Philosophical Book Prize
The Philosophical Book Prize is a science prize that has been awarded every two years since 2010 by the Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover (FIPH) for the best new publication in the last three years on a current topic in practical philosophy .
The book award is intended to draw attention to contemporary philosophical questions. The “Philosophical Book Prize” is not restricted to specialist philosophical publications, but the book must stimulate philosophical questions. Books from selected book publishers with a philosophical program are nominated.
As of 2016, the prize is endowed with 3000 euros.
jury
The jury in 2016 consisted of Ulrich Hemel , Markus Kotzur , Armin Nassehi , Birgit Recki , Thomas M. Schmidt , Werner Schreer , Jörg-Dieter Wächter and Saskia Wendel .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | plant | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Andreas Lienkamp | Climate change and justice. An ethic of sustainability in a Christian perspective , Paderborn, Schöningh 2009 ISBN 978-3-506-76675-5 | “The subject of the book is climate change, whether it is possible to think about climate change in such a way that knowledge leads to action. The focus of the book is not on scientific and climatological research, but on considerations based on the findings of the natural sciences about possibilities and prognoses of political practice. " |
| 2012 | Avishai Margalit | About compromises and lazy compromises , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-518-58564-1 | “The thesis of the book is that civilizations claim to reduce violence to a minimum. At the beginning of the 21st century, however, civilizations would find themselves entangled again in new violent contexts. Violence is not only experienced as an external threat, modern societies are rather confronted with violence from within. The author asks the questions of how the threats from violence as experienced today differ from past ones, which forms of violence are to be distinguished and how organizations and individuals react to violence and whether and how current forms of experience of violence change thinking. " |
| 2014 | Sascha Dickel | Enhancement utopias. Sociological analyzes on the construction of the new man , Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2011 ISBN 978-3-8329-6364-4 | “The work deals with the topic of self-optimization . Using case reconstructions, Dickel provides insights into various designs of human self-optimization, which are intended to encourage the reader to think along. It deals with the question of how the advocates of enhancement succeed in countering the postmodern diagnosis of the end of utopias with a new type of utopias. In these, the control of nature takes the place of the control of society, a new person takes the place of a new society. " |
| 2016 | Albrecht Koschorke | Hegel and us. Frankfurt Adorno Lectures 2013 , Suhrkamp Verlag 2015 ISBN 978-3-518-58620-4 | “Koschorke knows how to sound out the question of the opportunities and limits of a Europe narrative by comparing Hegel's philosophy of history and the present. His train of thought offers a profound contextualization of Hegel's philosophy of history, through which the author succeeds in convincingly working out the meaning of the narrative in Hegel. Against the background of this big narrative, Koschorke reveals the task for Europe today. Europe's future is not the future of a great nation, its narratives are based on post-heroism. " |
| 2018 | Isolde Charim | Me and the others. How the new pluralization changes us all , Paul Zsolnay Verlag 2018 ISBN 978-3552058880 | “Charim succeeds in analyzing the experience of pluralization and its social effects in a philosophically adept, differentiated, vivid and with the necessary sensitivity. It not only makes an important contribution to the socio-political debates about identity politics, (right‐ wing) populism and religious fundamentalism, but also to the necessary process of self-assurance. " |
Web links
- ↑ Awarding of the Philosophical Book Prize 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FIPH awards Philosophical Book Prize 2012 to Avishai Margalit ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 655 kB), press release
- ↑ Sascha Dickel receives the Philosophical Book Prize 2014. Press release from August 20, 2014 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de)
- ↑ Albrecht Koschorke receives the Philosophical Book Prize 2016. Press release from July 11, 2016 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de)
- ↑ Ana Honnacker: Isolde Charim receives the Philosophical Book Prize 2018. Research Institute for Philosophy Hanover, press release from March 16, 2018 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on March 16, 2018.
