1990 in philosophy

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Publications

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community (published in Italian as La comunità che viene in 1990; English translation: 1993)
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990)
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (1990)
Jonathan Lear, Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis (1990)

Deaths

January 26 - Lewis Mumford (born 1895)
August 1 - Norbert Elias (born 1897)
August 4 - Norman Malcolm (born 1911)
August 18 - B. F. Skinner (born 1904)
October 22 - Louis Althusser (born 1918)^[1]
November 24 - Keiji Nishitani (born 1900)

References

↑ Pace, Eric (24 October 1990). "Louis Althusser, 72, a Marxist Who Harshly Criticized Moscow". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

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[1] Pace, Eric (24 October 1990). "Louis Althusser, 72, a Marxist Who Harshly Criticized Moscow". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

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1990 in philosophy

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