1941 in philosophy

1941 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (1941)
• Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941)

Philosophical literature

• Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (1941)
• Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure (1941)

Births

• January 22 - Jaan Kaplinski
• February 16 - John Brockman
• March 19 - Joxe Azurmendi
• May 24 - George Lakoff
• June 24 - Julia Kristeva
• August 23 - Onora O'Neill
• September 24 - Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (died 2017)
• September 28 - David Lewis (died 2001)

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson (born 1859)
• April 16 - Hans Driesch (born 1867)
• April 24 - Benjamin Lee Whorf (born 1897)
• August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore (born 1861)

References