1901 in philosophy

1901 in philosophy

Events

 * Sully Prudhomme was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect".

Publications

 * Émile Boutmy, Essai d'une psychologie politique du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle
 * Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion
 * H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought

Births

 * January 3 - Eric Voegelin (died 1985)
 * April 13 - Jacques Lacan (died 1981)
 * May 23 - Charles W. Morris (died 1979)
 * June 16 - Henri Lefebvre (died 1991)
 * November 3 - André Malraux (died 1976)
 * December 5 - Werner Heisenberg (died 1976)