Gordon J. Laing Prize
The Gordon J. Laing Prize is awarded annually by the University of Chicago Press to the faculty author, editor or translator of a book published in the previous three years that brings the Press the greatest distinction.
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Andreas Glaeser, 2013
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, The Opposition, and The End of East German Socialism -
Adrian Johns, 2012
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates -
Robert Richards, 2011
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle Over Evolutionary Thought -
Martha Feldman, 2010
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy -
Bernard E. Harcourt, 2009
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age -
Philip Gossett, 2008
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera -
W. J. T. Mitchell, 2006
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images -
Bill Brown, 2005
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature -
Jonathan Hall, 2004
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture -
Robert J. Richards, 2003
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe -
Bruce Lincoln, 2002
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship -
François Furet, 2001
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century -
James Chandler, 2000
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism -
André LaCocque & Paul Ricoeur, 1999
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies -
Martin E. Marty, 1998
Modern American Religion: In Three Volumes -
Marshall Sahlins, 1997
How “Natives” Think: About Captain Cook, For Example -
W. J. T. Mitchell, 1996
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
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Edward Laumann, Robert Michael, and Stuart Michaels, 1995
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States -
David McNeill, 1994
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought -
Gerald N. Rosenberg, 1993
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? -
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, 1992
On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa -
Leszek Kolakowski, 1991
Modernity on Endless Trial -
Richard G. Klein, 1990
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins -
S. Chandrasekhar, 1989
Truth and Beauty -
David Grene, 1988
Herodotus: The History -
Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, 1987
The Founders’ Constitution. In Five Volumes -
Mircea Eliade, 1986
A History of Religious Ideas. In Three Volumes -
Paul Ricoeur, 1985
Time and Narrative. Volume 1 -
Richard Hellie, 1984
Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725 -
Anthony C. Yu, 1983
The Journey to the West. In Four Volumes -
James M. Gustafson, 1982
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics -
Wayne C. Booth, 1981
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism -
Morris Janowitz, 1980
The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America -
Alan Gewirth, 1979
Reason and Morality -
Sewall Wright, 1978
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
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Marshall Sahlins, 1977
Culture and Practical Reason -
Keith Michael Baker, 1976
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics -
Eric W. Cochrane, 1975
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes -
Stuart M. Tave, 1974
Some Words of Jane Austen -
Edward Shils, 1973
The Intellectuals and the Powers -
Edward Wasiolek, 1972
The Notebooks of Dostoevsky. In Five Volumes -
Herrlee G. Creel, 1971
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire -
Gerald D. Suttles, 1970
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City -
Leonard B. Meyer, 1969
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture -
Philip Foster, 1968
Education and Social Change in Ghana -
Donald F. Lach, 1967
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2 -
A. Leo Oppenheim, 1966
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization -
Tang Tsou, 1965
America’s Failure in China 1941-1950 -
William H. McNeill, 1964
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community -
Bernard Weinberg, 1963
A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance