Meister Eckhart Prize

The Meister Eckhart Prize is an endowment founded by the German Identity Foundation Science Award, which is awarded since 2001, since 2007 in collaboration with the University of Cologne.

The 50,000- euro prize is named after the great theologian and philosopher Meister Eckhart (~ 1260-1328 ) named and is usually awarded every two years.

With the award of Meister Eckhart Prize persons are to be honored, the " deal in their work with the contradictions of personal, social and cross-cultural identity of the people and the trigger through their knowledge and work of a discourse in a wider public " be.

Award winners

  • 2001: Richard Rorty, American philosopher ( Presented by: Jürgen Habermas)
  • 2003: Claude Lévi -Strauss, French ethnologist and anthropologist ( Presented by: Werner Spies)
  • 2005: Ernst Tugendhat, German philosopher ( Presented by: Jan Philipp Reemtsma )
  • 2007: Amartya Sen, Indian economist and Nobel Prize winner ( Presented by: Carl Christian von Weizsäcker )
  • 2009: Amitai Etzioni, American -Israeli sociologist ( Presented by: Axel Honneth )
  • 2012: Michel Serres, French philosopher ( laudator: Petra Gehring )
  • 2014: Seyla Benhabib, American political philosopher

Identity Foundation

The Identity Foundation is a 1998 by Margret and Paul J. Kohtes, the founders of the public relations agency Kohtes & Klewes (now Ketchum Pleon ) foundation established. Board of the Foundation are Paul J. Kohtes (Chairman ) and Ulrich -free life. The aim of the foundation is " to explore new areas being and to try different approaches, such as during an investigation into identities opinion-forming target groups or in the development of themes that define the zeitgeist in a special way. "

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