The annual R.J. Hollingdale Essay Prize was inaugurated in 2017. It is awarded in fond memory of Reg, and the marvelous work he did translating Nietzsche’s works into English. A short online biography of Reg can be found here.
The prize, which is awarded to a postgraduate student or recently postdoctoral scholar for a paper presented at the FNS conference, consists of a modest 300 GBP and (– a special request from Reg’s daughter Frances –) a bottle of Bell’s whiskey.
The prize, which is awarded to a postgraduate student or recently postdoctoral scholar for a paper presented at the FNS conference, consists of a modest 300 GBP and (– a special request from Reg’s daughter Frances –) a bottle of Bell’s whiskey.
R. J. Hollingdale
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R. J. Hollingdale Essay Prize Winners
- 2018: James Mollison, Purdue University, "Re-thinking the Übermensch: Normative Pluralism, Ateleological Action, and Politics."
- 2017: Katie Brennan, Temple University, "The Wisdom of Silenus."
Annual R. J. Hollingdale Memorial Prize, 2017
FNS is very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2017 R.J. Hollingdale Prize, for a paper originally delivered at the FNS annual conference, is Katie Brennan, PhD candidate in philosophy at Temple University, for her paper "The Wisdom of Silenus."
The paper was judged by 3 members of the executive committee who commented: "Among the submissions considered by the Hollingdale Prize committee, this well-argued essay distinguished itself by its careful exegetical work and erudition, and by its skillful and selective engagement with a crowded scholarly literature on this important topic. In its sharp and sustained focus on a single, early text of Nietzsche's, this article makes a significant contribution to our understanding of that work, and to Nietzsche's longstanding preoccupation with the problem of nihilism."
FNS is very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2017 R.J. Hollingdale Prize, for a paper originally delivered at the FNS annual conference, is Katie Brennan, PhD candidate in philosophy at Temple University, for her paper "The Wisdom of Silenus."
The paper was judged by 3 members of the executive committee who commented: "Among the submissions considered by the Hollingdale Prize committee, this well-argued essay distinguished itself by its careful exegetical work and erudition, and by its skillful and selective engagement with a crowded scholarly literature on this important topic. In its sharp and sustained focus on a single, early text of Nietzsche's, this article makes a significant contribution to our understanding of that work, and to Nietzsche's longstanding preoccupation with the problem of nihilism."