1913 in philosophy

1913 in philosophy

Events

• Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Foundation stone of First Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was laid as a centre for the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner (September 20).

Publications

• Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (1913)
• Walther Rathenau, Zur Mechanik des Geistes (1913)
• Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)
• Max Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values (1913-16, originally published in German as Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik)
• Niels Bohr, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (1913)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, review of Peter Coffey's The Science of Logic (1913)

Births

• February 27 - Paul Ricœur (died 2005)
• March 3 - Roger Caillois (died 1978)
• September 25 - Norman O. Brown (died 2002)
• September 26 - Lewis White Beck (died 1997)
• November 7 - Albert Camus (died 1960)

Deaths

• February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure (born 1857)
• November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace (born 1823)

References