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