Martin Hägglund specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature in French, German, English, and Scandinavian languages. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and the Humanities at Yale University, where he has taught courses on Heidegger’s Being and Time, the temporality of narrative from Conrad to Beckett, and the mortality of the soul from Aristotle to John McDowell. Professor Hägglund is the author of four acclaimed books, dealing with philosophers of time (from Kant to Husserl and Derrida), theorists of desire (from St. Augustine to Freud and Lacan), modern writers (Proust, Woolf, Nabokov), and the legacy of German idealism (from Hegel to Marx and beyond). His books have been the subject of lectures and colloquia at Harvard, Yale, NYU, Cornell, and Oxford. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Bogliasco Foundation. Elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2009, he received the Schück Prize from the Swedish Academy in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and he has lectured widely around the world. Recipient of the René Wellek Prize, This Life: Why Religion and Capitalism Do Not Make Us Free (2019) has been named 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 readings during the pandemic.
