Charlotta Weigelt

Charlotta Weigelt is a Swedish philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. Her principal areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and phenomenology. In 2002, she received her doctorate with a dissertation titled The Logic of Life: Heidegger’s Retrieval of Aristotle’s Concept of Logos, a study that illustrates a central theme of her work: modern philosophy’s engagement with the Greek legacy, particularly Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotle.

A substantial part of Weigelt’s research is devoted to ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. She has studied Plato’s political philosophy, the concepts of politics and governance, Socrates, and the relationship between philosophy and political life. Her works include Socrates and the Possibility of Political Art and Socrates: The Philosopher’s Many Faces. She has also collaborated with Hans Ruin and Olof Pettersson on a research project concerning Plato’s political philosophy.

Alongside her philosophical research, Weigelt translates classical Greek works into Swedish. She translated Aristotle’s Physics in 2017 and the Nicomachean Ethics in 2023 and has also worked on a translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In 2025, the Swedish Academy awarded her its translators’ prize in recognition of her translations of Aristotle.

Weigelt’s intellectual work stands at the intersection of the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophy. On the one hand, she engages in close readings of Plato and Aristotle; on the other, she examines how this legacy persists and is reinterpreted in phenomenology, particularly in Heidegger’s thought. Her research on Socrates and Plato’s political philosophy also pursues questions concerning the nature of philosophy, the possibility of political governance, and the relationship among knowledge, philosophy, and collective life.