1958 in philosophy

1958 in philosophy

Publications

 * Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy (1958)
 * Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (1958)
 * Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958)
 * Clifton Fadiman (editor), Fantasia Mathematica (1958)
 * Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)
 * Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
 * Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)

Philosophical literature

 * Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles (1958)

Births

 * March 12 - Thomas Metzinger

Deaths

 * February 22 - Ralph Waldo Trine (born 1866)
 * May 2 - Alfred Weber (born 1868)
 * October 24 - G. E. Moore (born 1873)
 * December 15 - Wolfgang Pauli (born 1900)