Laudatio voor Susan Neiman door Frank Vandenbroucke
Susan Neiman ontvangt de prijs uit handen van burgemeester Jozias Van Aartsen, onder goedkeurend oog van juryvoorzitter Frank Vandenbroucke.
Voor de uitreiking van de Internationale Spinozalens aan Amerikaanse filosofe Susan Neiman sprak juryvoorzitter Frank Vandenbroucke vorige maandag deze laudatio uit.
“What is the meaning of good and evil in the 21st century, and what is the role of ideals in politics? By selecting Immanuel Kant as the ‘dead philosopher’ and Susan Neiman as the ‘living philosopher’ for the International Spinoza Award 2013-1014, the jury did not hesitate to put these questions – on good and evil and on political ideals – center stage in our deliberations and in the public debate we call for. Obviously, if there is one thing Susan Neiman’s whole oeuvre convincingly shows, starting from her 1994 book on The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant, it is that Kant’s philosophy is far from ‘dead’, on the contrary.
Tinneke Beeckman 