Ebba Witt-Brattström

Swedish literary scholar and feminist (born 1953)

In the history of thought, Ebba Witt-Brattström is one of the names that keeps being returned to.

The record lists Ebba Witt-Brattström as Swedish literary scholar and feminist (born 1953).

Ebba Witt-Brattström was born at Stockholm in 1953. Her recorded nationality is Sweden. She studied at Stockholm University and Franska Skolan.

Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.

Her academic posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Södertörn University.

The recorded fields of work are literary studies and feminism.

The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.

That the work was done from Sweden matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Ebba Witt-Brattström is still working, and the final assessment of the contribution has not been made.

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