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 Mod 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
