Dr Robert Savage

Robert Savage recently completed his PhD in the Centre on Hlderlin after the Catastrophe. He is now a research assistant, working on utopia, dystopia and science fiction. His research interests also include German and French critical theory and English and German literature. He is a member of the editorial board of Colloquy.

Selected Publications

Books

2008 Hölderlin after the Catastrophe. Heidegger – Adorno – Brecht. Rochester NY: Camden House.

2007 C. Magerski, R. Savage and C. Weller, eds. Moderne Begreifen. Zur Paradoxie eines sozioästhetischen Deutungsmusters [Understanding Modernity. Paradoxes of an Interpretative Paradigm]. Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag.

2006 A. Milner, M. Ryan and R. Savage, eds. Imagining the Future. Utopia and Dystopia. Melbourne, Arena Publications, 2006.

Translated Books

2010 Hans Blumenberg, trans. with an introduction by Robert Savage. Paradigms for a Metaphorology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (forthcoming).

2009 Jan Assmann, trans. Robert Savage. The Price of Monotheism. Stanford: Stanford University Press (in press).

2008 Alexander García Düttmann, trans. Robert Savage. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Guest-Edited Journal Issues

2007 The Futures of Utopia. Special issue of Colloquy, No. 14.

Refereed Chapters and Articles

2009 ‘Palaeoanthropology of the Future. The Prehistory of Posthumanity in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Extrapolation (forthcoming November).

2009 ‘On Truth and Semblance in an Operatic and Extra-Operatic Sense: Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage.’ Opera Quarterly (forthcoming September).

2009 ‘The Ape’s Handiwork. The Place of Labour in the Philosophical Anthropology of Max Scheler.’ Limbus (forthcoming).

2009 ‘The Polemic of the Late Work: Adorno’s Hölderlin.’ In G. Richter, ed. Language Without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity. New York, Fordham University Press (forthcoming).

2008 ‘Erocide is Painless. Insensation in Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune.’ Australian Literary Studies 23: 422-433.

2008 ‘The Uncomprehended Tear. Paul Celan’s Memorial to Spinoza.’ Limbus 1: 53-66.

2008 (with Andrew Milner) ‘Pulped Dreams: Utopia and American Pulp Science Fiction.’ Science-Fiction Studies 104 (35.1): 31-47.

2008 ‘Laughter from the Lifeworld. Hans Blumenberg’s Theory of Nonconceptuality.’ Thesis Eleven, 94: 119-131.

2007 ‘Menschen/Affen. On a Figure in Goethe, Herder and Adorno.’ Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 126: 110-125.

2007 ‘Die Mitteilung der Rede. Anmerkungen zu einem Satz im Doktor Faustus.’ [The Communication of Speech. Notes on a Line in Doctor Faustus.] In C. Magerski, R. Savage and C. Weller, eds. Moderne Begreifen. Zur Paradoxie eines sozioästhetischen Deutungsmusters. Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag. 221-230.

2006 with Andrew Milner and Matthew Ryan, ‘Editors’ Introduction’, in Milner, Ryan, Savage, eds. Imagining the Future. Utopia and Dystopia. Melbourne, Arena Publications. 5-12.

2006 ‘Are Rats Comrades? Some Readings of a Question in Orwell.’ Colloquy, 12: 83-90.

2006 ‘My Own Private Swabia. On the Idiocy of Heidegger’s Nationalism.’ Thesis Eleven, 87: 112-121.

2006 ‘The Precedence of Citation: On Brecht’s The Antigone of Sophocles.’ Colloquy, 11: 99-126.

2005 ‘Between Heidegger and Hölderlin: The ‘Sacred’ Speech of Maurice Blanchot.’ In L. Hill, B. Nelson and D. Vardoulakis, eds. After Blanchot. Literature, Criticism, Philosophy. Newark, University of Delaware Press. 149-167.

2005 ‘Adorno’s Philopolemology. The ‘Parataxis’ Speech as Example.’ European Journal of Social Theory, 8.3: 281-295.

2004 ‘Adorno’s Family and Other Animals.’ Thesis Eleven, 78: 102-112.

2002 ‘The Politics of Influence: Bruce Beaver’s Letters to Live Poets.’ Colloquy, 6.

Translations

a) French to English

2006 Maurice Blanchot, ‘The Proper Use of Science Fiction.’ In A. Milner, M. Ryan and R. Savage, eds. Imagining the Future. Utopia and Dystopia. Melbourne, Arena Publications. 247-256.

b) German to English

2009 Alexander García Düttmann: ‘A Note on Philosophy and Photography’ (forthcoming).

2009 Alexander García Düttmann. ‘For Example: Literature’ (forthcoming).

2009 Gerhard Richter. ‘Too late? Afterness and Critique’ (forthcoming).

2009 Reinhard Steiner. ‘All foreground without distance’ (forthcoming).

2009 Alexander García Düttmann. ‘Without Soil: A Figure in Adorno’s Thought.’ In G. Richter, ed. Language Without Soil: Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity. New York, Fordham University Press (forthcoming).

2006 Alexander García Düttmann. ‘Self-Deception and Recognition.’ Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11.2: 19-30.

2006 Alexander García Düttmann. ‘From memory / Aus dem Gedächtnis.’ Uriel Orlow: Deposits (Berlin/Zürich: The Green Box). 11-15.

2006 Thorsten Bonacker, ‘Disclosing Critique. The Contingency of Understanding in Adorno’s Interpretative Social Theory.’ European Journal of Social Theory, 9: 369-383.

2006 Gernot Böhme, ‘Technical Gadgetry. Technological Development in the Aesthetic Economy.’ Thesis Eleven, 86: 54-66.

2005 Gernot Böhme, ‘Driven by the Interest in Reasonable Conditions.’ Thesis Eleven, 81: 80-90.

2003 Gernot Böhme, ‘Contribution to the Critique of the Aesthetic Economy.’ Thesis Eleven, 73: 71-82.

Book Reviews

2008 ‘Felix Heidenreich, Mensch und Moderne bei Hans Blumenberg and Oliver Müller, Sorge um die Vernunft. Hans Blumenbergs phänomenologische Anthropologie.’ Limbus 1: 254-256.

2007 ‘James Lyon, Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. An Unresolved Conversation.’ Colloquy, 13: 149-151.

2005 ‘Peter Murphy and David Roberts, Dialectic of Romanticism.’ Colloquy, 9: 140-143.

2002 ‘Martin Morris, Rethinking the Communicative Turn.’ Thesis Eleven, 68: 134-138.