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Hermes Award:
A Book of the Year in
Phenomenological Hermeneutics
The 2001 Hermes Award
Jean Grondin
Hans-George Gadamer: Ein Biographie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1999)
Laudatio
Paul Ricœur
La Mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli (Paris: Le Seuil, 2000)
Laudatio
Martha C. Nussbaum
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Laudatio
The 2002 Hermes Award
Dennis Schmidt
On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (Indiana University Press, 2001)
Laudatio
Jean Grondin
The Philosophy of Hans-George Gadamer, trans. Kathryn Plant
(Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
Laudatio
Jean-Luc Marion
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness, trans. Jeffrey L. Kosky
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univerity Press, 2002)
Laudatio
The 2003 Hermes Award
Michael Forster
Herder: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Laudatio
John Milbank
Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (London: Routledge, 2003)
Laudatio
James Mensch
Ethics and Selfhood: Alterity and the Phenomenology of Obligation (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2203)
Laudatio
The 2004 Hermes Award
Richard Kearney
On Paul Ricœur: The Owl of Minerva (Hants: Ashgate, 2004)
Laudatio
Jean Greisch
Le Buisson ardent et les Lumières de la Raison: L'invention de la philosophie de la religion, 3 vols.
(Paris: Ed. du Cerf, 2002-2004)
Laudatio
Judith Butler
Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (New York: Verso, 2004)
Undoing Gender (New York: Routledge, 2004)
Laudatio
The 2005 Hermes Award
Kathy Hannah Eden
Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition:
Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005)
Laudatio
Juhani Pallasmaa
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (New York: John Wiley, 2005)
Laudatio
Maria Luísa Portocarrero Silva
Horizontes de Hermenêutica em Paul Ricoeur (Coimbra: Ariadne, 2005)
Laudatio
The 2006 Hermes Award
Nicholas Davey
Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006)
Laudatio
Günter Figal
Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006)
Laudatio
Alberto Perez-Gomez
Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
(Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006)
Laudatio
The 2007 Hermes Award
Daniel M. Gross
The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Laudatio
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007)
Laudatio
Jeff Malpas
Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007)
Laudatio
The 2008 Hermes Award
John T. Hamilton
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008)
Laudatio
Douglas Hedley
Living Forms of the Imagination (London: t&t clark, 2008)
Laudatio
John Sallis
Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Laudatio
The 2009 Hermes Award
James Mensch
Embodiments: From the Body to the Body Politic
(Evanston. Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2009)
Laudatio
Holger Zaborowski
Spielräume der Freiheit. Zur Hermeneutik des Menschseins (Freiburg i. Br.: Karl Alber, 2009)
Laudatio
Donatella Di Cesare
Gadamer: Ein philosophisches Porträt (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009)
Laudatio
The 2010 Hermes Award
Gianni Vattimo
The Responsibility of the Philosopher, ed. Franca D'Agostini
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
Laudatio
Andrzej Wierciński
Hermeneutics between Philosophy and Theology:
The Imperative to Think the Incommensurable (Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2010)
Laudatio
Ann O'Byrne
Natality and Finitude (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2010)
Laudatio
The 2011 Hermes Award
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Stimmungen lesen: Über eine verdeckte Wirklichkeit der Literatur (Müchen: Carl Hanser Verlage, 2011)
Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012)
Laudatio
Paul Fairfield
Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Postmodernism (London: Bloomsbury, 2011)
Laudatio
Juhani Pallasmaa
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
(Chichester: Wiley & Sons Publishers, 2011)
Laudatio
The 2012 Hermes Award
James Risser
The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics
(Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2012)
Laudatio
Tomáš Halik
Night of the Confessor: Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Doubleday/Image, 2012)
Laudatio
Jane Shaw
A Practical Christianity: Working on Transforming Our Lives (London: SPCK Publishing, 2012)
Laudatio
The 2013 Hermes Award
Babette Babich
The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology
(Surrey: Ashgate, 2013)
Laudatio
Gary B. Madison
On Suffering: Philosophical Reflections on What It Means To Be Human
(Hamilton: McMaster Innovation Press/Les Erables, 2013)
Laudatio
Barbara Weber
Zwischen Vernunft und Mitgefühl: Jürgen Habermas und Richard Rorty im Dialog über Wahrheit, politische Kultur und Menschenrechte and
Vernunft, Mitgefühl und Körperlichkeit:
Eine phänomenologische Rekonstruktion des politischen Raumes
(Freiburg i.Br.: Alber, 2013)
Laudatio
The 2014 Hermes Award
Nicholas Davey
Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
Laudatio
Donatella Di Cesare
Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz
(Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2013)
Laudatio
John D. Caputo
The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press, 2013)
Laudatio
The 2015 Hermes Award
John Sallis
Senses of Landscape (Evanston, Ind.: Northwestern University Press, 2015)
and Klee's Mirror (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY, 2015)
Laudatio
John D. Caputo
Hoping against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim
(Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2015)
Laudatio
William Pinar
Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity (London, Routledge, 2015)
Laudatio
The 2016 Hermes Award
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Collective Memory and the Historical Past (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Laudatio
Charles Taylor
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016)
Laudatio
Jean-Luc Marion
Givenness and Revelation, Gifford Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Laudatio
The 2017 Hermes Award
Frederick G. Lawrence
The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Good ed. Randall S. Rosenberg and Kevin M. Vander Schel (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017)
Laudatio
Yvanka B. Raynova
Sein, Sinn und Werte: Phänomenologische und hermeneutische Perspektiven des europäischen Denkens
(Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2017)
Laudatio
Maurizio Enrico Vittorio Ferraris
Postverità e altri enigma (Bologna: il Mulino, 2017)
Laudatio
The 2018 Hermes Award
John T. Hamilton
Philology of the Flesh (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Laudatio
Hans Ruin
Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018)
Laudatio
Thomas Fuchs
Ecology of the Brain: The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Laudatio
The 2019 Hermes Award
Martha C. Nussbaum
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Nobel but Flawed Ideal
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019)
Laudatio
Andrzej Wierciński
Existentia Hermeneutica: Understanding as the Mode of Being in the World and
Hermeneutics of Education: Exploring and Experiencing the Unpredictability of Education
(Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2019)
Laudatio
Saulius Geniusas
The Phenomenology of Pain (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2019)
Laudatio
The 2020 Hermes Award
Judith Butler
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
(New York: Verso, 2020)
Laudatio
David Leatherbarrow
Building Time: Architecture, Event, and Experience (London: Bloomsbury, 2020)
Laudatio
David W. Tracy
Fragments: The Existential Situation of Our Time: Selected Essays, vol. 1
and Filaments: Theological Profiles: Selected Essays, vol. 2
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Laudatio
The 2021 Hermes Award
Richard Kearney
Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021)
Laudatio
Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White
The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Laudatio
William Franke
Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection (London: Routledge, 2021)
The Divind Vision of Dant'e Paradiso: The Metaphysics of Representation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
and Dante's Vita Nuova and the New Testaments: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Laudatio
The 2022 Hermes Award
Nicole Piemonte
Death and Dying with Shawn Abreu (Boston: The MIT Press, 2021) and
Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice (Boston: The MIT Press, 2018)
Laudatio
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