1940 in philosophy

1940 in philosophy

Events

 * July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.
 * 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.

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,  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