1967 in philosophy

1967 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.

Events

Main article: 1967

Publications

• Max Horkheimer, Critique of Instrumental Reason (1967)
• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Massage (1967)
• Roland Barthes, Death of the Author (1967) ^[1]
• Donald Davidson, Truth and Meaning (1967)
• Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
• Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967), and Speech and Phenomena (1967)
• Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
• Jürgen Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967) ^[2]
• Raoul Vaneigem. Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations (AKA The Revolution of Everyday life) 1967

Philosophical literature

• Brian Aldiss, Report on Probability A (1967)

References

1. Logie, John (2013). "1967: The Birth of "The Death of the Author"". College English. 75 (5): 493–512. ISSN   0010-0994 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.
2. Gudmundsen, Sandra (1 March 1997). "Book Reviews : Jurgen Habermas, On the Logic of the Social Sciences, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen and Jerry A. Stark. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1988. Pp. xiv + 220. $12.50 (paper). Originally appeared in Philosophische Rundschau in February 1967. Published in book form in the volume Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, 1970, Suhrkamp". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 27 (1): 139–146. doi:10.1177/004839319702700111. ISSN   0048-3931 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.