1848 in philosophy

Events

• Year of Revolutions of 1848.
• February 21 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London.

Publications

• Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism
• Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View of My Work as an Author
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• John Stuart Mill, ''Principles of Political Economy''

Births

• February 19 - Constance Jones, English philosopher and logician
• March 16 - Carveth Read, English philosopher and logician
• May 11 - Wilhelm Windelband, German philosopher
• June 14 - Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher
• November 8 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician and philosopher

Deaths

• January 1 - Friedrich Karl Forberg, German atheist philosopher and classicist
• June 7 - Vissarion Belinsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher
• July 9 - Jaime Balmes, Spanish Catalan Catholic priest and philosopher
• December 18 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian Catholic priest, mathematician and philosopher
• Alexander Ivanovich Galich, Russian philosopher