Meister Eckhart Prize
# 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
