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1955 in philosophy

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1955 in philosophy

Contents

Publications

  • Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
  • J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously)
  • Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
  • Volume II: The General Theory of Modal Spheres
  • Volume III: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
  • Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
  • Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture
  • Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty
  • Births

  • June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
  • December 28 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights activist
  • Deaths

  • February 17 - L. P. Jacks, English philosopher (b. 1860)
  • April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit theologian, philosopher and paleontologist (b. 1881)
  • April 18 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (b. 1879)
  • September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
  • October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
  • References

    1955 in philosophy Wikipedia