The Collège international de philosophie (Ciph), located in

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' 5th arrondissement, is a tertiary education institute placed under the trusteeship of the French government department of research and chartered under the French 1901 Law on associations. It was co-founded in 1983 by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet,

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and Dominique Lecourt in an attempt to re-think the teaching of philosophy in France, and to liberate it from any institutional authority (most of all from the

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). Its financing is mainly through public funds.“The CIPh is living mainly on grants by the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Education” Its chairs or "directors of program" are competitively elected for 6 years (non renewable), following an international open call for proposals (every third year). Proposals are free and directors are elected after a collegial, peer-assessment of their value for philosophy. The College recognizes that philosophy is better served by being located at "intersections" such as Philosophy/Science, or Philosophy/Law. Proposals must respond to this exigency of "intersection" as wished by Jacques Derrida. The College has few registered students, who may receive the ''Diplôme du Collège international de philosophie'', which is not a university degree but may be, in some cases, validated by French or foreign universities. Otherwise, attendance to seminars is open and free.

Raison d'être

According to Derrida, he was inspired by the Cerisy study center to found this new institution, in the midst of governmental threats on the teaching of philosophy in the last class of high school. Thus was created this College, "from a non-governmental origin, with an international span, an institution which is not destined to oppose itself, but to balance, question, open, occupy margins ; where we would privilege infrequent approaches or approaches yet unlegitimized by the university, new objects, new themes, new fields; where we would treat more of intersections than of academic disciplines".

Presidents of the Assembly of Directors

* Jacques Derrida *

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* François Jullien * Jean-Claude Milner * François Noudelmann

Current Directors

Past Directors

* Giorgio Agamben * Alain Badiou * Sidi Mohamed Barkat * Geoffrey Bennington * Barbara Cassin * François Châtelet * Joseph Cohen * José Gil * Olivier LeCour Grandmaison * Robert Harvey * Natacha Michel * Pascal Michon *

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* Catherine Perret *

Philippe-Joseph Salazar Philippe-Joseph Salazar (), a French rhetorician and philosopher, was born on 10 February 1955 in Casablanca, then part of French Morocco. Salazar attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand a prestigious secondary-school in Paris (founded 1563) before ...

References

External links

Official website
retrieved 30 October 2019.
"Collection Collège International de Philosophie" books
published by

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