Gordon J. Laing Award
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The Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago
's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press
. The first award was given in 1963 and the 48th and most recent award was given on April 16, 2011 to Robert J. Richards, the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago.
The award is named in honor of the scholar who, serving as general editor of the Press from 1909 until 1940, firmly established the character and reputation of the Press as the premier academic publisher in the United States.
The award is presented each April at a ceremony at the Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago)
.
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel
and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies
Modern American Religion (in three volumes)
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought
The Hollow Hope
: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
Modernity on Endless Trial
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
Truth and Beauty
Herodotus: The History (translation)
The Founders' Constitution (in five volumes)
A History of Religious Ideas (in three volumes)
Time and Narrative, Volume 1
Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725
The Journey to the West (in four volumes)
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America
Reason and Morality
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
Culture and Practical Reason
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
Some Words of Jane Austen
The Intellectuals and the Powers
The Notebooks of Dostoevsky (in five volumes)
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture
Education and Social Change in Ghana
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950
The Rise of the West
: A History of the Human Community
A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
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. The first award was given in 1963 and the 48th and most recent award was given on April 16, 2011 to Robert J. Richards, the Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago.
The award is named in honor of the scholar who, serving as general editor of the Press from 1909 until 1940, firmly established the character and reputation of the Press as the premier academic publisher in the United States.
The award is presented each April at a ceremony at the Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago)
Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago)
The Quadrangle Club is the name of a membership club at the University of Chicago. It is located at 1155 East 57th Street in Chicago. It has a full-service dining room, a bar, several lounges, and sleeping quarters for members and/or their guests. It has 17 sleeping rooms, including 5 suites with...
.
Recipients of the Gordon J. Laing Award
- 2011 Robert J. Richards
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
The "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
- 2010 Martha Feldman
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
- 2009 Bernard HarcourtBernard HarcourtBernard E. Harcourt is a leading critical theorist with a specialization in the area of punishment and political economy. He is the chair of the Political Science Department, professor of political science and the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and the author most...
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090416/harcourt.shtml
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
- 2008 Philip GossettPhilip GossettPhilip Gossett is an American musicologist and historian, and recently officially retired from the post of Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago...
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/080501/gossett.shtml
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
- 2006 W.J.T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
- 2005 Bill Brown (critical theory)Bill Brown (critical theory)Bill Brown is a professor of English at the University of Chicago. He occupies the named chair previously held by Wayne Booth and has served as the chair of the University's English Language and Literature Department. His work focuses on American literature, with his second book, A Sense of Things,...
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
- 2004 Jonathan Hall
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
- 2003 Robert J. Richards
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
- 2002 Bruce LincolnBruce LincolnBruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.For many years his primary scholarly concern was the study of Indo-European religion, where his work came to criticize the ideological presuppositions of research on...
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
- 2001 François FuretFrançois Furet-Biography:Born in Paris on 27 March 1927, into a wealthy family, François Furet was a brilliant student who graduated from the Sorbonne with the highest honors and soon decided on a life of research, teaching and writing. He received his education at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the faculty...
The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
- 2000 James ChandlerJames ChandlerJames Chandler is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago....
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
- 1999 André LaCocque & Paul RicoeurPaul RicoeurPaul Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation...
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies
- 1998 Martin E. MartyMartin E. MartyMartin Emil Marty is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago...
Modern American Religion (in three volumes)
- 1997 Marshall SahlinsMarshall SahlinsMarshall David Sahlins is a prominent American anthropologist. He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie White, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 where his main intellectual influences included Karl Polanyi and...
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
- 1996 W.J.T. Mitchell
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
- 1995 Edward Laumann, Robert MichaelRobert MichaelRobert Michael or similar names can refer to:* Robert Michels , German sociologist* Robert Michel , Austrian writer* Robert H. Michel Robert Michael or similar names can refer to:* Robert Michels (1876–1936), German sociologist* Robert Michel (writer) (1876–1957), Austrian writer*...
, and Stuart Michaels
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
- 1994 David McNeill
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought
- 1993 Gerald N. RosenbergGerald N. RosenbergGerald N. Rosenberg is a University of Chicago political science and law professor, and the author of the 1991 controversial book The Hollow Hope which won the Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press in 1993. He holds a law degree from The University of Michigan and a Ph.D....
The Hollow Hope
The Hollow Hope
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?was written by Gerald N. Rosenberg and published in 1991. A highly controversial work, it produced labels ranging from "revolutionary" to "insulting." A Second Edition of the book was published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press .-Basic...
: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
- 1992 Jean ComaroffJean ComaroffJean Comaroff is Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She is an expert on the effects of colonialism on people in Southern Africa.She...
and John L. Comaroff
On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
- 1991 Leszek KolakowskiLeszek KolakowskiLeszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism, which is "considered by some to be one of the most important books on political theory of the...
Modernity on Endless Trial
- 1990 Richard G. KleinRichard G. KleinRichard G. Klein is a Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1966, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April 2003....
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
- 1989 S. Chandrasekhar
Truth and Beauty
- 1988 David GreneDavid GreneDavid Grene was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on Social Thought and is best known for his translations of ancient Greek literature.-Life:...
Herodotus: The History (translation)
- 1987 Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
The Founders' Constitution (in five volumes)
- 1986 Mircea EliadeMircea EliadeMircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
A History of Religious Ideas (in three volumes)
- 1985 Paul RicoeurPaul RicoeurPaul Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation...
Time and Narrative, Volume 1
- 1984 Richard Hellie
Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725
- 1983 Anthony C. YuAnthony C. YuAnthony C. Yu is a literature and religion scholar. He is currently the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago....
The Journey to the West (in four volumes)
- 1982 James M. Gustafson
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics
- 1981 Wayne C. BoothWayne C. BoothWayne Clayson Booth was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago...
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
- 1980 Morris JanowitzMorris JanowitzMorris Janowitz, was an American sociologist and professor who made major contributions to sociological theory, the study of prejudice, urban issues, and patriotism. He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel Huntington, to the establishment of...
The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America
- 1979 Alan GewirthAlan GewirthAlan Gewirth was an American philosopher, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality, , Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications , The Community of Rights , Self-Fulfillment , and numerous other writings in moral philosophy and political...
Reason and Morality
- 1978 Sewall WrightSewall WrightSewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
- 1977 Marshall SahlinsMarshall SahlinsMarshall David Sahlins is a prominent American anthropologist. He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the University of Michigan where he studied with Leslie White, and earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1954 where his main intellectual influences included Karl Polanyi and...
Culture and Practical Reason
- 1976 Keith Michael Baker
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
- 1975 Eric W. Cochrane
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
- 1974 Stuart M. Tave
Some Words of Jane Austen
- 1973 Edward ShilsEdward ShilsEdward Shils was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and reputedly an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy...
The Intellectuals and the Powers
- 1972 Edward Wasiolek
The Notebooks of Dostoevsky (in five volumes)
- 1971 Herrlee G. Creel
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
- 1970 Gerald D. Suttles
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
- 1969 Leonard B. MeyerLeonard B. MeyerLeonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis.-Career:...
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture
- 1968 Philip Foster
Education and Social Change in Ghana
- 1967 Donald F. Lach
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2
- 1966 A. Leo OppenheimA. Leo OppenheimA Leo Oppenheim , one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of his generation was editor-in-charge of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute 1955-1974 and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.Oppenheim was born in Vienna, where he received...
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
- 1965 Tang Tsou
America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950
- 1964 William H. McNeillWilliam H. McNeillWilliam Hardy McNeill is an American world historian and author and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1947.-Biography:...
The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a popular work by Canadian historian William H. McNeill...
: A History of the Human Community
- 1963 Bernard Weinberg
A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance
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