1957 in philosophy

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)

Deaths

 * March 20 - Charles Kay Ogden, English linguistic psychologist and polymath (born 1889)
 * October 13 - Erich Auerbach, German-born scholar of comparative literature and philologist (born 1892)