1941 in philosophy

Publications

• Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
• Gershom Scholem, ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism''

[Philosophical literature]

• Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
• Maurice Blanchot, ''Thomas the Obscure''

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
• September 28 - David Lewis

Deaths

• January 4 - Henri Bergson
• April 16 - Hans Driesch
• April 24 - Benjamin Lee Whorf
• August 7 - Rabindranath Tagore