Johan Tralau
Johan Tralau is a Swedish political scientist and writer. He teaches at Uppsala University where he is Professor of Government since 2015. His 2002 Ph.D. thesis concerns utopian ideas in the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and their development in the writings of Karl Marx and Ernst Jünger. Tralau's subsequent research has focused on the origin of political philosophy in ancient Greece and on Thomas Hobbes. In 2013 he received the Johan Lundblad Award from the Swedish Academy for his work on ancient Greece. His 2015 book Monstret i mig is about mythological monsters and what roles such myths have played in traditional societies.
In 2007 and 2008 he hosted the television program Kanon-TV on Axess TV.
