Deutscher Memorial Prize
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The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honour of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for a new book published in English "which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition." It has been ongoing since 1969.
As of November 2021, members of the Deutscher Jury include Gilbert Achcar, Alex Callinicos, Alejandro Colas, Ben Fine, Rob Knox, Esther Leslie, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Chris Wickham, and Lea Ypi.
Recipients include Jairus Banaji (2011, Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation), David Harvey (2010, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism), Rick Kuhn (2007, for a biography of Henryk Grossman), Christopher Wickham (2006, for Framing the Early Middle Ages), Francis Wheen (1999, for a biography of Karl Marx), Eric Hobsbawm (1995, for The Age of Extremes), Terry Eagleton (1989, The Ideology of the Aesthetic), Robert Brenner (1985, for The Brenner Debate), and G. A. Cohen (1978, for Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence).[1]
Recipients
| Year[2] | Winner | Book | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Martin Nicolaus | "The Unknown Marx" | New Left Review |
| 1970 | István Mészáros | Marx's Theory of Alienation | Merlin |
| 1971 | Not awarded | N/A | N/A |
| 1972 | Paul Walton and Andrew Gamble | From Alienation to Surplus Value | Macmillan |
| 1973 | Lucio Colletti | From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society | NLB |
| 1974 | Maxime Rodinson | Marxism and Islam | Allen Lane |
| 1975 | Marcel Liebman | Leninism Under Lenin | Cape |
| 1976 | Włodzimierz Brus | Socialist Ownership and Political Systems | RKP |
| 1977 | S. S. Prawer | Karl Marx and World Literature | Verso |
| 1978 | Rudolf Bahro | The Alternative in Eastern Europe | NLB |
| 1979 | G. A. Cohen | Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence | Oxford University Press |
| 1980 | Bob Rowthorn | Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation: Essays in Political Economy | Lawrence & Wishart |
| 1981 | Neil Harding | Lenin's Political Thought | Macmillan |
| 1982 | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests | Duckworth |
| 1983 | Barbara Taylor | Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century | Virago |
| 1984 | Margaret A. Rose | Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts | Cambridge University Press |
| 1985 | Robert Brenner | The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe | Cambridge University Press |
| 1986 | Ellen Meiksins Wood | The Retreat from Class: A New "True" Socialism | Verso |
| 1987 | Teodor Shanin | Russia, 1905–07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth | Macmillan |
| 1988 | Boris Kagarlitsky | Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present | Verso |
| 1989 | Terry Eagleton | The Ideology of Aesthetic | Blackwell |
| 1990 | Arno J. Mayer | Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The Final Solution in History | Verso |
| 1991 | Mike Davis | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles | Vintage Books |
| 1992 | Len Doyal and Ian Gough | A Theory of Human Need | Macmillan |
| 1993 | Harvey J. Kaye | The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History | Routledge |
| 1994 | Justin Rosenberg | The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations | Verso |
| 1995 | Eric Hobsbawm | The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 | M. Joseph |
| 1996 | Donald Sassoon | One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century | I.B.Tarius |
| 1997 | Robin Blackburn | The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800 | Verso |
| 1998 | Not awarded | N/A | N/A |
| 1999 | Francis Wheen | Karl Marx | Fourth Estate |
| 2000 | Peter Gowan | The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance | Verso |
| 2001 | James Holstun | Ehud's Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution | Verso |
| 2002 | Brian Kelly | Race, Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908–1921 | University of Illinois Press |
| 2003 | Neil Davidson | Discovering the Scottish Revolution | Pluto Press |
| Benno Teschke | The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations | Verso | |
| 2004 | Michael Lebowitz | Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class (2nd edition) | Palgrave Macmillan |
| 2005 | Kevin Murphy | Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory | Berghahn Books |
| 2006 | Chris Wickham | Framing the Early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800 | Oxford University Press |
| 2007 | Rick Kuhn | Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism | University of Illinois Press |
| 2008 | Kees van der Pijl | Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy | Pluto Press |
| 2009 | Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine | From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences | Routledge |
| 2010 | David Harvey | The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism | Profile Books |
| 2011 | Jairus Banaji | Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation | Brill |
| 2012 | David McNally | Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism | Brill |
| 2013 | Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch | The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire | Verso |
| 2014 | Roland Boer | In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V | Brill |
| 2015 | Tamás Krausz | Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography | Monthly Review |
| 2016 | Andreas Malm | Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming | Verso |
| 2017 | William Clare Roberts | Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Kohei Saito | Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy | Monthly Review |
| 2019 | Brett Christophers | The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain | Verso |
| 2020 | John Bellamy Foster | The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology | Monthly Review |
| 2021 | Ronald Grigor Suny [3] | Stalin: Passage to Revolution | Princeton University Press |
| 2022 | Gabriel Winant | The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America | Harvard University Press |
Shortlists for each year can be found on the Deutscher Prize website.
Reference
- ^ Recipients of the Prize
- ^ "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ "About the Deutscher Memorial Prize". deutscherprize.org. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.