Deutscher_Memorial_Prize

Deutscher Memorial Prize

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]

Winning authors may contribute to the Deutscher Memorial Lecture series the following year; the lecture, or a text based upon it, is published in a variety of outlets, including Historical Materialism, the New Left Review,[2] International Socialism,[3] and the International Socialist Review.[4]

Recipients

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Shortlists for each year can be found on the Deutscher Prize website.


References

  1. "About the Deutscher Memorial Prize". deutscherprize.org. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. "Can we write the history of the Russian Revolution? • International Socialism". International Socialism. 28 September 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  3. "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  4. Cohen, G.A. (1981). "Freedom, Justice and Capitalism". New Left Review. I/126.
  5. de Ste. Croix, G.E.M. (1984). "Class in Marx's Conception of History, Ancient and Modern". New Left Review. I/146.
  6. Rosenberg, Justin (1996). "Isaac Deutscher and the Lost History of International Relations'". New Left Review. I/215.
  7. Davidson, Neil (2005). "How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?". Historical Materialism. 13 (3): 3–33. doi:10.1163/1569206054927563. ISSN 1465-4466.
  8. Lebowitz, Michael (2006). "The Politics of Assumption, the Assumption of Politics". Historical Materialism. 14 (2): 29–47. doi:10.1163/156920606777829212. ISSN 1465-4466.
  9. "The Deutscher Memorial Lectures". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  10. Fine, Ben; Milonakis, Dimitris (2011). "'Useless but True': Economic Crisis and the Peculiarities of Economic Science*". Historical Materialism. 19 (2): 3–31. doi:10.1163/156920611X573770. ISSN 1465-4466.
  11. Panitch, Leo; Gindin, Sam (2015). "Marxist Theory and Strategy: Getting Somewhere Better". Historical Materialism. 23 (2): 3–22. doi:10.1163/1569206X-12341407. ISSN 1465-4466.
  12. Roberts, William Clare (2019). "Marx's Social Republic: Political not Metaphysical". Historical Materialism. 27 (2): 41–58. doi:10.1163/1569206X-00001870. ISSN 1465-4466.
  13. Christophers, Brett (2021). "Class, Assets and Work in Rentier Capitalism". Historical Materialism. 29 (2): 3–28. doi:10.1163/1569206X-29021234. ISSN 1465-4466.

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