The Vice-Chancellor’s Democracy Forum - Lea Ypi

What does freedom mean in an age of populism and autocracy?

Is it a libertarian concept of individual rights, a liberal concept balanced by mutual obligations or a social democratic concept of the public good?

Professor Lea Ypi is a leading thinker not just in the philosophy of freedom but its practice, having grown up under dictatorship in Albania, an experience chronicled in her award winning book Free.

Lea Ypi will be talking with UTS Emeritus Professor Roy Green about the precarious future of Western societies. 

Ypi

Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. 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 work has been translated in over twenty languages and recognised with several prizes such as the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. Her latest book Free. Coming of Age at the End of History published by Penguin Press recently won the Ondaatje Literary Price and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize.

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