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1951 in philosophy
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1951 in philosophy
was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.
Contents
Events
Publications
Births
Deaths
References
Events
Main article:
1951
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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