Hannah Arendt Prize

With the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought since 1995, honors individuals who contribute to the tradition of political theorist Hannah Arendt to public political thought and action.

Arrangements for awarding

About the annual awarding of the Prize by an international jury. The prize money of 7500 € is sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The legal and political support of the award is the association Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, which aligns well as conferences and publications out there.

Target

The Hannah Arendt Prize in 1994 founded with the intention to stimulate public debate on contentious political issues - in the spirit of Arendt's dictum: "The meaning of politics is freedom. " Plays a special role in Arendt's theoretical and practical commitment to totalitarian regime, a commitment that does not become history by the end of the Cold War, but in the context of efforts to global democratization and justice continues to be up to date.

The founders want with the price not only academic achievement, but a work in the public excel. " Will be honored those who believed the venture public and recognize the Novel in a seemingly linearly continued writing world think and act and communicate. ": For self- understanding, it is called

Criticism

In 2007, the Bureau of the Jewish community Bremen expressed irritation about the awarding of the prize to Tony Judt, which they accused of anti-Zionist propaganda, which conceal the jury in its grounds. In addition, the community complained that the award ceremony on a Friday evening and the subsequent discussion event held on a Saturday morning. This would Jews who want to celebrate the Shabbat, excluded from participation.

Award winners

  • 2013 Timothy Snyder, American historian
  • 2011 Navid Kermani, German - Persian Orientalist
  • 2010 François Jullien, French philosopher and sinologist
  • 2009 Kurt Flasch, German historians of philosophy
  • 2008 Victor Zaslavsky, Russian sociologist and writer
  • 2007 Tony Judt, a British historian
  • 2006 Julia Kristeva, French psychoanalyst, philosopher and writer
  • 2005 Vaira Vike- Freiberga, President of Latvia
  • 2004 Ernst- Wolfgang Böckenförde, German philosopher of law and constitutional judge retired
  • 2003 Michael Ignatieff, Canadian journalist, scientist, essayist and political thinker
  • 2002 Gianni Vattimo, Italian philosopher and politician
  • 2001 Ernst Vollrath, German political philosopher and Daniel Cohn- Bendit, German - French politician
  • 2000 Yelena Bonner, Russian rights activist
  • Massimo Cacciari 1999, Italian philosopher and politician
  • 1998 Antje Vollmer, German journalist and politician and Claude Lefort, French philosopher
  • 1997 frankness Duve, German journalist, publisher and politician, and Joachim Gauck, German civil
  • 1996 François Furet, French historian
  • 1995 Agnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher

Jury

Members of the International Jury:

  • Thick Howard (New York)
  • Otto Kallscheuer (Berlin / Cagliari)
  • Marie Luise Knott (Berlin)
  • Will Fried Maier ( Hamburg)
  • Karol Sauerland ( Warsaw)
  • Joshah Schmierer (Berlin)
  • Christina Thürmer tube (Berlin)
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