Martin Hagglund

Martin Hägglund

Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Humanities, and Philosophy

Martin Hägglund is the author of four widely reviewed and highly acclaimed books, which have been translated into fifteen languages. His work has been the subject of multiple conferences and journal volumes, including a full-length edition of The New Centennial Review, a symposium in Los Angeles Review of Books, and a special issue of The Philosopher. He has lectured at venues around the world, and his writings have featured in The New York Times and New Statesman

Hägglund was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2009, awarded The Schück Prize by the Swedish Academy in 2014, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. His most recent book, This Life (2019), won the prestigious René Wellek Prize. A volume devoted to his work, A New Hegelian Marxism: Debating Martin Hägglund’s This Life, ed. Michael Lazarus, is forthcoming from Routledge. 

Areas of Interest:

Post-Kantian philosophy

Aristotelian metaphysics

Hegel & German Idealism

Marx & Critical Theory

Phenomenology & Hermeneutics

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Biology

Contact Info

martin.hagglund@yale.edu