Saul Anton is a critic and a theorist whose work explores the intersection of aesthetics, political thought, and critical theory. As a scholar, his work focuses on the French Enlightenment, modern aesthetics, and cultural theory. He has published articles and essays on Diderot, Winckelmann, and Rousseau, as well as on contemporary theorists such as Agamben, Foucault, and Nancy. He has also written widely on contemporary art and culture. His art criticism and cultural journalism have appeared in Artforum, frieze, Afterall, and Bookforum, among other publications. He is the author of Lee Friedlander's Little Screens (MIT Press, 2015) and the innovative work of experimental critical writing, Warhol's Dream (les presses du réel, 2007). He is the translator of Jean-Luc Nancy's Discourse of the Syncope (Stanford University Press) and the editor of Roxy Paine: Dioramas (Skira, 2021).

His current book project, Sovereignty in Ruins: Aesthetics, Form, and the Afterlives of Political Authority examines how images, texts, and objects both stage and fracture the claims of power and traces an alternate genealogy of political authority through aesthetic form, from Versailles and Diderot's fragments to photography and contemporary continental thought.

Currently, he is Associate Professor, CCE in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at the Pratt Institute. He earned a BA from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Princeton University. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the J. Paul Getty Center, and the Princeton University Council of International Studies. He will be a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome in May and June 2026.