Philosophy: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)