1944 in philosophy
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1944 in philosophy
Events
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style".[1]
Publications
- Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man (1944)
- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944)
- Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? (1944)
- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944)
- Charles Stevenson, Ethics and Language (1944)
Philosophical literature
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (1944) and A New Refutation of Time (1944)
- Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (1944)
Births
- Ronald K. Hoeflin (February 23)
- Peter Bieri (June 23)
- Vernor Vinge (October 2)
Deaths
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (July 31)
- Benjamin Fondane (October 2 or 3)
- Romain Rolland (December 30)
References
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944 - Johannes V. Jensen". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
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