16. 1968 as Watershed – Global Revolt and Philosophical Reorientation

Kai Froeb 2026

Part V: 1968 - The Multiple Crisis and Its Philosophical Processing

  1. Framing: The Simultaneity of Upheaval
  2. The Threefold Crisis – Algeria, Vietnam, Prague
  3. The Student Movement and the Rediscovery of Theory
  4. Mexico City – The Tlatelolco Massacre (October 2, 1968)
  5. Belated Reckoning with the Past – Germany 1968
  6. The United States – From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Power
  7. The Cultural Revolution in China – Fascination and Misunderstanding
  8. Space Travel, Drugs, Expansion of Consciousness – The Technical-Psychedelic Boundary Crossing
  9. The Ecological Turn – Silent Spring and The Limits to Growth
  10. The Explosion of Knowledge – Esotericism, Psychotherapy, the Third World
  11. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal (1974) – The End of the Last European Colonial Empire
  12. The Return to Marx – and thereby to Hegel
  13. The Limits of the Movement – Failure and Transformation
  14. Systematic Assessment – 1968 as Philosophical Caesura

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