Professor David Roberts, Professor Emeritus
Overview
David Roberts is Emeritus Professor of German, a former director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and co-editor of the social theory journal Thesis Eleven.
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Contact Details
Room W828
Menzies Building
(Building 11)
Consultation by appointment
Contact
Phone: 03 9905 8097
FAX: 03 9905 5437
Email:
david.roberts@arts.monash.edu.au
Mailing Address:
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building
11
Monash University
Clayton 3800
AUSTRALIA
Research Interests
His main research interests are in the fields of::
- modernism and postmodernism
- aesthetics and genre theory
- Marxist critical theory and systems theory
- sociology of literature
- the novel
Selected Publications
Books
David Roberts and Johann P. Arnason Seizing the Century by the Throat: Elias Canetti and the Crisis of European Civilization Rochester, N.Y., Camden House, in press.
Gerhard Fischer and David Roberts (eds) Schreiben nach der Wende: Ein Jahrzehnt deutscher Literatur Tbingen, Stauffenburg, 2001.
| David Roberts (ed.) Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1995. |  |
Brian Nelson, David Roberts and Walter Veit (eds) The European Community in the 1990s: Economics, Politics, Defence Oxford, Berg, 1992.
Brian Nelson, David Roberts and Walter Veit (eds) The Idea of Europe: Problems of National and Transnational Identities Oxford, Berg, 1992.
David Roberts and Philip Thomson (eds) The Modern German Historical Novel: Paradigms, Problems, Perspectives Oxford, Berg, 1991.
| Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1990. |  |
Pavel Petr, David Roberts and Philip Thomson (eds) Comic Relations: Studies in the Comic, Satire and Parody Frankfurt, Lang, 1985.
Tendenzwenden: Aspekte des Kulturwandels der siebziger Jahre Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1984.
The Indirections of Desire: Hamlet in Goethes Wilhelm Meister Heidelberg, Carl Winter Verlag, 1980.
Kopf und Welt: Elias Canettis Roman 'Die Blendung' Mnchen, Hanser Verlag, 1975.
Artistic Consciousness and Political Conscience: The Novels of Heinrich Mann 1900-1938 Bern, Lang, 1971.
Chapters and Articles (since 1995)
'The Frightful Exhaustion of the Gods. Religion, Crowds and Power in Elias Canetti' in Bernhard Greiner (ed.), Arche Noah. Die Idee der 'Kultur' im deutsch-juedischen Diskurs. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2002, 359-382.
'System und Simulation. Wolfgang Hilbigs Endspiel von Geist und Macht in der DDR' in Schreiben nach der Wende. Tuebingen, Stauffenberg, 2001.
'Einleitung' in Fischer, Roberts (eds.), Schreiben nach der Wende. Tbingen: Stauffenberg, 2001.
'Between Home and World. Agnes Heller's Concept of the Beautiful', Thesis Eleven 59 (1999), 95-103.
'Die Paradoxie des Ursprungs. Zur Archologie der Romantik' in Thomas Wgenbaur (ed.) Blinde Emergenz? Tbingen: Synchron Verlag, 2000, 87-101.
'Wissenschaft und Kunst. Gedanken zur soziologischen Imagination bei Niklas Luhmann' in Theodor M. Bardmann, Dirk Baecker (eds.), Gibt es eigentlich den Berliner Zoo noch? Erinnerungen an Niklas Luhmann. Konstanz: UVK Universittsverlag Konstanz, 1999, 29-31.
'Erzhlungen der Modernisierung. Die Studentenbewegung und der gesellschaftliche Wandel in Deutschland' in Rainer Rosenberg, Inge Mnz-Koenen, Petra Boden (eds.), Der Geist der Unruhe. 1968 im Vergleich. Wissenschaft - Literatur - Medien. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000, 61-82.
'The Globalizing of the University. Some Thoughts on the Environment of Literary Studies' in Guido Zurstiege (ed.), Festschrift fr die Wirklichkeit. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000, 75-82.
'Art and Myth: Adorno and Heidegger', Thesis Eleven, 58 (1999).
'Narratives of Modernization. The German Student Movement and Social Change in West Germany', Australia In Between Cultures. Canberra: The Australian Academy of the Humanities,1999, 44-54.
'Kleists Kritik der Urteilskraft. Zum Erhabenen in Das Erdbeben in Chili ' in Tim Mehigan (ed.), Kleist und die Aufklrung , Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2000, 46-57.
'Von der sthetischen Utopie der Moderne zur Kunst der Gesellschaft' in Bernhard Greiner, Maria Moog-Grnewald (eds.), Etho-Poetik. Ethik und sthetik im Dialog. Bonn: Bouvier, 1998, 119-134.
'Politics and Economy: A Gloss', Thesis Eleven 53 (1998), 11-14.
'Arte e mito: Adorno e Heidegger', Nuovo Corrente XLV (1998), 37-64.
'Paradox Preserved: From Ontology to Autology. Reflexions on Niklas Luhmann's The Art of Society', Thesis Eleven 51 (1997), 53-74.
'Introduction: Debating Enzensberger' in Gerhard Fischer (ed.), Debating Enzensberger. 'Great Migration' and 'Civil War', Tbingen, Stauffenburg, 1996, ix-xvi.
'What's left? - Enzensberger and the Role of the Intellectual in Germany' in G. Fischer (ed.), Debating Enzensberger, 31-38.
'Zur Genealogie der Literatur. berlegungen zur Selbstbeobachtung in stratifizierten Gesellschaften' in Jrgen Fohrmann, Harro Mller (eds.),Systemtheorie der Literatur, Munich, Fink, 1996, 292-309.
'On Aura and an Ecological Aesthetics of Nature' in Gerhard Fischer (ed.),'With the Sharpened Axe of Reason'. Approaches to Walter Benjamin, Oxford, Berg, 1996, 55-66.
'Crowds and Power or the Natural History of Modernity: Horkheimer, Adorno, Canetti, Arendt', Thesis Eleven 45 (1996), 39-68.
'Georg Simmel' Philosophy of Money: Reflexions on the relation between Philosophy and History', Thesis Eleven 44(1996), 39-68.
'Heiner Mller's Quartet: The Endgame of Aesthetic Existence' in Gerhard Fischer (ed.), Heiner Mller. ConTEXTS and HISTORY , Tbingen, Stauffenburg, 1995, 97-102.
'The Law of the Text of the Law. Derrida before Kafka', Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift fr Literaturwissenschaft 69 (1995), 344-367.
'Die Blendung der gesamten Romanliteratur. Canettis paradoxe Romanpoetik' in Gerhard Neumann (ed.) Canetti als Leser, Freiburg, Rombach, 1996, 49-58.
'Democracy and Culture: The Janus Face of the Postmodern in Ferenc Feher's Writings on Aesthetics', Thesis Eleven 42 (1995), 41-51.
'Introduction' in David Roberts (ed.) Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1995, 1-9.
'From Text to System: Recent German Literary Theory' in D. Roberts (ed.)Reconstructing Theory, 91-114.
'The Boheme and the Avantgarde. Historical Reflexions on Helmut Kreuzer's Die Bohme' in Leslie Bodi, Gnter Helmes, Egon Schwarz, Friedrich Voit (eds.),Weltbrger-Textwelten. Helmut Kreuzer zum Dank Frankfurt, Lang, 1995, 363-384.
Translations (since 1995)
Niklas Luhmann, 'Politics and Economy', Thesis Eleven 53 (1998), 1-10.
'Elias Canetti: Discussion with Theodor W. Adorno', Thesis Eleven 45, 1996, 1-15.
Niklas Luhmann, 'The Two Sociologies and the Theory of Society', Thesis Eleven 43 (1995), 48-65.