title: 1901 in philosophy
text: # 1901 in philosophy
  
  1901 in philosophy
  
  ## Events
  
  * Sully Prudhomme was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect".
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Émile Boutmy, Essai d'une psychologie politique du peuple anglais au XIXe siècle
  * Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion
  * H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 3 - Eric Voegelin (died 1985)
  * April 13 - Jacques Lacan (died 1981)
  * May 23 - Charles W. Morris (died 1979)
  * June 16 - Henri Lefebvre (died 1991)
  * November 3 - André Malraux (died 1976)
  * December 5 - Werner Heisenberg (died 1976)
  