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
• April 13 - Jacques Lacan
• May 23 - Charles W. Morris
• June 16 - Henri Lefebvre
• November 3 - André Malraux
• December 5 - Werner Heisenberg