1966 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.
Events Heidegger's interview with Der Spiegel under the title Only a God Can Save Us (published in 1976)
Publications Lewis White Beck, Six Secular Philosophers (1966) 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) Richard Clyde Taylor, Action and Purpose (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)
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