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".[1]
The Sigmund Freud Prize was inaugurated in 1964.[2]
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)
References
↑Sartre, Jean-Paul. "Sartre on the Nobel Prize". The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1964/dec/17/sartre-on-the-nobel-prize/. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
↑"Sigmund-Freud-Preis". Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_freud.html. Retrieved 3 February 2013.