About
Anthony Curtis Adler is professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei’s Underwood International College in South Korea, where he has taught since 2006. He is the author of Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life (Fordham: 2016), a critical edition of Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State, and a short book titled The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the Trauerspiel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also published numerous articles, in such journals as Continental Philosophy Review, Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Diacritics, and Seminar. He is currently working on a book on Friedrich Hoelderlin’s Hyperion. Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005, German Literature and Critical Thought.
Fulbright Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs Universität (Freiburg, Germany), 1994-1995, Philosophy.
A.B., Princeton University, 1994, Cum Laude in Religion.
Work Shared in CORE
Monographs
Articles
Book chapters
Conference papers
Other Publications
BOOKS
1. Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget-Commodity-Life. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2016. (Subject of an online symposium on syndicate.network, organized by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and featuring essays by Hannah Markley, Adam Kotsko, Monique Rooney, Jan Mieszkowski and Ronald Mendoza-de Jesus)
2. The Afterlife of Genre: Remnants of the ‘Trauerspiel’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2013.
3. Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, The Closed Commercial State: Translation and Interpretive Essay. Tr. and ed. Anthony Adler. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012.
BOOK CHAPTERS
4. “Unspeakable Trash: Heidegger, Philip K. Dick, and the Philosophy of Horror.” In Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy. Eds. Nahum Brown and J. Aaron Simmons. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. (Forthcoming)
5. “The Biopolitics of Noise: Kafka’s Der Bau.” In Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space. Ed. Sander von Maas. Bronx, NY: Fordham, 2015.
6. “Sensual Idealism: the Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of Finitude in Kant and Hölderlin.” In Epicurean Movements. Ed. Brooke Holmes and Wilson Shearin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
7. “Analog in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Audiophilia, Semi-Aura, and the Cultural Memory of the Phonograph.” In Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace. Ed. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. Bronx, NY: Fordham, 2012.
A&HCI-INDEXED JOURNAL ARTICLES
8. “Deconfabulation: Agamben’s Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience.” Diacritics 43.3 (2015).
9. “A Friendship of Words: Philology and Prophesy in Hölderlin’s ‘Rousseau.'” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 51.3 (2015).
10. “Managing the Unmanageable: Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory and the Dance of Political Economy.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. 40.2 (2014): 149-174.
11. “Fractured Life and the Ambiguity of Historical Time: Biopolitics in Agamben and Arendt.” Cultural Critique. 86 (2014): 1-30.
12. “The Abject Life of Things: H.C. Andersen’s Sentimentality.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 17.1 (2012): 115-130.
13. “The Intermedial Gesture: Agamben and Kommerell.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 12.3 (2007): 57-64.
14. “The Practical Absolute: Fichte’s Hidden Poetics.” Continental Philosophy Review 40.4 (2007): 407-433
OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES
15. “Goethes Welten – Weltlichkeit und Weltliteratur in den Wahlverwandtschaften.” Zeitschrift der koreanischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik 128 (2013): 115-137.
16. “Hölderlin’s ‘Mnemosyne’. Philology, Literary Nationalism, and the Myth of the Monolingual.” Journal of the Korean Comparative Literature Association 60 (2013): 281-302.
17. “The Choreographic Writing of the Law in Plato’s Nomoi.” Journal of the Criticism and Theory Society of Korea 15.2 (2010): 231-263.
18. “Goethe’s Asses: Wilhelm Meister’s Apuleian Theology of Curiosity and the Prospect of a World Literature.” Journal of the Korean Comparative Literature Association 52 (2010): 235-254.
19. “Dienst, Schrift, und Bewegung in Jakob von Gunten: Robert Walsers choreographische Metapolitik.” Zeitschrift der koreanischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik 110 (2009): 85-107.
20. “The other Lilliput: Commodity-Life and the Discontinuous Space of Television.” Situations 3 (2009)
