1958 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy
• Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
• Michael Polanyi,
• Clifton Fadiman, Fantasia Mathematica
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
• Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
• Raymond Williams, Culture and Society

  [Philosophical literature]

• Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles

  Births

• March 12 - Thomas Metzinger

  Deaths

• May 2 - Alfred Weber
• October 24 - G. E. Moore
• November 8 - Ralph Waldo Trine
• December 15 - Wolfgang Pauli