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The European Essay Award reveals to readers the best essays in all disciplines. It draws attention to authors whose work bear witness to and offer a fertile critique of current societies, their practices and ideologies. Awarded since 1975, it is the first literary prize devoted solely to the genre of the essay.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is awarded the European Essay Prize 2024
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Dipesh Chakrabarty is awarded the 46th European Essay Prize on the occasion of the French translation of his essay The climate of history in a planetary age (University of Chicago Presse 2021). [Après le changement climatique, penser l’histoire, Paris, Gallimard, 2023, translated from English by Aude de Saint Loup and Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat].
—Information on the laureate
—The videos of the award ceremony on August 28, 2024
—European Essay Prize Round Table
—Media, Press Release
”Can Homo sapiens learn to be Homo prudens, whatever the political battles that divide us?
I should clarify that a project that seeks to understand human loss of reverence for the world they found themselves in is not a project of renouncing the moral courage that humans have always needed in their struggles against various form of domination and exploitation, including those that have been made possible by modern human’s profligate use of fossil fuels. Indeed, such moral courage can easily coexist with the spirit of reverence.”
I should clarify that a project that seeks to understand human loss of reverence for the world they found themselves in is not a project of renouncing the moral courage that humans have always needed in their struggles against various form of domination and exploitation, including those that have been made possible by modern human’s profligate use of fossil fuels. Indeed, such moral courage can easily coexist with the spirit of reverence.”
Dipesh Chakrabarty