The 2024 Leipzig E book Award for European Understanding has been awarded to thinker Omri Boehm (The New Faculty) for his ebook Radical Universalism.
The award, which incorporates 20,000 euros, can be introduced to Professor Boehm on the Leipzig Book Fair happening later this month.
The award jury writes:
The German-Israeli thinker Omri Boehm can be honoured with the 2024 Leipzig E book Award for European Understanding for his uncompromising defence of the core values of humanistic universalism and the duty to recognise the equality of all human beings with out relativising in any manner. In his newest ebook, entitled Radical Universalism: Past Identification (2022), Boehm resolutely opposes the ideological hardening of the current and takes Kant’s definition of enlightenment as man’s emergence from self-imposed immaturity as the idea for a crucial examination of Western liberalism and its tendency to suppose when it comes to identities that then change into absolute.
In response to Boehm, even in fashionable societies, final truths are crucial with the intention to shield human equality and dignity. He doesn’t draw back from selling metaphysical rationales for universalism, discovering them within the intersection of Kant’s philosophy and the legacy of the biblical prophets. In an authentic studying of the Hebrew Bible, he discovers a determine of disobedience in Abraham, who sacrificed the ram as an alternative of his son. By insisting on the concept of justice towards God, Abraham turns into the archetype of moral monotheism. Kant then interprets this concept within the language of recent philosophy. Omri Boehm’s groundwork on humanistic universalism is of serious political relevance. His books, together with A Future for Israel: Past the Two-State Answer (2020), concurrently defend and problem liberal democracies by demanding compulsory universalism.
You’ll be able to be taught extra in regards to the prize, and see a listing of earlier winners, here.
(by way of John Bengson)
