1848 in philosophy

1848 in philosophy

Events

 * Year of Revolutions of 1848.
 * February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.

Publications

 * Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme)
 * Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View of My Work as an Author (written)
 * Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
 * John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Births

 * February 19 - Constance Jones, English philosopher and logician (d. 1922)
 * March 16 - Carveth Read, English philosopher and logician (d. 1931)
 * May 11 - Wilhelm Windelband, German philosopher (d. 1915)
 * June 14 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher (d. 1923)
 * November 8 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician and philosopher (d. 1925)

Deaths

 * January 1 - Friedrich Karl Forberg, German atheist philosopher and classicist (b. 1770)
 * June 7 - Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1811)
 * July 9 - Jaime Balmes, Spanish Catalan Catholic priest and philosopher (b. 1810)
 * December 18 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian Catholic priest, mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
 * Alexander Ivanovich Galich, Russian philosopher (b. 1783)