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1960 In Philosophy
1960 in philosophy Events * British Society of Aesthetics founded. * Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Publications * Elias Canetti, ''Crowds and Power'' * Hans-Georg Gadamer, '' Truth and Method'' Philosophical fiction * Raja Rao, ''The Serpent and the Rope'' Births * February 27 - Simon Critchley, English philosopher * June 25 - Vittorio Hösle, Italian-born German philosopher Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding " earin philosophy" article: * January 4 - Albert Camus, French author and philosopher (born 1913) (automobile accident) * February 8 - J. L. Austin, English philosopher of language (born 1911) (lung cancer) References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosophical Fiction
Philosophical fiction refers to the class of works of fiction which devote a significant portion of their content to the sort of questions normally addressed in philosophy. These might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development of knowledge, whether there exists free will, or any other topic of philosophical interest. Philosophical fiction works would include the so-called ''novel of ideas'', including some science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and the ''Bildungsroman''. Philosophical fiction : ''This is only a list of some major philosophical fiction. For all philosophical novels, see :Philosophical novels. There is no universally accepted definition of philosophical fiction, but a sampling of notable works can help to outline its history. Some philosophers writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * January 9– 11 – Aswan Dam construction begins in Egypt. * January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). * January 19 – A revised version of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The new treaty is opposed by the massive Anpo protests in Japan. * January 21 ** Coalbrook mining disaster: A coal mine collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435 miners. ** Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica killing 37, the worst air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 In Philosophy
1911 in philosophy Events Births * March 26 - J. L. Austin, English philosopher of language (d. 1960) * June 4 or 12 - Milovan Đilas, Montenegran Yugoslav Marxist theoretician, politician, Partisan, dissident and author (d. 1995) * June 11 - Norman Malcolm, American philosopher (d. 1990) Deaths References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ... 20th-century philosophy Philosophy by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In Philosophy
1913 in philosophy Events * Foundation stone of First Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was laid as a centre for the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner (September 20). * Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Publications * Edmund Husserl, ''Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology'' (1913) * Walther Rathenau, ''Zur Mechanik des Geistes'' (1913) * Rosa Luxemburg, ''The Accumulation of Capital'' (1913) * Max Scheler, ''Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values'' (1913-16, originally published in German as ''Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik'') * Niels Bohr, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (1913) * Ludwig Wittgenstein, review of Peter Coffey's ''The Science of Logic'' (1913) Births * February 27 - Paul Ricœur (died 2005) * March 3 - Roger Caillois (died 1978) * September 25 - Norman O. Brown (died 2002) * November 7 - Albert Camus (died 1960) Deaths * February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include '' The Stranger'', '' The Plague'', ''The Myth of Sisyphus'', '' The Fall'', and '' The Rebel''. Camus was born in French Algeria to '' Pieds Noirs'' parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at '' Combat'', an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Hösle
Vittorio Hösle (; born 25 June 1960) is an Italian-born German philosopher. He has authored works including ''Hegels System'' (1987), ''Moral und Politik'' (1997, trans. as ''Morals and Politics'', 2004), and ''Der philosophische Dialog'' (2006) (''The Philosophical Dialogue''). He has been in the United States since 1999, at the University of Notre Dame where he is the Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters (with concurrent appointments in the Departments of German, Philosophy, and Political Science). Since 2008, he has also served as the founding Director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Academic career In 1982 Hösle completed his doctorate in philosophy (with a thesis titled ''Wahrheit und Geschichte. Studien zur Struktur der Philosophiegeschichte unter paradigmatischer Analyse der Entwicklung von Parmenides bis Platon'') at age of 21, and earned his habilitation in philosophy in 1986 (with a thesis titled ''Subjektivität und Intersubjektivität: Unters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Critchley
Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960) is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Challenging the ancient tradition that philosophy begins in wonder, Critchley argues that philosophy begins in disappointment. Two particular forms of disappointment inform Critchley's work: religious and political disappointment. While religious disappointment arises from a lack of faith and generates the problem of what is the meaning of life in the face of nihilism, political disappointment comes from the violent world we live in and raises the question of justice in a violently unjust world. In addition, to these two regions of research, Critchley's recent works have engaged in more experimental forms of writing on Shakespeare, David Bowie, suicide, Greek tragedy and association football. Life and education Simon Critchley was born on 27 February 1960, in Letchworth Garden City, England, to a working-class f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. '' The Serpent and the Rope'' (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole. Biography Early life Raja Rao was born on 8 November 1908 in Hassan, in the princely state of Mysore (now in Karnataka in South India) into a Kannada-speaking Brahmin family and was the eldest of 9 siblings, with seven sisters and a brother named Yogeshwara Ananda. His father, H.V. Krishnaswamy, taught Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Society Of Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) is a philosophical organization founded by Herbert Read in 1960 to promote the study of aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed t .... The BSA sponsors national and regional conferences, and publishes the '' British Journal of Aesthetics'', '' Debates in Aesthetics'' (formerly ''The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics''), as well as a newsletter. The organization also funds projects that promote the goals of the BSA. The Society holds an annual conference at St Anne's College in Oxford. References External links British Society of Aesthetics website Aesthetics organizations Philosophical societies in the United Kingdom 1960 establishments in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1960 {{philo-org- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 ''magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics. Life Family and early life Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, the son of Johannes Gadamer (1867–1928), a pharmaceutical chemistry professor who later also served as the rector of the University of Marburg. He was raised a Protestant Christian. Gadamer resisted his father's urging to take up the natural sciences and became more and more interested in the humanities. His mother, Emma Karoline Johanna Geiese (1869–1904) died of diabetes while Hans-Georg was four years old, and he later noted that this may have had an effect on his decision to not pursue scientific studies. Jean Grondin describes Gadamer as finding in his mother "a poetic and almost religious counterpart to the iron fist of his father". Gadamer did not serve during World War I for re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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