1957 in philosophy

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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

• October 13 - Erich Auerbach (born 1892)