Strauss-Krüger Correspondence

Susan M. Shell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston College, USA. She is the author of Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (2009), The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community (1996), The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics (1980). She is also the co-editor (with Robert Faulkner) of America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (2009).

• 1. Editor’s Introduction.- 2. The Correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger, 1928-1962 (Complete Text).- 3. The Light Shed on the Crucial Development of Strauss’s Thought by his Correspondence with Gerhard Krüger.- 4. The Example of Socrates: The Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger.- 5. “Zurück zu Plato!” But, which Plato?: The return to Plato by Gerhard Krüger and Leo Strauss.- 6. Moral Finitude and the Ontology of Creation: The Kantian Interpretation of Gerhard Krüger.- 7. Gerhard Krüger and Leo Strauss: The Kant motif.- 8. Natural Right and Historical Consciousness in Strauss and Krüger’s Exchange.- 9. History and Modernity in the Strauss-Krüger Correspondence.-10. Appendix I: Gerhard Krüger, Review of Strauss’s Die Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft.- 11. Appendix II: Leo Strauss, “Preface,” Hobbes politische Wissenschaft.