Hegel Prize


The Hegel Prize was founded by the city of Stuttgart in 1967 and has been awarded to a philosopher or humanities scholar every three years since 1970 in collaboration with the International Hegel Association. The prize was first awarded in 1970 on the occasion of Georg Wilhelm [Friedrich Hegel]'s 200th birthday. The award is endowed with 12,000 euros. A jury decides on the award.

Recipients

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YearRecipientCountryDiscipline
1970Bruno SnellGermanyPhilology
1973Jürgen HabermasGermanyPhilosophy
1976Ernst GombrichAustria / UKHistory
1979Hans-Georg GadamerGermanyPhilosophy
1982Roman JakobsonRussiaLinguistics / Literary criticism
1985Paul RicœurFrancePhilosophy
1988Niklas LuhmannGermanySociology
1991Donald DavidsonUSAPhilosophy
1994Jacques Le GoffFranceHistory
1997Charles TaylorCanadaPhilosophy
2000Norberto BobbioItalyLaw / Political science
2003Dieter HenrichGermanyPhilosophy
2006Richard SennettUSASociology
2009Michael TomaselloUSAPsychology
2012Gertrude Lübbe-WolffGermanyLaw
2015Michael TheunissenGermanyPhilosophy
2018Michael StolleisGermanyLaw / History
2021Béatrice LonguenesseFrancePhilosophy
2024Orlando PattersonUSASociology