1951 in philosophy
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1951 in philosophy
Publications
- Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, popularizing social choice theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem
- Albert Camus, The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
- Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
- Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
Births
- Luc Ferry (January 1)
- François Jullien (June 2)
Deaths
- Andrei Platonov (January 5)
- René Guénon (January 7)
- Sadegh Hedayat (April 4)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 29)