1951 in philosophy

1951 in philosophy

Events[]

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Publications[]

• Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
• Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, popularizing social choice theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem
• Albert Camus, The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
• Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
• Karl Huber (executed 1943), Leibniz
• Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
• Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
• Willard Van Orman Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," The Philosophical Review

Births[]

• January 1 - Luc Ferry
• January 14 - Jonathan Westphal
• June 2 - François Jullien

Deaths[]

• January 5 - Andrei Platonov (born 1899)
• January 7 - René Guénon (born 1886)
• April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat (born 1903)
• April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 1889)

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