Kluge Prize
The Kluge Prize , named after John W. Kluge , is an international science award . It is awarded at irregular intervals for life's work in the humanities and social sciences that are not covered by Nobel Prizes and is usually endowed with a million dollars. In 2015 the prize money was $ 1.5 million and in 2020 it was $ 500,000.
overview
The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress awards the prize . Given that the United States has strongly promoted the humanities, the award will be presented in the Great Hall of the Library's Jefferson Building. The winners then work for a short time at the library and are expected to meet informally with members of the United States Congress .
The prize was donated by the library patron John W. Kluge . The award-winning disciplines include history, philosophy, politics, anthropology, sociology, religion, art history, literature and linguistics.
Award winners
- 2003 - Leszek Kołakowski
- 2004 - Jaroslav Pelikan and Paul Ricœur
- 2006 - John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih
- 2008 - Romila Thapar and Peter Brown
- 2012 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- 2015 - Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor
- 2018 - Drew Gilpin Faust
- 2020 - Danielle Allen
Web links
- Library of Congress: Kluge Prize
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Welle: "Nobel Prize in Philosophy" for Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor. In: dw.com. September 30, 2015, accessed July 1, 2018 .