1848 in philosophy

1848 in philosophy

Events[edit]

• Year of Revolutions of 1848.
• February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.

Publications[edit]

• Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism (Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme)
• Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View of My Work as an Author (written)
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

Births[edit]

• February 19 - Constance Jones, English philosopher and logician (d. 1922)
• March 16 - Carveth Read, English philosopher and logician (d. 1931)
• May 11 - Wilhelm Windelband, German philosopher (d. 1915)
• June 14 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher (d. 1923)
• November 8 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician and philosopher (d. 1925)

Deaths[edit]

• January 1 - Friedrich Karl Forberg, German atheist philosopher and classicist (b. 1770)
• June 7 - Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (b. 1811)
• July 9 - Jaime Balmes, Spanish Catalan Catholic priest and philosopher (b. 1810)
• December 18 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian Catholic priest, mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)
• Alexander Ivanovich Galich, Russian philosopher (b. 1783)

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