title: 1941 in philosophy
text: # 1941 in philosophy
  
  1941 in philosophy
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (1941)
  * Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941)
  
  ### Philosophical literature
  
  * Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (1941)
  * Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure (1941)
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 22 - Jaan Kaplinski
  * February 16 - John Brockman
  * March 19 - Joxe Azurmendi
  * May 24 - George Lakoff
  * June 24 - Julia Kristeva
  * August 23 - Onora O'Neill
  * September 24 - Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (died 2017)
  * September 28 - David Lewis (died 2001)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 4 - Henri Bergson (born 1859)
  * April 16 - Hans Driesch (born 1867)
  * April 24 - Benjamin Lee Whorf (born 1897)
  * August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore (born 1861)
  