Saul Anton

Saul Anton’s research interests include critical theory, aesthetics, and the visual arts, modern and contemporary art and culture, the European Enlightenment, and continental philosophy. He has published scholarly articles about Diderot, Rousseau, Kant, Winckelmann, Agamben, Nancy, and others. He is the author of Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (2015), and the experimental critical fiction Warhol’s Dream (2007), and the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (Stanford University Press, 2008). Most recently, he edited and contributed an essay to Roxy Paine: The Dioramas (Skira, 2021). His cultural journalism and criticism has appeared in Artforum, frieze, Bookforum, Afterall, Bomb, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor of Cabinet magazine.

His current project, After Versailles: Sovereignty and Ruins in the French Enlightenment, is an interdisciplinary book-length study of aesthetics and politics in the French Enlightenment leading up to the French Revolution that considers a wide range cultural history and theory, political philosophy, literature, art criticism, painting, and architecture. 

He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

At Pratt, Saul teaches a wide range of courses, including Horror and Monstrosity, World Literature, Intensive Film Theory, and Contemporary Media Theory. He is the former Coordinator of the Architecture Degree Projects Writing Program, in which he teaches regularly.

One day, he might have a website.

Ph.D. Princeton University