Todai-Yale Initiative Special Event Film Screening – “The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy”

Todai-Yale Initiative Special Event Film Screening -- "The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy"

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 6510

The Right to Philosophy: Traces of the International College of Philosophy
Directed by Yuji Nishiyama - The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP)

EVENT SCHEDULE: 5:00-6:40 PM Film Screening 6:40-7:00 PM Break 7:00-8:00 PM Discussion moderated by Haun Saussy (Yale University), Yasunari Takada (University of Tokyo) and Yuji Nishiyama (The University of Tokyo & film director)

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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Organized by The Todai-Yale Initiative; Supported by The University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP)
Region: 
Japan