1968 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Michael Polanyi, Life's Irreducible Structure
• Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
• Hans Albert, Treatise on Critical Reason
• Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
• James D. Watson, The Double Helix
• Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests

  [Philosophical literature]

• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Births

• July 11 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist, and cultural theorist. His most influential work was published in 2009: Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
• Julian Baggini

  Deaths

• June 4 - Alexandre Kojève
• December 10 - Karl Barth