1966 in philosophy
1966 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.
Events
- Heidegger's interview with Der Spiegel under the title Only a God Can Save Us
Publications
- Lewis White Beck, Six Secular Philosophers
- Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension
- Kenneth Burke, Language As Symbolic Action
- Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics
- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
- Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus
- Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger
- Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality
- Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
- Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics
- Richard Clyde Taylor, ''Action and Purpose''
Births
- February 23 - Paul Bakker, controversial Dutch professor of medieval and renaissance philosophy
- April 20 - David Chalmers