Martin Hägglund

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Martin Hägglund (born 23 November 1976) is a Swedish philosopher and scholar of modernist literature. He is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is also a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, serving as a Junior Fellow from 2009 to 2012. Hägglund is the author of ''This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom'' (2019), ''Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov'' (2012), ''Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life'' (2008), and ''Kronofobi: Essäer om tid och ändlighet'' (''Chronophobia: Essays on Time and Finitude'', 2002). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and won the René Wellek Prize in 2020. In 2024 Hägglund was awarded Jan Myrdal’s big prize – The Lenin Award.