Anthony Curtis Adler is a professor of German and comparative literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in South Korea. His most recent books include Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life (2016), Politics and Truth in Hölderlin: ‘Hyperion’ and the Choreographic Project of Modernity (2021), and Bong Joon Ho: Philosopher and Filmmaker (2025).
Anthony Curtis Adler
Articles
The Useless Prophet
Anthony Curtis Adler considers the new translation of Walter Benjamin’s “On Goethe” from Stanford University Press.
Jena Romanticism and the Art of Being Selfish: On Andrea Wulf’s “Magnificent Rebels”
Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Andrea Wulf’s “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self.”
Public Catastrophes, Private Retreats
Anthony Curtis Adler connects with Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor’s “A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life.”
Stonewalling Philosophy: Envisioning Silence in an Age of Noise
On Mark C. Taylor’s “Seeing Silence,” recently released by University of Chicago Press.
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