1957 in philosophy

1957 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.

Events

Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Publications

Karl Jaspers, The Great Philosophers
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
Bernard Lonergan, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior
Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations
André Leroi-Gourhan, Prehistoric Man
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
Noam Chomsky, ''Syntactic Structures''

[Philosophical fiction]

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Max Frisch, ''Homo Faber''

Deaths

March 20 - Charles Kay Ogden, English linguistic psychologist and polymath
October 13 - Erich Auerbach, German-born scholar of comparative literature and philologist