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FOR AN OUTSTANDING BOOK ON THE HUMAN CONDITION 1960-2001 |
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FOR AN OUTSTANDING BOOK ON THE HUMAN CONDITION 1960-2001 |
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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of $2,500 is offered annually by Phi Beta Kappa for scholarly studies of the intellectual and cultural condition of man. It was established in 1960. The purpose of the award is to recognize comprehensive studies that contribute significantly to historical, philosophical, or religious interpretations of the human condition. History, philosophy, and religion are conceived in sufficiently broad terms to permit the inclusion of appropriate work in related fields. Biographies in which a narrative emphasis predominates are not eligible.
| 2001 | Debora Silverman | Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art |
| 2000 | Peter Novick | The Holocaust in American Life |
| 1999 | H. C. Erik Midelfort | A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany |
| 1998 | Jill Lepore | The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity |
| 1997 | Steven B. Smith | Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity |
| 1996 | Eloise Quinones Keber | Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript |
| 1995 | Caroline Walker Bynum | The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336 |
| 1994 | David Levering Lewis | W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
| 1993 | Theda Skocpol | Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States |
| 1992 | Gordon S. Wood | The Radicalism of the American Revolution |
| 1991 | Carl M. Degler | In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought |
| 1990 | William L. Vance | America's Rome, Volumes I and II |
| 1989 | Peter Brown | The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity |
| 1988 | David Montgomery | The Fall of the House of Labor |
| 1987 | Alfred W. Crosby | Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 |
| 1986 | Benjamin I. Schwartz | The World of Thought in Ancient China |
| 1985 | Joel Williamson | The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation |
| 1984 | David G. Roskies | Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture |
| 1983 | Daniel Joseph Singal | The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 |
| 1982 | Robert Nozick | Philosophical Explanations |
| 1981 | George M. Frederickson | White Supremacy: A comparative Study in American and South African History |
| 1980 | Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel | Utopian Thought in the Western World |
| 1979 | Elizabeth L. Eisenstein | The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Volumes I and II |
| 1978 | Bruce Kuklick | The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 |
| 1977 | Eugen Weber | Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 |
| 1976 | Paul Fussell | The Great War and Modern Memory |
| 1975 | Marshall G. S. Hodgson | The Venture of Islam |
| 1974 | Frederic C. Lane | Venice: A Maritime Republic |
| 1973 | Barrington Moore, Jr. | Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them |
| 1972 | John Rawls | A Theory of Justice |
| 1971 | Charles A. Barker | American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1600-1850 |
| 1970 | Rollo May | Love and Will |
| 1969 | Peter Gay | Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider |
| 1968 | Winthrop D. Jordan | White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 |
| 1967 | Robert Coles | Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear |
| 1966 | John Herman Randall, Jr. | The Career of Philosophy: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin |
| 1965 | Howard Mumford Jones | O Strange New World: American Culture - The Formative Years |
| 1964 | Thomas F. Gossett | Race: The History of an Idea in America |
| 1963 | Richard Hofstadter | Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
| 1962 | Herbert J. Muller | Freedom in the Ancient World |
| 1961 | W. T. Stace | Mysticism and Philosophy |
| 1960 | Albert William Levi | Philosophy and the Modern World |
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