1940 in philosophy
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- July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.[1]
- 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.[2]
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)