1964 in philosophy
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1964 in philosophy
Events
- 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".{{cite web|last=Sartre|first=Jean-Paul|title=Sartre on the Nobel Prize|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1964/dec/17/sartre-on-the-nobel-prize/|publisher=The New York Review of Books|accessdate=3 February 2013}}
- The Sigmund Freud Prize was inaugurated in 1964.{{cite web|title=Sigmund-Freud-Preis|url=http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_freud.html|publisher=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung|accessdate=3 February 2013|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514044609/http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_freud.html|url-status=dead}}
Publications
- Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law (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)
Births
- December 8 - Richard David Precht
- December 30 - Christof Rapp
Deaths
- March 18 - Norbert Wiener (born 1894)
- April 14 - Rachel Carson (born 1907)
- April 23 - Karl Polanyi (born 1886)