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, Man: His Nature and Place in the World (1940)
Births May 7 - Michael Allen Fox June 21 - Michael Ruse July 26 - Jean-Luc Nancy August 20 - Jacques Bouveresse November 13 - Saul Kripke November 27 - Bruce Lee (died 1973) T. M. Scanlon (unspecified) Tu Weiming (unspecified) Fatema Mernissi (unspecified) Michael Jackson (unspecified)
Deaths March 1 - A. H. Tammsaare (born 1878) May 14 - Emma Goldman (born 1869) August 21 - Leon Trotsky (born 1879) September 26 - Walter Benjamin see Events section above
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