1957 in philosophy
Events
- Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Publications
- Karl Jaspers, The Great Philosophers (originally published in German as Die großen Philosophen, 1957)
- Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (1957)
- Bernard Lonergan, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957)
- B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior (1957)
- Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations (1957)
- André Leroi-Gourhan, Prehistoric Man (1957)
- Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (1957)
- Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (1957)
Philosophical fiction
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
- Max Frisch, Homo Faber (1957)
Births
Deaths
- October 13 - Erich Auerbach (born 1892)
gollark: Anarchocapitalism: what could possibly go wrong?
gollark: free markets goodmonopolies badregulatory capture badcentralized communism extremely bad
gollark: Nonsense. People could just substitute in blue/green pencils.
gollark: Perhaps! The general idea is that we can *test* communism without necessarily dooming everyone if it breaks.
gollark: Idea: implement communism, but only for green pencils, as a test run.
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