1940 In Philosophy
1940 in philosophy Events * July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans. * September 27, 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, ''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 (anthropologist), Michael Jackson (unspecified) Deaths * March 1 - A. H. Tammsaare (born 1878) * May 14 - Emma Goldman (born 1869) * August 21 - Leon Trotsky (born 1879) * Sept ...
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