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1966 philosophy
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 ChalmersCavanna Andrea Eugenio Nani Andrea David Chalmers: Property Dualism Consciousness 2014 3–7 10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312795959_David_Chalmers 13 November 2025
Deaths
July 12 - D. T. SuzukiKitagawa Joseph M. Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki (1870-1966) History of Religions February 1967 6 3 265–269 10.1086/462546 https://doi.org/10.1086/462546 13 November 2025 0018-2710 subscription (born 1870)
References
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