411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1951 in philosophy
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
1951 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.
== Events ==
== Publications ==
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, popularizing social choice theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem
Albert Camus, The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Karl Huber (executed 1943), Leibniz
Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
Willard Van Orman Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," The Philosophical Review
== Births ==
January 1 - Luc Ferry
January 14 - Jonathan Westphal
June 2 - François Jullien
== Deaths ==
January 5 - Andrei Platonov (born 1899)
January 7 - René Guénon (born 1886)
April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat (born 1903)
April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 1889)
== References ==