SIAF Veranstaltung mit Prof. Dr. Lea Ypi | Freedom under Capitalism | 26.10.2023

In this lecture, Lea Ypi discusses the promise of freedom under capitalism and some of the contradictions it involves. She argues that we need to return to the core definition of the Enlightenment as the “emergence from people’s self-incurred immaturity” and develop a new critique of society, able to challenge the political and economic institutions of the present and to develop a radical democratic global alternative.
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About Professor Lea Ypi
Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She is the author of “Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency”, “The Meaning of Partisanship” (with Jonathan White), and “The Architectonic of Reason”, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, Free, published by Penguin Press and translated into more than twenty-five languages, has won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Her academic work has been recognized with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement.