1958 in philosophy

1958 in philosophy

Events

Main article: 1958

Publications

• Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy (1958)
• Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (1958)
• Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (1958)
• Clifton Fadiman (editor), Fantasia Mathematica (1958)
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958)
• Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
• Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)

Philosophical literature

• Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles (1958)

Births

• March 12 - Thomas Metzinger

Deaths

• February 22 - Ralph Waldo Trine (born 1866)
• May 2 - Alfred Weber (born 1868)
• October 24 - G. E. Moore (born 1873)^[1][2]
• December 15 - Wolfgang Pauli (born 1900)