1951 in philosophy

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1951 in philosophy

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
• Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
• Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy

Births

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

Deaths

• Andrei Platonov (January 5)
• René Guénon (January 7)
• Sadegh Hedayat (April 4)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 29)

References