title: 1940 in philosophy
text: # 1940 in philosophy
  
  1940 in philosophy
  
  ## Events
  
  * July - Jean-Paul Sartre is taken prisoner by the Germans.
  * September 26 or 27 – Walter Benjamin, literary critic and writer, died at the age of 48 when he committed suicide in an effort to avoid capture by the Gestapo.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)
  * Nicolai Hartmann, Der Aufbau der realen Welt (published in German in 1940; not yet translated into English)
  * Arnold Gehlen, Man: His Nature and Place in the World (1940)
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 7 - Michael Allen Fox
  * June 21 - Michael Ruse
  * July 26 - Jean-Luc Nancy
  * August 20 - Jacques Bouveresse
  * November 13 - Saul Kripke
  * November 27 - Bruce Lee (died 1973)
  * T. M. Scanlon (unspecified)
  * Tu Weiming (unspecified)
  * Fatema Mernissi (unspecified)
  * Michael Jackson (unspecified)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March 1 - A. H. Tammsaare (born 1878)
  * May 14 - Emma Goldman (born 1869)
  * August 21 - Leon Trotsky (born 1879)
  * September 26 - Walter Benjamin see Events section above
  