A Documentary Film "The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy"

A Documentary Film
The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy

Event Schedule

September 11, 2009

(Yale University Room 208, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street)

17:00-18:40　Film Screening
18:40-19:00　Break
19:00-20:00　Discussion moderated by Haun Saussy, Yasunari Takada and Y. Nishiyama

This is the first documentary film on the International College of Philosophy (Collège

international de Philosophie: CIPH), founded by, among others, Jacques Derrida and

François Châtelet in 1983 in Paris. The film consists of interviews with former presidents

Michel Deguy, François Noudelmann and Bruno Clément, current vice-president Boyan

Manchev, and with former and current program directors Catherine Malabou, Francisco

Naishtat and Gisèle Berkman. The aim of this film is to consider the possibilities of the

humanities in general and philosophy in particular under the current conditions of global

capitalism. One of the main themes it tries to develop is the "question of the institution",

namely the relationship between philosophy and institutions—a topic that was very central

for deconstruction as elaborated and practiced by Derrida.

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