1940 in philosophy

1940 in philosophy

Events

• July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.
• 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, ' (1940)