1854 in philosophy

1854 in philosophy

Events

• Søren Kierkegaard launches his attack on Christendom represented by the Church of Denmark with a series of newspaper pamphlets and polemics today collected under the title The Moment.

Publications

• George Boole, The Laws of Thought (1854)
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Births

• January 1 - James George Frazer (died 1941)
• April 29 - Henri Poincaré (died 1912)

Deaths

• August 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (born 1775)

References