Deutscher Memorial Prize
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 2020, 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[2]
Year | Winner | Book | Publisher |
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2020 | John Bellamy Foster | The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology | Monthly Review |
2019 | Brett Christophers | The New Enclosure The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain | Verso |
2018 | Kohei Saito | Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy | Monthly Review |
2017 | William Clare Roberts | Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital | Princeton University Press |
2016 | Andreas Malm | Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming | Verso |
2015 | Tamás Krausz | Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography | Monthly Review |
2014 | Roland Boer | In The Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V | Brill |
2013 | Sam Gindin and Leo Panitc | The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire | Verso |
2012 | David McNally | Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism | Brill |
2011 | Jairus Banaji | Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation | Brill |
2010 | David Harvey | The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism | Profile Books |
2009 | Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine | From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics | Routledge |
2008 | Kees van der Pijl | Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy | Pluto Press |
2007 | Rick Kuhn | Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism | University of Illinois Press |
2006 | Chris Wickham | Framing the Early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 | Oxford University Press |
2005 | Kevin Murphy | Revolution and Counterrevolution, Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory | Berghahn Books |
2004 | Michael A. Lebowitz | Beyond Capital. Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (2nd Edition) | Palgrave Macmillan |
2003 | Joint Award:
Neil Davidson and Benno Teschke |
Discovering the Scottish Revolution
and The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations |
Pluto Press
and Verso |
2002 | Brian Kelly | Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 | University of Illinois Press |
2001 | James Holstun | Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution | Verso |
2000 | Peter Gowan | The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance | Verso |
1999 | Francis Wheen | Karl Marx | Fourth Estate |
1998 | Not Awarded | n/a | n/a |
1997 | Robin Blackburn | The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 | Verso |
1996 | Donald Sassoon | One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century | I.B.Tarius |
1995 | Eric Hobsbawm | The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 | M. Joseph |
1994 | Justin Rosenberg | The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations | Verso |
1993 | Harvey J. Kaye | The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History | Routledge |
1992 | Len Doyal and Ian Gough | A Theory of Human Need | Macmillan |
1991 | Mike Davis | City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles | Vintage Books |
1990 | Arno J. Mayer | Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The Final Solution in History | Verso |
1989 | Terry Eagleton | The Ideology of Aesthetic | Blackwell |
1988 | Boris Kagarlitsky | Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present | Verso |
1987 | Teodor Shanin | Russia, 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth | Macmillan |
1986 | Ellen Meiksins Wood | The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism | Verso |
1985 | Robert Brenner | The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe | Cambridge University Press |
1984 | Margaret A. Rose | Marx’s Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts | Cambridge University Press |
1983 | Barbara Taylor | Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century | Virago |
1982 | G. E. M. de Ste. Croix | The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests | Duckworth |
1981 | Neil Harding | Lenin’s Political Thought | Macmillan |
1980 | Bob Rowthorn | Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation: Essays in Political Economy | Lawrence & Wishart |
1979 | G. A. Cohen | Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence | Oxford University Press |
1978 | Brian Kelly | The Alternative in Eastern Europe | NLB |
1977 | S. S. Prawer | Karl Marx and World Literature | Verso |
1976 | Wlodzimierz Brus | Socialist Ownership and Political Systems | RKP |
1975 | Marcel Liebman | Leninism under Lenin | Cape |
1974 | Marxism and Islam | Marxism and Islam | Allen Lane |
1973 | Lucio Colleti | From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society | NLB |
1972 | Paul Walton and Andrew Gamble | From Alienation to Surplus Value | Macmillan |
1971 | Not Awarded | n/a | n/a |
1970 | Istvan Meszaros | Marx’s Theory of Alienation | Merlin |
1969 | Martin Nicolaus | The Unknown Marx | New Left Review |
Shortlists for each year can be found on the Deutscher Prize Website.
Reference
- Recipients of the Prize
- "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2020-11-14.