Jordi Graupera
Jordi Graupera i Garcia-Milà is a Catalan political philosopher and politician. He works on self-determination and international relations. He works as a philosophy professor at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, teaching on globalization, cultural traditions, and creative thinking. He also works teaching history of social thought at the Open University of Catalonia.
Biography
He received a PhD in Political Philosophy from The New School for Social Research with a critique of the liberal theory of the state, and has taught at Saint Francis College, NYU, Parsons School of Architecture and Design, and Princeton University, where he did his post-doc.He has worked a journalist for several media in Catalonia and in Spain. In 2019, he ran for Mayor of Barcelona, but his political platform, Barcelona és capital, did not get more than 5% of the votes, the threshold for representation in Barcelona City Council.
His research interests focus on contemporary political theory, early modern political philosophy, and the history of culture in the Iberian Peninsula. He is the author of Una idea per Barcelona and La Supèrbia. He has worked as a journalist, op-ed writer, cultural critic, correspondent and political analyst. At Stanford, he has held the Josep Pla Visiting Professorship in Catalan Studies in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.
A long-form piece by Graupera about the final university course taught by philosopher Richard J. Bernstein was published in The New Yorker in January 2023.
In 2024, Graupera and Clara Ponsatí launched Alhora, a new political party in favour of Catalan independence but critical of existing pro-independence parties. Graupera was placed second on the party list for the 2024 elections to the Catalan Parliament, however he was not elected, as the party failed win enough votes to gain any representation in the Parliament.