1949 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History ; Note: Jaspers coined the term Axial Age.
• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
• Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
• Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Jean Fourastié, Le Grand Espoir du XXe siècle
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  [Philosophical fiction]

• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

  Births

• January 1 - Ljubodrag Simonović, Serbian philosopher, author and former basketball player
• January 2 - Iris Marion Young
• March 21 - Slavoj Žižek
• April 13 - Christopher Hitchens
• June 30 - Alain Finkielkraut
• July 18 - Axel Honneth

  Deaths

• November 23 - Gustav Radbruch