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1940 in philosophy
Events
July -
Jean-Paul Sartre
is taken prisoner by the Germans.
[1]
September 26 or 27
–
Walter Benjamin
, literary critic and writer, died at the age of 48 when he committed suicide in an effort to avoid capture by the Gestapo.
[2]
Publications
G. H. Hardy
,
A Mathematician's Apology
(1940)
Nicolai Hartmann
,
Der Aufbau der realen Welt
(published in German in 1940; not yet translated into English)
Arnold Gehlen
,
Man: His Nature and Place in the World
(1940)
Births
May 7 -
Michael Allen Fox
June 21 -
Michael Ruse
July 26 -
Jean-Luc Nancy
August 20 -
Jacques Bouveresse
November 13 -
Saul Kripke
November 27 -
Bruce Lee
(died 1973)
T. M. Scanlon
(unspecified)
Tu Weiming
(unspecified)
Fatema Mernissi
(unspecified)
Michael Jackson
(unspecified)
Deaths
March 1 -
A. H. Tammsaare
(born 1878)
May 14 -
Emma Goldman
(born 1869)
August 21 -
Leon Trotsky
(born 1879)
September 26 - Walter Benjamin
see Events section above
[3]
References
^
Boulé, Jean-Pierre (2005).
Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities
. Berghahn Books. p.
114
.
ISBN
1-57181-742-5
.
^
"Aquinas and Descartes to Kant: The Origins of Early Modern Philosophy"
. Archived from
the original
on 2016-02-08
. Retrieved
2016-02-07
.
^
Osborne, Peter; Matthew, Charles.
"Walter Benjamin"
. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
. Retrieved
19 February
2013
.
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