W&J: William C. Roberts

Will Roberts’ research and teaching center around the history of philosophy (especially Ancient Greek and 19th Century philosophy), the intersection of philosophy and literature, and political philosophy. He is currently engaged in two writing projects: 1) investigating the role of entelekheia in Aristotle’s philosophy and its influence on Epicurean and Stoic ethics; and 2) discussing the structural and rhetorical similarities between Dante’s Inferno and Marx’s Capital. He has presented his research at the American Philosophical Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, and the Marx and Philosophy Society, among other venues. Professor Roberts is the author of “Marx in Hell: The Critique of Political Economy as Katabasis” (Journal of Critical Sociology, 31:2, Spring 2005, pp. 37-53); and “Marx Contra the Democrats: The Force of The Eighteenth Brumaire” (Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics, 16:1, May 2003, pp 51-64).