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Lea Ypi | |
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 Ypi in a video from the British Library in 2022 | |
| Born | 8 September 1979 (age 44) Tirana, Albania |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Critical theory |
Main interests | Political theory, Enlightenment, Marxism, Nationalism |
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Lea Ypi (born 8 September 1979)[1] is an Albanian academic and author. She is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics.[2] In 2022, she was named one of the world's top ten thinkers by the British magazine Prospect[3] and one of the most important cultural figures by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[4] She was named one of the six most important thinkers of 2023 by El Pais.[5] Her work has been translated in 30 languages and won numerous prizes, including the British Academy "Brian Barry" Prize for excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research achievements. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2020[6] and is a member of the jury of the Deutscher Memorial Prize.[7]
- ^ "About Me". Archived from the original on 2013-05-11.
- ^ "Academic page".
- ^ "World's Top Thinkers 2022: the results". Prospect. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ^ "Die Kulturpersonen 2022". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German).
- ^ Ideas (2023-12-31). "Seis pensadores que marcaron el año 2023". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
- ^ "Ypi, Lea".
- ^ "The Deutscher Memorial Prize".