Prof. Henk de Berg

BIOGRAPHY

Henk de Berg is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield. His expertise is in German and French cultural theory and in social and political thought. Professor de Berg is the author of four books, including Freud’s Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies (2003; described by Peter Gay as “as good an introductory text as one can possibly hope for”), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award and has been translated into three European languages as well as Chinese. Among his eight co-edited volumes is Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas: An Annotated German-Language Reader (2012); the editors’ general introduction has been described by Joachim Whaley as “probably the best short account of the development of modern German philosophy”. Henk de Berg’s most recent book, written for a larger audience, is Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying (2024).