title: Meister Eckhart Prize
text: # Meister Eckhart Prize
  
  The Meister Eckhart Prize is a biennial award consisting of a prize of €50,000 given to "thinkers who produce high-quality work on the subject of identity" by the Identity Foundation. The prize is named after Meister Eckhart (1260–1328), a German theologian, philosopher and mystic.
  
  ## Award recipients
  
  * 2001: Richard Rorty
  * 2003: Claude Lévi-Strauss
  * 2005: Ernst Tugendhat
  * 2007: Amartya Sen
  * 2009: Amitai Etzioni
  * 2012: Michel Serres
  * 2014: Seyla Benhabib
  