Roger Sworder

Dr. Roger Sworder (1946-2016) was for many years Head of the Department of Arts at La Trobe University Bendigo where he lectured in Philosophy, Religious Studies and Literature. His particular interests included the pre-Socratic philosophers and Plato, traditional theories of work and art, and Romanticism. He is the author of books on Homer, Parmenides, and Plato, and of the books Mining, Metallurgy and the Meaning of Life (1995), A Contrary History of the West (2011), and The Romantic Attack on Modern Science (2015).

Roger Sworder’s article “The Desacralisation of Work” can be found in the anthology from World Wisdom, The Betrayal of Tradition: The Spiritual Crisis of Modernity, edited by Harry Oldmeadow.