Holberg Prize

Columns: Year | Laureate ( s ) | Institution | Nationality | Citation
2004 | Julia Kristeva | Paris Diderot University | Bulgarian French | for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language , culture and literature which inspired research across the humanities and the social sciences throughout the world and have also had a significant impact on feminist theory | 2005 | Jürgen Habermas | University of Frankfurt | German | for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy | 2006 | Shmuel Eisenstadt | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israeli | for developing comparative knowledge of exceptional quality and originality concerning social change and modernization , and concerning relations between culture , belief systems and political institutions | 2007 | Ronald Dworkin | New York University University College London | American | for developing an original and highly influential legal theory grounding law in morality , characterized by a unique ability to tie together abstract philosophical ideas and arguments with concrete everyday concerns in law , morals , and politics | 2008 | Fredric Jameson | Duke University | American | for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the 'poetics of social forms ' | 2009 | Ian Hacking | University of Toronto | Canadian | for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts | 2010 | Natalie Zemon Davis | University of Toronto Princeton University | Canadian American | for connecting early modern Europe with new areas of comparative history , exploring cultural , geographical and religious interchange | 2011 | Jürgen Kocka | Free University of Berlin | German | for effecting a paradigm shift in German historiography by opening it up to related social sciences and establishing the importance of cross-national comparative approaches

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem | University of Frankfurt | New York University University College London | Paris Diderot University