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Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. There was community and hope. Then, in December 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything changed.
In this conversation with Martin Hägglund, philosopher and political theorist Lea Ypi discusses her extraordinary memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval, tracing the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Her two latest books are "Free: Coming of Age at the End of History" (Allen Lane) and "The Architectonic of Reason" (Oxford University Press). twitter.com/lea_ypi
Martin Hägglund is Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale. His hugely popular 2019 book "This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free" was named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, NRC, and The Sydney Morning Herald. New York Magazine selected it as one of the essential books to read during the pandemic, and Prospect Magazine named Hägglund one of the world’s top 50 thinkers. This Life was awarded the René Wellek Prize, the most prestigious honour bestowed by the American Comparative Literature Association. twitter.com/martinhaegglund
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