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Yvonne Sherratt is a writer and academic. Her main areas of interest are philosophy and intellectual history. Biography Yvonne Sherratt was educated at Cambridge University, where she was an undergraduate at Newnham College, a postgraduate at King’s College and a research fellow at Corpus Christi College. She has received various prize research grants from the British Academy and has taught at a number of Universities including Cambridge, Edinburgh and most recently New College, Oxford. She has published a number of books with Yale and Cambridge University Presses. Recently she has written for the BBC History Magazine, History Today, and reviewed for the Times Higher Educational Supplement and Times Literary Supplement. She has also undertaken a number of radio interviews, including for the BBC World Service, and public talks, most recently at the Southbank Centre in March as part of their Berlin in the 20’s/30’s festival. Work. Her most recent book Hitler’s Philosophers, published by Yale University Press in January 2013, is a gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler’s rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime. The story is written for a general audience focusing upon the personal drama of those involved. Her previous work explores European Philosophy, most notably twentieth and nineteenth century German. Bibliography Books Hitler’s Philosophers (Yale University Press, 2013), translated into Korean, Spanish and Italian. Continental Philosophy of Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Adorno's Positive Dialectic (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Magazine Features Five Best biographies of philosophers during the era of the Third Reich, Wall Street Journal, May 2013. `Hitler: The Philosopher Führer’, History Today Magazine, April, 2013. `Hitler’s Collaborating Philosophers’, BBC History Magazine, Feb, 2013. Book Reviews Stefan Zweig: The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche, transl. Eden and Cedar Paul, Times Literary Supplement, March 8, 2013. `Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture’ by David Dennis, in Times Literary Supplement, Jan 4 2013. Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis By Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 13-19 Dec 2012. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 By Anne Applebaum Times Higher Educational Supplement, 1-7 Nov 2012. `License to Kill’, Review of `Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany’ by Robert P. Ericksen, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 10-16 May 2012. Review of `Exact Imagination: Late Work on Adorno's Aesthetics’, by Weber Nicholsen, in Times Literary Supplement, September 24, 1999. Interviews BBC World Service, `Fifth Floor’ radio, interview on Hitler’s Philosophers. Translated into Russia, recorded 8th March, 2013. Sean Moncrieff, Newsreel, Independent national radio, Ireland. 2.30pm, February 06, 2013. Interview about Hitler’s Philosophers. Bookbound, Dublin FM radio, 17th February 2013, 7.30pm. 30 minute interview about Hitler’s Philosophers. Life FM Irish Radio, Interview about Hitler’s Philosophers. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, German radio. Feature on Hitler’s Philosophers. Deutschlandradio Kultur, National German radio, Feature on Hitler’s Philosophers. Channel Four Television, `Women in the Media’ Sherratt interviewed Patrica Hewitt, Claire Short, Polly Toynbee. Academic Articles 'Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno’s concept of Aura’ Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2007. `The Concept of the Self in Hegelian-Marxism and Freud'. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Vol. 227, 2004. `Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Reading’ in Delanty, G. ed. Theodor W. Adorno, Sage Publications Ltd., London. (Masters in Modern Social Thought Series). 2004 `Instrumental Reason’s Unreason’ in Rasmussen, D. ed. Critical Theory, Sage Publications Ltd., London. (Masters in Modern Social Thought Series). 2004 `Expression, Truth and Authenticity' in Proceedings `On Adorno's Theory of Music and Musical Performance',  Conference Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estetica Musical, Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2004 'The Concept of Enlightenment'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2000. 'Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Reading'. History of the Human Sciences, 1999. 'Instrumental Reason's Unreason'. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1998. 'Negative Dialectics: A Positive Interpretation'. International Philosophy Quarterly, 1998. 'Aesthetics and Social Reconciliation'. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1998. Reviews of Hitler’s Philosophers 'Sherratt describes Hitler’s philosophers as being concerned with “a terrible secret: the story of how philosophy was implicated in genocide.' It is a good description of a fascinating, disturbing and necessary book'. John Gray, The Belfast Telegraph `exceptionally well told…, Dr Sherratt provides compelling studies of the philosophers who fled or died rather than play along with Hitler’ Simon Heffer, Standpoint Magazine `a powerful portrait of collaboration, and corruption.’ John Cornwell, Financial Times `Hitler’s Philosophers…is a sobering and disturbing tale’, Alasdair Palmer, Sunday Telegraph `The chapters on Jewish German thinkers are…compelling. Her book is a useful reminder of the depths to which supposedly civilised people can sink when confronted with the temptations of power’ Sunday Times. `…a moving account of Kurt Huber, mentor to the White Rose resistance movement’ George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement `Sherratt’s focus on people…is also one of the book’s strengths. The stories she presents of the philosophers who fled Germany – Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt – are rich and moving, sometimes amusing and at times unexpected.’ Book of the Week, Independent `Sherratt wrote this book as a docudrama…But it does contain an important warning…’ Laurence Rees, Mail on Sunday A `painstaking, thorough and substantial narrative …, [her] dramatized biographical style…ensures that her reader confront the characters who populate her account as concrete individuals… we are forced to admit that the life of ideas is always embedded in the choices and fates of particular individuals… vividly presented’ Literary Review

`…Sherratt charts chillingly and exactly how the Nazi regime began to indoctrinate and intimidate the universities.’ The Scotsman `A brilliantly conceived work of genuine scholarship, this book is fascinating and important.’ Starred review, Publisher’s Weekly, US It is a fascinating subject… Sherratt describes the fatal intersection of politics and ideas during the Nazi era. She draws neat biographical sketches of Heidegger ("Hitler's Superman"), of lesser figures, like Krieck and Bäumler ("Collaborators"), and of Carl Schmitt ("Hitler's Lawmaker"). Wall Street Journal `Her book's strongest contribution is its overview of Hitler's self-conception as the "philosopher-Führer"—his "astonishing" "identification with great German philosophers. …her accounts—drive the bleak picture home’ The Chronicle, US` ‘In Hitler’s Philosophers, Yvonne Sherratt explores the philosophical world that shaped Hitler’s ideas, offering fresh perspectives on familiar intellectual terrain but also leading us into lesser known realms, paying notable homage to those intellectual exiles of the world created. Sherratt presents a rich cast of characters, weaving their lives and their ideas, and tracing the trajectories of triumph tragedy and no small number of twists of fortune. A thoughtful thought-provoking book.’ Timothy W. Ryback, author of Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life.atSh aped his Life

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