Olof Lagercrantz is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Olof Lagercrantz as Swedish writer, critic, and literary scholar (1911–2002).
Olof Lagercrantz was born at Hedvig Eleonora parish in 1911. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
The recorded fields of work are literature, poetry and biography.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Karlfeldt Prize (1988).
That the work was done from Sweden matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Olof Lagercrantz died in 2002, aged 91. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Karlfeldt Prize — 1988
- Fields: literature, poetry and biography
