1966 in philosophy

Last updated November 13, 2025

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 ^[1]

Deaths

July 12 - D. T. Suzuki ^[2] (born 1870)

References

↑ Cavanna, Andrea Eugenio; Nani, Andrea (2014). "David Chalmers: Property Dualism". Consciousness: 3–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_1 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.
↑ Kitagawa, Joseph M. (February 1967). "Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki (1870-1966)". History of Religions. 6 (3): 265–269. doi:10.1086/462546. ISSN 0018-2710 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.

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[1] Cavanna, Andrea Eugenio; Nani, Andrea (2014). "David Chalmers: Property Dualism". Consciousness: 3–7. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44088-9_1 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.

[2] Kitagawa, Joseph M. (February 1967). "Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki (1870-1966)". History of Religions. 6 (3): 265–269. doi:10.1086/462546. ISSN 0018-2710 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.

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