1940 in philosophy

none 1940 philosophy 1940 in philosophy Events July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.Boulé Jean-Pierre Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities 2005 Berghahn Books 1-57181-742-5 114 https://archive.org/details/sartreselfformat0000boul/page/114 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.http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm Aquinas and Descartes to Kant: The Origins of Early Modern Philosophy 2016-02-07 2016-02-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20160208012229/http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm dead 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, Man: 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 aboveWalter Benjamin http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/benjamin/ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) 19 February 2013 Osborne, Peter Matthew, Charles References Philosophy Category:20th century in philosophy Category:Philosophy by year