Michael Janover
- Tel: +61 3 990 52545
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: Michael.Janover@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W1009 10th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton Campus
Dr Michael Janover is Lecturer in Politics teaching and researching in the areas of political theory and history of political thought. He has a BA (Hons) in Politics and Philosophy and PhD (Politics) from Monash University. Michael teaches at all year levels of the BA and supervises several PhD and MA candidates.
Dr Janover teaches
- PLT1050 - Nature, Law and Revolution: Political Ideas in Context
- PLT2140 - PLT3140 - Progress and Despair: Modern Political Theories & Ideologies;
- PLT4399 - Grand Theories of Politics
Research
Michael's research inquires into the symbolic and cultural frameworks in which political ideas and images are developed. Central to his questioning are the ways in which ideas drawn from morality, art and science can shape political thinking and action. He is currently investigating the place of ancient Greek (Athenian) tragic drama and philosophy in the Athenian polis, with reference to modern representations of the ancient polis as a primordial community.
Publications
Michael has published essays on Foucault and ideas of subjectivity ("The Subject of Foucault," in Foucault: The Legacy, edited by Clare O'Farrell,QUT, 1997) and on critical theory and memory ("Nostalgias," Critical Horizons, 1,1, 2000)..
Postgraduate Supervision
Dr Janover has supervised awarded PhD dissertations on Adorno and Foucault; representations of Aboriginality in Australia; the discourses of democracy; impacts on subjectivity and community of cybernetic communications technology. Current PhD dissertations under his supervision include projects on ideas and metaphors of the body politic; Heidegger and the question of the political; globalisation and the moral community; Nietzsche and Hegel as theorists of modernity.
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
Ela Ogru (Master of Arts) Thesis Title: The Politics of Kurdish Nationalism in Turkey Supervisors: Associate Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh and Dr Michael Janover