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".^[1]

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 (died 1985)
• April 13 - Jacques Lacan (died 1981)
• May 23 - Charles W. Morris (died 1979)
• June 16 - Henri Lefebvre (died 1991)
• November 3 - André Malraux (died 1976)
• December 5 - Werner Heisenberg (died 1976)

Deaths