Spitz Prize
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The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is an award for a book in liberal and/or democratic theory.
It is awarded annually by a panel based in the Department of Political Science of Columbia University
, for the best book in the field published two years earlier. To be eligible, the book must be primarily theoretical rather than historical, and not a textbook or edited work.
Winners of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize:
It is awarded annually by a panel based in the Department of Political Science of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, for the best book in the field published two years earlier. To be eligible, the book must be primarily theoretical rather than historical, and not a textbook or edited work.
Winners of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize:
- 1988 – Joseph RazJoseph RazJoseph Raz is a legal, moral and political philosopher. He is one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism. He has spent most of his career as professor of philosophy of law and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and simultaneously as professor of law at Columbia University Law...
for The Morality of Freedom - 1989 – Richard E. Flathman Richard E. FlathmanRichard E. Flathman is the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for having pioneered, with Brian Barry, , , and Abraham Kaplan, the application of analytic philosophy to political science. He is a leading advocate of liberalism...
for The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom - 1990 – no award given
- 1991 – Robert A. Dahl Robert A. DahlRobert Alan Dahl , is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1940. He is past president of the American Political Science Association...
for Democracy and Its Critics - 1992 – Charles W. Anderson Charles W. AndersonCharles W. Anderson was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
for Pragmatic Liberalism - 1993 – William A. Galston for Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State
- 1994 – George KatebGeorge KatebGeorge Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Kateb, along with John Rawls and Isaiah Berlin, is credited with making significant contributions to liberal political theory...
for The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic - 1995 – John RawlsJohn RawlsJohn Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....
for Political Liberalism - 1996 – William E. Scheuerman for Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law
- 1997 – Mark KingwellMark KingwellMark Gerald Kingwell, M.Litt, M.Phil, PhD, D.F.A. is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College...
for A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism - 1998 – John DryzekJohn DryzekJohn Dryzek is Professor of Social Theory and Political Theory in Australian National University's Political Science Program in the Research School of Social Sciences.He was born in Maids Moreton, England...
for Democracy in Capitalist Times: Ideals, Limits, and Struggles - 1999 – Richard Dagger for Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism
- 2000 – no award given
- 2001 – Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. for Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals
- 2002 – no award given
- 2003 – Ira KatznelsonIra KatznelsonIra Katznelson is a leading American political scientist and historian, noted for his influential research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States....
for Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust - 2004 – Sheldon S. Wolin for Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
External links
- Spitz Prize home page.
- Spitz Prize at lovethebook