Olivier Schefer

Lives and works in Paris (France).

Olivier Schefer is a writer and philosopher.

He teaches Aesthetics at the University of Paris I. Translator and interpreter of Novalis' philosophical fragments, he devotes his work to the contemporary echoes of Romanticism, to the figures of the somnambulist and the revenant, as well as to the problematic of ruins and entropy. He has recently published an essay entitled Sur Robert Smithson, Variations dialectiques (La Lettre Volée, 2021).