Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he declined it, stating that a writer must "refuse to let himself be transformed into an institution, even if this occurs under the most honorable circumstances".
The Sigmund Freud Prize was inaugurated in 1964.
Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao (1964)
Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (1964)
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)
Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope (1964)
Richard David Precht (December 8)
Christof Rapp (December 30)
Norbert Wiener (March 18)
Rachel Carson (April 14)
Karl Polanyi (April 23)
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