1957 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.
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 March 20 - Charles Kay Ogden, English linguistic psychologist and polymath (born 1889) October 13 - Erich Auerbach, German-born scholar of comparative literature and philologist (born 1892)
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