The Meister Eckhart Prize was a biennial award consisting of a prize of €50,000 given between 2001 and 2014 to "thinkers who produce high-quality work on the subject of identity" by the Identity Foundation. The prize was named after Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), a German theologian, philosopher and mystic.

Award recipients

  • 2001: Richard Rorty
  • 2003: Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • 2005: Ernst Tugendhat
  • 2007: Amartya Sen
  • 2009: Amitai Etzioni
  • 2012: Michel Serres
  • 2014: Seyla Benhabib

See also

  • Meister Eckhart
  • List of general awards in the humanities

References