Plessner Prize for Jay M. Bernstein | EUROtoday

The Wiesbaden Helmuth Plessner Prize, which is being awarded for the fifth time this 12 months, goes to the American thinker and demanding theorist Jay M. Bernstein. He has been top-of-the-line consultants on German-language philosophies within the USA for many years and has more and more targeted on Helmuth Plessner’s philosophical anthropology. Bernstein made a major contribution to creating Plessner’s work identified past the German-speaking world, particularly within the Anglo-Saxon world, and to highlighting its relevance to present debates in philosophy and sociology.

The assembly of the Prize Board of Trustees was attended equally on behalf of the Helmuth Plessner Society by Prof. Dr. Gesa Lindemann, Prof. Dr. Julien Kloeg, Dr. Steffen Kluck, Prof. Dr. Volker Schürmann, the members nominated by the town, Prof. Dr. Robert Gugutzer, Jürgen Kaube, Prof. Dr. Andreas Brensing, in addition to head of the cultural division Dr. Hendrik Schmehl took half.

Helmuth Plessner, born in Wiesbaden in 1892, was an vital supply of inspiration for European philosophy, biology and sociology and continues to be thought of probably the most vital representatives of “philosophical anthropology” at the moment. The Helmuth Plessner Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded each three years by the state capital Wiesbaden in cooperation with the Helmuth Plessner Society to a famend character who has made excellent contributions to facets of Plessner’s work.

Jay M. Bernstein is a philosophy professor on the New School for Social Research in New York City, which grew to become well-known for its reception of many emigrants who needed to flee Nazi Germany, and the place Helmuth Plessner was the primary holder of the Theodor Heuss Professorship in 1962/63. He taught for 25 years on the University of Essex in England and at Vanderbilt University, the place he was W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy. Bernstein acquired his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1975; his dissertation was on the connection between physics and biology in Kant’s crucial philosophy.

Jay M. Bernstein is presently ending a e book referred to as “Earth Justice.” It addresses the moral problem of local weather change and the significance of the Anthropocene for understanding human life on planet Earth. In it he argues that people should not solely be understood as a part of residing nature, as in Plessner’s philosophical anthropology, however that they have to now even be morally and politically included within the ecological neighborhood of Earth’s inhabitants: “The Anthropocene is an ethical event; climate change has caused serious damage to the ecological integrity of the living Earth, and we are now responsible for its future well-being, for its restoration and sustainability. We can only assume responsibility towards and for other people, including future generations, if we Apply “Earth Justice” principles, including an international ecocide convention that would have the same status as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

The award will probably be offered at a ceremony within the city corridor on Friday, September 4th. In addition to the award ceremony, a lecture by the award winner and a scientific convention on the award winner’s work are deliberate.