1966 in philosophy

1966 in philosophy

Events

 * Heidegger's interview with Der Spiegel under the title Only a God Can Save Us (published in 1976)

Publications

 * Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension (1966)
 * Kenneth Burke, Language As Symbolic Action (1966)
 * Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics (1966)
 * Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966)
 * Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus (1966)
 * Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (1966)
 * Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality (1966)
 * Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (1966)
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics (1966)

Births

 * February 23 - Paul Bakker, controversial Dutch professor of medieval and renaissance philosophy
 * April 20 - David Chalmers

Deaths

 * July 12 - D. T. Suzuki (born 1870)