# Collège international de philosophie

The Collège international de philosophie (French pronunciation:; Ciph), located in Paris' 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, Jean-Pierre Faye 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 university). Its financing is mainly through public funds. 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
* Jean-François Lyotard
* François Jullien
* Jean-Claude Milner
* François Noudelmann

## Current Directors

| Elena Anastasaki Manola Antonioli Guillaume Artous-Bouvet Quentin Badaire Sina Badiei Charles Bobant Livio Boni Vanessa Brito Jean-Jacques Cadet Rosaria Caldarone Raffaele Carbone Gaetano Chiurazzi Hugues Choplin Alexandre Chèvremont Laura Cremonesi Rémy David Alessandro De Lima Francisco | Joana Desplat-Roger Héctor G. Castano Marc Goldschmit Lorena Grigoletto Emmanuel Guez Joëlle Hansel Étienne Helmer Céline Hervet Éric Hoppenot Romaric Jannel Abbed Kanoor Igor Krtolica Alexis Lavis Anna Longo Cécile Malaspina Cédric Molino-Machetto Mara Montanaro | Laura Moscarelli Michel Olivier Alain Patrick Olivier Chiara Palermo Xavier Pavie Éric Puisais Stéphanie Péraud-Puigségur Julien Rabachou Stéphanie Ronchewski Degorre Michele Saporiti Diane Scott Vicky Skoumbi Angelo Vannini Pauline Vermeren Raphael Zagury-Orly Barbara Zauli |

## 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
* Antonio Negri
* Catherine Perret
* Philippe-Joseph Salazar