1941 in philosophy

1941 in philosophy

Publications

 * Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (1941)
 * Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941)

Philosophical literature

 * Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (1941)
 * Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure (1941)

Births

 * January 22 - Jaan Kaplinski
 * February 16 - John Brockman
 * March 19 - Joxe Azurmendi
 * May 24 - George Lakoff
 * June 24 - Julia Kristeva
 * August 23 - Onora O'Neill
 * September 24 - Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (died 2017)
 * September 28 - David Lewis (died 2001)

Deaths

 * January 4 - Henri Bergson (born 1859)
 * April 16 - Hans Driesch (born 1867)
 * April 24 - Benjamin Lee Whorf (born 1897)
 * August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore (born 1861)