1940 in philosophy

## Contents

* 1 Events
* 2 Publications
* 3 Births
* 4 Deaths
* 5 References

## Events

* July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.[1]
* 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.[2]

## 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 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare (born 1878)
* May 14 - Emma Goldman (born 1869)
* August 21 - Leon Trotsky (born 1879)
* September 26 - Walter Benjamin see Events section above[3]

## References

1. ↑ Boulé, Jean-Pierre (2005). Sartre, Self-formation, and Masculinities. Berghahn Books. p. 114. ISBN 1-57181-742-5. https://archive.org/details/sartreselfformat0000boul/page/114.
2. ↑ http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm
3. ↑ Osborne, Peter; Matthew, Charles. "Walter Benjamin". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/benjamin/. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

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