1940 in philosophy explained

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, (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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Boulé, Jean-Pierre. Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities. 2005. Berghahn Books. 1-57181-742-5. 114.
2. Web site: Aquinas and Descartes to Kant: The Origins of Early Modern Philosophy. 2016-02-07. 2016-02-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160208012229/http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm. dead.
3. Web site: Walter Benjamin. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). 19 February 2013. Osborne, Peter. Matthew, Charles.