1940 in philosophy
# 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, 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
