in Science of Right represents a watershed in the history of liberal, romantic, and socialist thought. Fichte embraces a unique understanding of freedom, this article argues, that enables him to avoid some of the pitfalls of Kantian dualism and also gives new emphasis to the dignity of labor. But the price of his new understading, the author concludes, is an even more vexing series of theoretical and prac…
Meier on Strauss and Schmitt
Heinrich Meier 's careful and illuminating study of the relation between Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss should come as something of a revelation to many* Through a painstaking analysis of the three editions of Schmitt's influential Concept of the Political , Meier uncovers a heretofore largely overlooked “dialogue,” albeit one partly conducted “in absentia.” As Meier observes Schmitt is one of a relatively small number of contemporaries whose work …
No angst and all play: Today’s cheerful assault on the humanities
Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Peter J. Steinberger
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Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Peter J. Steinberger
No angst and all play: Today’s cheerful assault on the humanities
Meier on Strauss and Schmitt
Heinrich Meier 's careful and illuminating study of the relation between Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss should come as something of a revelation to many* Through a painstaking analysis of the three editions of Schmitt's influential Concept of the Political , Meier uncovers a heretofore largely overlooked “dialogue,” albeit one partly conducted “in absentia.” As Meier observes Schmitt is one of a relatively small number of contemporaries whose work …
A Determined Stand: "Freedom & Security in Fichte's "Science of Right
The concept of state elaborated by Fichte in Science of Right represents a watershed in the history of liberal, romantic, and socialist thought. Fichte embraces a unique understanding of freedom, this article argues, that enables him to avoid some of the pitfalls of Kantian dualism and also gives new emphasis to the dignity of labor. But the price of his new understading, the author concludes, is an even more vexing series of theoretical and prac…
Books in Review
No Angst and All Play: Postmodernism and the Humanities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan Shell Susan Shell teaches political philosophy at Boston College. She is the author of The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics. Her hook, The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. © Transaction Publishers. A version of this article originally appeared in Academic Questions, summer 1990 (volume 3:3…
Books in review
‘Nachschrift eines Freundes’: Kant on Language, Friendship and the Concept of a People
Kant's brief ‘Postscript of a Friend’ serves as a peculiar coda to his life work. The last of Kant's writing to be published during his lifetime, it is both a friendly endorsement of Christian Gottlieb Mielcke's newly competed Lithuanian–German and German–Lithuanian Dictionary and a plea in Kant's own name for the preservation of minority languages, Lithuanian in particular. This support for minority languages has no visible precedent in his earl…
Representation and Democracy in the Metaphysics of Morals: Kant’s Late Answer to the ‘Problem’ of Sovereignty
A rightful condition, according to Kant, requires both a law to limit the freedom of each and a ruler to enforce that limit, a ruler who cannot himself be subject to the law’s enforcement without ceasing to perform his primary function. Kant placed his hopes, circa 1784, in a future ruler who combined worldly experience, a ‘correct conception’ of a possible constitution, and, above all, the good will to accept it. Subsequent historical events, al…
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