Olivier Agard

Olivier Agard, a professor of German intellectual history at Sorbonne Université Paris, has published monographs on Siegfried Kracauer, including *Le chiffonnier mélancolique* (Paris, 2010), and on Max Scheler: *Max Scheler ou l’esprit vivant. Enquête sur les sources françaises de l’anthropologie philosophique allemande* (Paris, 2012). He co-edited the volumes *Kulturkritik in Deutschland und Frankreich (1860–1933)* (with B. Beßlich, Frankfurt am Main, 2016) and *Krieg für die Kultur? Une guerre pour la civilisation?* (with B. Beßlich, Frankfurt am Main, 2018). His research has focused on philosophical anthropology, cultural criticism, Siegfried Kracauer, Elias Canetti, and French-German exchanges in philosophy and sociology.