'History And Psyche: Culture Psychoanalysis And The Past' tag archive

Always historicize?

Arendt’s love affair with Heidegger and its aftermath, and Adorno’s love of the high life, than we learn about their philosophies and the ways in which these might emerge out of experience of and reflection on Nazi domination. (Sherratt has written elsewhere on Adorno’s philosophy, in a study titled Adorno’s Positive Dialectic, 2002.) The opponents […]

180 Reviews: Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds., History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past David Joselit, After Art Christoph Menke, Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation Michel Serres, Biogea & Variations on the Body Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming, Dead Man Working

Reviews Look at his marvellous hands! Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0. Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in […]