1957 in philosophy

Events

• Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  Publications

• Karl Jaspers, The Great Philosophers
• Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
• Bernard Lonergan,
• B. F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior
• Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of Nations
• André Leroi-Gourhan, Prehistoric Man
• Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
• Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures

  [Philosophical fiction]

• Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• Max Frisch, Homo Faber

  Births

Deaths

• October 13 - Erich Auerbach