Anthony C Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 461219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony C Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony C |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yonsei University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2341-9651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Substance Abuse: Addiction and Crisis in Wittgenstein
Giorgio Agamben. Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (The Italian List)
Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Canon
This essay argues that Hölderlin develops a new understanding of canonicity by way of related concepts such as law, measure, and harmony. The final version of his novel Hyperion “bends” the straight rule of the canon—the metaphor underlying the notion of a literary canon—against itself, transforming it into a Heraclitean bow: a dynamic play of conflicting tones or voices. Diotima, the novel’s female protagonist, has an especially important role i…
The Catastrophe to Come: Lyotard’s Differend and the Tragedy of the Ecological
Taking its departure from The Differend’s analysis of Auschwitz as a sign for the evental character of history, I argue that the looming ecological disaster we now face reveals both the continuing relevance and limits of Lyotard’s thought. While the form of political agency of the catastrophe to come involves a differend, this differend cannot be attached to a proper name, however problematic its mode of signification. This, however, suggests the…
Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash. New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores th…
Tobias, Rochelle, editor. Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature
What’s the Deal? Trump, Fichte’s Closed Commercial State, and the Perverse Dialectic of Neoliberal Risk
Philosophy Interrupted: Agamben’sunspeakable Girland the Counter-Phenomenology of Initiation
The Unspeakable Girl is more important for Agamben's thought than its short length, antiquarianism, and belletristic format suggest. In discussing ancient initiation rites through an analysis of the figure of the Kore – the unspeakable girl – it suggests how we might conceive of initiation into form-of-life, thus addressing a pressing question that emerges from Agamben's Homo Sacer project: if Agamben's thought aims at the demystification of phil…
Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmenta…
A Friendship of Words: Philology and Prophesy in Hölderlin’s “Rousseau”
Taking its departure from Norbert von Hellingrath’s interpretation of the significance of Rousseau for Friedrich Hölderlin, the following paper argues, through a close reading of the poem “Rousseau,” that Hölderlin, contra Hellingrath, conceives of his relation to Rousseau in philological rather than prophetic terms. Looking closely at the complexities of Hölderlin’s manuscript while contrasting the philological approaches of Freidrich Beißner’s …
Deconfabulation: Agamben's Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience
Agamben's self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History , Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking back to an authentic yet esoteric experience that, itself unspeakable, grounds positive philosophical…
Fractured Life and the Ambiguity of Historical Time: Biopolitics in Agamben and Arendt
Agamben’s debt to Michel Foucault, from whom he borrows the term “biopolitics,” is well documented. But of equal importance for his theorization of the relation between sovereignty and bare life is the political thought of Hannah Arendt, and especially her masterpiece The Human Condition, which, as Agamben explains in the introduction to Homo Sacer I, had anticipated the biopolitical horizon of Foucault’s History of Sexuality by twenty years (199…
The Abject Life of Things: H.c. Andersen's Sentimentality
This paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality – the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze – Andersen challenges the existence of the soul or subjectivity as what, by combining the theoretical gaze with contemplative pleasure, grants coherence…
The practical absolute: Fichte’s hidden poetics
The Intermedial Gesture: Agamben and Kommerell
Philosophy Interrupted: Agamben’sunspeakable Girland the Counter-Phenomenology of Initiation
The Unspeakable Girl is more important for Agamben's thought than its short length, antiquarianism, and belletristic format suggest. In discussing ancient initiation rites through an analysis of the figure of the Kore – the unspeakable girl – it suggests how we might conceive of initiation into form-of-life, thus addressing a pressing question that emerges from Agamben's Homo Sacer project: if Agamben's thought aims at the demystification of phil…
Deconfabulation: Agamben's Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience
Agamben's self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History , Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking back to an authentic yet esoteric experience that, itself unspeakable, grounds positive philosophical…
The practical absolute: Fichte’s hidden poetics
The Intermedial Gesture: Agamben and Kommerell
The Abject Life of Things: H.c. Andersen's Sentimentality
This paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality – the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze – Andersen challenges the existence of the soul or subjectivity as what, by combining the theoretical gaze with contemplative pleasure, grants coherence…
Fractured Life and the Ambiguity of Historical Time: Biopolitics in Agamben and Arendt
Agamben’s debt to Michel Foucault, from whom he borrows the term “biopolitics,” is well documented. But of equal importance for his theorization of the relation between sovereignty and bare life is the political thought of Hannah Arendt, and especially her masterpiece The Human Condition, which, as Agamben explains in the introduction to Homo Sacer I, had anticipated the biopolitical horizon of Foucault’s History of Sexuality by twenty years (199…
A Friendship of Words: Philology and Prophesy in Hölderlin’s “Rousseau”
Taking its departure from Norbert von Hellingrath’s interpretation of the significance of Rousseau for Friedrich Hölderlin, the following paper argues, through a close reading of the poem “Rousseau,” that Hölderlin, contra Hellingrath, conceives of his relation to Rousseau in philological rather than prophetic terms. Looking closely at the complexities of Hölderlin’s manuscript while contrasting the philological approaches of Freidrich Beißner’s …
Deconfabulation: Agamben's Italian Categories and the Impossibility of Experience
Agamben's self-professed epigonism underwrites his entire project, serving as an even more fundamental methodological concept than the signature, paradigm, and archeology. In Infancy and History , Agamben maintains that transcendental experience is no longer a viable source of philosophical insight; philosophers go astray referring their thinking back to an authentic yet esoteric experience that, itself unspeakable, grounds positive philosophical…
Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmenta…
What’s the Deal? Trump, Fichte’s Closed Commercial State, and the Perverse Dialectic of Neoliberal Risk
Philosophy Interrupted: Agamben’sunspeakable Girland the Counter-Phenomenology of Initiation
The Unspeakable Girl is more important for Agamben's thought than its short length, antiquarianism, and belletristic format suggest. In discussing ancient initiation rites through an analysis of the figure of the Kore – the unspeakable girl – it suggests how we might conceive of initiation into form-of-life, thus addressing a pressing question that emerges from Agamben's Homo Sacer project: if Agamben's thought aims at the demystification of phil…
Tobias, Rochelle, editor. Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature
The Catastrophe to Come: Lyotard’s Differend and the Tragedy of the Ecological
Taking its departure from The Differend’s analysis of Auschwitz as a sign for the evental character of history, I argue that the looming ecological disaster we now face reveals both the continuing relevance and limits of Lyotard’s thought. While the form of political agency of the catastrophe to come involves a differend, this differend cannot be attached to a proper name, however problematic its mode of signification. This, however, suggests the…
Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal–visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash. New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores th…
Giorgio Agamben. Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (The Italian List)
Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Canon
This essay argues that Hölderlin develops a new understanding of canonicity by way of related concepts such as law, measure, and harmony. The final version of his novel Hyperion “bends” the straight rule of the canon—the metaphor underlying the notion of a literary canon—against itself, transforming it into a Heraclitean bow: a dynamic play of conflicting tones or voices. Diotima, the novel’s female protagonist, has an especially important role i…
Substance Abuse: Addiction and Crisis in Wittgenstein
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