1945 in philosophy

1945 in philosophy

Events

 * January 1? - Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Legion of Honour.

Publications

 * Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
 * Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Phénoménologie de la perception)
 * Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Philosophical fiction

 * Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
 * George Orwell, Animal Farm
 * Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (L'âge de raison)

Births

 * September 9 - Robert Alexy
 * Philip Pettit

Deaths

 * February 1 - Johan Huizinga (born 1872)
 * April 13 - Ernst Cassirer (born 1874)
 * June 7 - Kitaro Nishida (born 1870)
 * July 20 - Paul Valéry (born 1871)
 * December 22 - Otto Neurath (born 1882)