Works by David Roberts
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- The total work of art in European modernism.David Roberts -2011 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library.In this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution.
- The monarchy and the Fascist regime in Italy.David D. Roberts -forthcoming -History of European Ideas.Controversy has long surrounded the complex relationship between King Victor Emmanuel III and the dictator Benito Mussolini in Fascist Italy. It is clear that the king played decisive roles in bringing Mussolini to power in 1922 and in removing him in 1943. In between, the two coexisted as Italy became a ‘dyarchy’, with two foci of power. The presence of the monarchy at once checked Fascist radicalism and persuaded many conservatives to adhere to the regime. Thanks especially to the monarchy, (...) the innovative thrust of Fascism was channelled in certain delimited directions, toward a statist economy, for example. Still, the relationship between the crown and Mussolini was often rocky, though the king’s reluctance did not prevent alliance with Nazi Germany, anti-Semitism, and war. Tensions were largely papered over by rhetoric and myth-making, as if the elements of Fascism fit together neatly. Despite his opposition to certain particulars, Victor Emmanuel identified with the overall Fascist project to some extent, and he worried that outright opposition to the regime would jeopardize the monarchy. But as the Second World War went badly for Italy, the king finally deposed Mussolini. Nevertheless, Italy soon voted to eliminate the monarchy, discredited by its association with fascism. (shrink)
- Dialectic of Romanticism: a Critique of Modernism.David Roberts &Peter Murphy -unknown
- Benedetto Croce and the Uses of Historicism.David D. Roberts -1987No categories
- Nothing But History: Reconstruction and Extremity After Metaphysics.David D. Roberts -1995 - University of California Press."An admirable accomplishment.... Roberts provides valuable insights into the current debate on the nature of historical knowledge in our present 'postmodern' time. Anyone concerned with the philosophy of history will need to reckon with this book."--Allan D. Megill, author of "Prophets of Extremity".
- Foucault and Adorno: Two forms of the critique of modernity.Axel Honneth &David Roberts -1986 -Thesis Eleven 15 (1):48-59.
- Technology and modernity.David Roberts -2012 -Thesis Eleven 111 (1):19-35.In the crisis scenarios of modernity which flourished in the Weimar Republic, technology is typically seen as destiny or fate. Thus Oswald Spengler and Ernst Jünger both construe the coming struggle for world power in terms of the integration of production and technology in the industrial-military complex. Martin Heidegger’s critique of Jünger’s blueprint for total mobilization in Der Arbeiter (1932) springs from his reading of modernity as nihilism. Just as the crisis of Western history is reaching completion in modernity, so (...) equally metaphysics reaches completion in modern technology. Heidegger’s essay ‘The Question Concerning Technology’, written after the Second World War, is contrasted with Ernst Cassirer’s essay ‘Form and Technology’ (1930), directed against Spengler’s regression to irrationalism, in terms of two fundamental relationships to the world: Heidegger’s Greek-oriented ontology of world disclosure and Cassirer’s modern ontology of construction (the possibilization of the world) with reference to technology and art. (shrink)
- Philosophy and Geography Iii: Philosophies of Place.Philip Brey,Lee Caragata,James Dickinson,David Glidden,Sara Gottlieb,Bruce Hannon,Ian Howard,Jeff Malpas,Katya Mandoki,Jonathan Maskit,Bryan G. Norton,Roger Paden,David Roberts,Holmes Rolston Iii,Izhak Schnell,Jonathon M. Smith,David Wasserman &Mick Womersley (eds.) -1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.A growing literature testifies to the persistence of place as an incorrigible aspect of human experience, identity, and morality. Place is a common ground for thought and action, a community of experienced particulars that avoids solipsism and universalism. It draws us into the philosophy of the ordinary, into familiarity as a form of knowledge, into the wisdom of proximity. Each of these essays offers a philosophy of place, and reminds us that such philosophies ultimately decide how we make, use, and (...) understand places, whether as accidents, instruments, or fields of care. (shrink)
- The Work of Art and the Seff-Reproduction of Art.Niklas Luhmann &David Roberts -1985 -Thesis Eleven 12 (1):4-27.
- Moral managers and business sanctuaries.David Roberts -1986 -Journal of Business Ethics 5 (3):203 - 208.Richard Konrad claims that businessmen are guilty of adhering to a vicious form of ethical relativism. In practice, the relativism takes the form of doing an act which ordinarily would be called wrong and then claiming that the act is right or justified because it falls under a special set of codes (business ethics) which preempt ordinary ones. These codes or business ethics establish moral sanctuaries for businessmen. Konrad examines three versions of the sanctuary position, argues that they fail, and (...) concludes that the position is untenable. In this article it is claimed that Konrad is in error, that upon closer examination the three versions do provide justification for businessmen claiming relief from moral criticism. (shrink)
- (1 other version)Paradox Preserved: From Ontology to Autology. Reflections on Niklas Luhmann's the Art of Society.David Roberts -1987 -Thesis Eleven 51 (1):53-74.As a universal theory Luhmann's systems theory of society includes art in its ambit. The Art of Society (1995) reconstructs the formal and the social-historical conditions of the functional differentiation of a system of art since the Renaissance. The methodological focus of the reconstruction - Luhmann's theory of form (perception, first and second order observation, medium and form) and of systemic differentiation (social function, self-organization, codes and programmes, evolution and self-description of art) - are analysed in the first part of (...) the paper. The second part examines the unresolved question of the code of the art system, the hermeneutic circle integral to Luhmann's theory design, and the relation of his theory of art to the `aesthetic epoch' of art theory with special reference to Heidegger and Adorno. (shrink)
- Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno.David Roberts -1992 -Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (3):262-263.
- From the cultural contradictions of capitalism to the creative economy.David Roberts -2012 -Thesis Eleven 110 (1):83-97.The geography of contemporary bohemia is integral to Richard Florida’s thesis of the rise of a new creative class in the USA. The strong correlation between the presence of bohemians and innovative high-tech industries in a number of American cities stands in sharp contrast to the historical image of a bohemian subculture of artists and intellectuals, defined by their antagonistic relationship to bourgeois society. Rather than a sign of social marginality, bohemian life-styles have now become a marker of the ‘new (...) economy’, variously labeled the creative, the cultural or the aesthetic economy. In my paper I want to compare and contrast these two opposed images of bohemia – the 19th-century idea of bohemia as the libertarian other of liberal-bourgeois society and the new, highly topical economic geography of bohemia – with the following questions in mind: How and why does the 19th-century artistic critique of capitalism mutate into an expression of the new spirit of capitalism? Does this change from an antagonistic to an affirmative relationship signal the emergence of a new spirit of art that can be related to the new spirit of capitalism? (shrink)
- Oscillation Phase Locking and Late ERP Components of Intracranial Hippocampal Recordings Correlate to Patient Performance in a Working Memory Task.Jonathan K. Kleen,Markus E. Testorf,David W. Roberts,Rod C. Scott,Barbara J. Jobst,Gregory L. Holmes &Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini -2016 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
- Illusion Only is Sacred.David Roberts -2003 -Thesis Eleven 73 (1):83-95.Integral to the modern paradigm of cultural critique is an entropic vision of the `completion' of modernity reaching from Heidegger and Adorno to Debord and Baudrillard. Are contemporary cultural developments to be grasped in terms of this `completion' or do we need a more open-ended account of capitalism and culture? The article examines two key aspects of contemporary culture, both tied to processes of aestheticization and commodification since the 18th century: the progression from the culture industry (Adorno) to the aesthetic (...) economy (Böhme), premised on the creation of aesthetic value in addition to use and exchange value; the progression from the `age of the world picture' (Heidegger) to culturalism, in which the culturalization of nature and history responds to the reduction of nature and history to standing reserves. (shrink)No categories
- On thinking: Open letter to Hannah Arendt.Agnes Heller,David Roberts &Peter Beilharz -2020 -Thesis Eleven 159 (1):23-34.Thesis Eleven is honoured to be able to publish this text by our late friend and mentor Agnes Heller. It was secured in the period before her recent death, and is published now posthumously in her memory. Echoing her earlier text written as an Imaginary Preface to Arendt’s Totalitarianism, it responds to themes in the later text, The Life of the Mind. These were among the most eminent of the minds referred to later as Women in Dark Times. Their connection (...) was not only institutional, via the New School, but represented a deep and ongoing affinity and critical engagement in political and philosophical terms. The imaginary letter arcs around issues and questions indicated by Cicero, Kant, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, including matters of republicanism, rhetoric and the question of thinking. Best of all, it shows Agnes Heller at work, at her best: it shows her thinking. Like Arendt, she offers inspiration, provocation, through thinking. (shrink)No categories
- Towards a Genealogy and Typology of Spectacle.David Roberts -2003 -Thesis Eleven 75 (1):54-68.Debord’s influential theory of the spectacle is vitiated by its lack of historical and analytical differentiation. This article draws on Debord’s own undeveloped distinction between the concentrated spectacle and the diffuse spectacle in order to propose a double genealogy and a fourfold typology of the spectacle since the French Revolution.
- György Márkus’s Theory of Cultural Modernity: Presuppositions and Extrapolations.David Roberts -2019 -Critical Horizons 20 (3):201-220.ABSTRACTMy paper aims to situate and contextualize György Márkus’s key writings on cultural modernity on the one hand in relation to their theoretical antecedents in Kant and Hegel’s conception of modern society as a society of culture and in Lukacs’s reception of Kant and Hegel in his early pre-Marxist works, and on the other hand in relation to an examination of the contemporary ramifications of certain tendencies in modern culture highlighted in Márkus’s writings. The paper is accordingly divided into two (...) parts. Part I sets out to reconstruct the presuppositions of Márkus’s theory of the high culture of classical modernity in order to bring out the descriptive strength and the analytic contribution of his approach in relation to the tradition of cultural critique in modernity, in particular in Western Marxism. Part II aims to show how Márkus’s theory of modern culture from the late eighteenth century to the end of World War II contains elements crucial to the theorization of contemporary culture, characterized by new forms of paradoxicality that go beyond his own model. (shrink)
- Introduction.David Roberts -2011 -Thesis Eleven 106 (1):3-4.
- György Markus.John Rundell &David Roberts -2017 -Thesis Eleven 138 (1):114-120.No categories
- From modernism to presentism: On the destination of art.David Roberts -2024 -Thesis Eleven 180 (1):3-14.The idea of modern art presupposes the rise of historicism and the sense of progress since the Enlightenment. Once art, however, conceives itself as progressive and hence modern, it is confronted by the paradoxes of progress: progress renders the modern obsolete at the same time as it seeks to give itself meaning by positing a goal, a destination that would be the end purpose and hence the end of progress. As a consequence, modern art is impelled to constantly transcend its (...) own achievements and limits in a utopian quest for the artwork of the future, the ultimate work of art. But what happens to art when the grand art-historical narrative of modernism collapses? I argue that the ‘modern’ mutates into the ‘contemporary’ and that art now defines itself not in relation to the future but to the present. Contemporary art understands itself as operating in the present, that is, as an art for the present. It finds its destination now in the latest institutionalization of the paradoxes of progress: the museum of contemporary art. (shrink)No categories
- Without Subject, Without Reason: Reflections on Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems.Klaus Podak &David Roberts -1986 -Thesis Eleven 13 (1):54-66.
- The Absolute Present.David Roberts -2015 -Revue Internationale de Philosophie 273 (3):279-287.Agnes Heller’s philosophy of history is divided between A Theory of History (1982) and A Philosophy of History in Fragments (1993). The one is a reflection on the stages of historical consciousness, the other is a manifestation of postmodern historical consciousness, situated between the crisis of European philosophy of history and a dawning world-historical consciousness. The crisis of European philosophy of history is defined by the irresolvable contradiction between the absolute present of Hegel’s self-knowing subject of History and the consciousness (...) of the sheer contingency of the historical present. From Hegel to Benjamin philosophy of history sought the absolute redemption of the contingent moment. It is against this philosophical legacy that Heller sets out in A Philosophy of History in Fragments to rethink the meaning of the present as absolute, not in itself but in relationship to the past and future of our present. Our absolute present is thereby revealed as inescapably paradoxical. Just as we live from the afterlife of a departed absolute spirit so the self-consciousness of our post-modernity resides in the self-consciousness with which we endow the past. Beyond this limit we must return to A Theory of History. Its reconstruction of the evolution of historical consciousness points to the emergence of a truly planetary consciousness and hence to the possibility of the end of history in a philosophy of World History. (shrink)No categories
- Introduction.Peter Murphy &David Roberts -1999 -Thesis Eleven 56 (1):3-4.No categories
- Introduction.David Roberts &Julian Triado -1985 -Thesis Eleven 12 (1):2-3.
- Democracy and Culture: the Janus Face of the Postmodern in Ferenc Feher's Writings On Aesthetics.David Roberts -1995 -Thesis Eleven 42 (1):41-51.No categories
- Introduction.David Roberts -2009 -Thesis Eleven 98 (1):3-4.
- Politics and Economy.David Roberts -1998 -Thesis Eleven 53 (1):1-9.Fundamental changes in the world economic system have resulted in a new differentiation, that between centre and periphery, between a global financial market on the one hand and production, services and labour on the other. As modern society has now become financial society, the old distinction between capital and labour has lost its informational value for party politics. The fact that the distinction between centre and periphery cannot be copied into the national political system means that economic policy can no (...) longer be decided through political choice. Politics has the task of coping with the political effects of the global financial market with the result that elections are dependent on the state of the economic cycle. Would a new political alignment involve a centre party of capital and labour against an ecological left and a `law and order' right? (shrink)
- The Weak Choice Principle WISC may Fail in the Category of Sets.David Michael Roberts -2015 -Studia Logica 103 (5):1005-1017.The set-theoretic axiom WISC states that for every set there is a set of surjections to it cofinal in all such surjections. By constructing an unbounded topos over the category of sets and using an extension of the internal logic of a topos due to Shulman, we show that WISC is independent of the rest of the axioms of the set theory given by a well-pointed topos. This also gives an example of a topos that is not a predicative topos (...) as defined by van den Berg. (shrink)
- Beyond Progress: The Museum and Montage.David Roberts -1988 -Theory, Culture and Society 5 (2-3):543-557.No categories
- The Medium of Art.Niklas Luhmann &David Roberts -1987 -Thesis Eleven 18-18 (1):101-113.No categories
- Questioning the modern and revolutionary credentials of European fascism.David D. Roberts -2012 -European Journal of Political Theory 11 (4):459-473.
- Agnes Heller: The time of your life.David Roberts -2023 -Thesis Eleven 178 (1):85-89.The following reflections, occasioned by Agnes Heller’s death, attempt to reconstruct Heller’s sense of temporality and historicity as the key to her rethinking of the idea of philosophy of history after the demise of the grand narratives in the form of a fragmentary philosophy of history and a theory of history.No categories
- (1 other version)Crowds and Power or the Natural History of Modernity: Horkheimer, Adorno, Canetti, Arendt.David Roberts -1987 -Thesis Eleven 45 (1):39-68.No categories
- Reviews : Peter and Christa Bürger, The Institutions of Art, translated by Loren Kruger, introduction by Russell A. Berman, (University of Nebraska Press, 1992).David Roberts -1994 -Thesis Eleven 39 (1):119-121.No categories
- Understanding and tackling the reproducibility crisis - Why we need to study scientists’ trust in data.Michael W. Calnan,Simon T. Kirchin,David L. Roberts,Mark N. Wass &Martin Michaelis -unknownIn the life sciences, there is an ongoing discussion about a perceived ‘reproducibility crisis’. However, it remains unclear to which extent the perceived lack of reproducibility is the consequence of issues that can be tackled and to which extent it may be the consequence of unrealistic expectations of the technical level of reproducibility. Large-scale, multi-institutional experimental replication studies are very cost- and time-intensive. This Perspective suggests an alternative, complementary approach: meta-research using sociological and philosophical methodologies to examine researcher trust in (...) data. An improved understanding of the criteria used by researchers to judge data reliability will provide crucial, initial evidence on the actual scale of the reproducibility crisis and on measures to tackle it. (shrink)
- Aura and Aesthetics of Nature.David Roberts -1993 -Thesis Eleven 36 (1):127-137.
- Between Home and World: Agnes Heller's the Concept of the Beautiful.David Roberts -1999 -Thesis Eleven 59 (1):95-101.
- Marxism, Modernism, Postmodernism.David Roberts -1985 -Thesis Eleven 12 (1):53-63.
- Introduction.Johann P. Arnason,David Roberts &Peter Beilharz -2000 -Thesis Eleven 63 (1):3-3.
- Singular Histories And Plural Rationality.Gérard Raulet &David Roberts -1987 -Thesis Eleven 18-18 (1):85-100.No categories
- Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money: Reflexions on the Relation Between Philosophy and History.David Roberts -1996 -Thesis Eleven 44 (1):12-27.
- Brecht : Epic Form and Realism a Reconsideration.David Roberts -1982 -Thesis Eleven 5-5 (1):32-58.
- Introduction.David Roberts &Trevor Hogan -2000 -Thesis Eleven 61 (1):3-4.No categories
- The Postmodernity of Art: Beyond Hegel and Adorno.David Roberts -1987 -Thesis Eleven 18-18 (1):114-123.No categories
- Introduction.David Roberts -1997 -Thesis Eleven 51 (1):3-4.
- Overtures of reconciliation in a forgotten conflict.Roger Griffin &David D. Roberts -2012 -European Journal of Political Theory 11 (4):354-361.
- The Historikerstreit the Self-Understanding of the Federal Republic and the Self-Understanding of a Generation: Jürgen Habermas and Günter Grass.David Roberts -1991 -Thesis Eleven 30 (1):33-55.
- Reviews : Kieren Flanagan, Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy (London, Macmillan, 1991).David Roberts -1994 -Thesis Eleven 37 (1):157-159.No categories
- Introduction: Weimar social theory.Austin Harrington &David Roberts -2012 -Thesis Eleven 111 (1):3-8.The collapse of the Weimar Republic remains central to the history of the 20th century and to contemporary debates on 'classical modernity' and its Europe-wide crisis in the wake of the First World War. The present issue of Thesis Eleven focuses on three dimensions of the Weimar crisis: the experience of fundamental societal crisis and closure and its diagnostic power in relation to the rise of fascist movements; the cognitive and normative resources that sought to work against this crisis-ridden sense (...) of closure; and third, the degree to which these counter tendencies anticipate postmodern interrogations of the premises of classical modernity. (shrink)
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