Lea Ypi FBA (born 8 September 1979) [1] is an Albanian academic and author. She is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics. [2]

Lea Ypi (FBA, FAE, FAA) is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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.

Dec 26, 2023 · In February, 2020, the Albanian-British philosopher Lea Ypi found herself in a closet trying to write a book about freedom. Ypi, who is a professor of political theory at the London School of...

Lea Ypi is author, academic, and currently Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. She is the author of “The Meaning of Partisanship” (2016) and “Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency” (2011).

May 23, 2022 · In her award-winning memoir Free, Lea Ypi reflects on the paradoxes of freedom through her recollections of coming of age at the collapse of communist Albania in December 1990 and its transition from Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship to a presumably freer, capitalist and more democratic nation.

Oct 28, 2021 · In this wide-ranging conversation with Ferenc Laczó, Lea Ypi discusses her new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History and how the people who populate its pages help her connect historical experiences with philosophical thought; how she experienced and dealt with the rupture of 1990 that forced her to reassess her childhood; how that ...

Lea Ypi is a professor of political theory in the Government Department at the London School of Economics and associate professor in philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.

Lea Ypi grounds egalitarian principles on claims arising from conflicts over the distribution of global positional goods, and illustrates the role of avant-garde agents in shaping these conflicts and promoting democratic political transformations in response to them.

Jun 1, 2022 · Ypi's deliciously smart memoir of her Albanian girlhood at the end of the Cold War is a brilliant disquisition on the meanings of freedom - its lures, false hopes, disappointments and possibilities - in our time - Lyndsey Stonebridge, New Statesman, Books of the Year