Event overview
This is the first documentary film on the International College of Philosophy (Collège international de Philosophie), founded by, among others, Jacques Derrida and François Châtelet in 1983 in Paris. 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.
Yuji Nishiyama is an Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Program Director, Collège international de Philosophie (2010-2016)
Yuji Nishiyama received his PhD from Hitotsubashi University’s School of Languages and Society in 2006. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a Project Lecturer in the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy (UTCP), one of the most active philosophical center in Japan. He has been teaching in the section of French Studies at the Tokyo Metropolitan University since 2010. He also develops his activities as Program Director in the International College of Philosophy (Le Collège international de Philosophie) in Paris. He works on modern French philosophy, focusing on Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot. In the past few years he is working on a research
project titled “Philosophy and University”. He is the author of Literature as Contestation: Solitude, Friendship and Community in Maurice Blanchot (Tokyo: Ochanomizu-syobô 2007) and The Right to Philosophy (with DVD, Keiso-syobo, 2011), and the editor of Philosophie et Éducation II: Le droit à la philosophie (UTCP 2009), and Philosophy and the University (Miraisya, 2009). He is also the Japanese translator of books and articles by Jacques Derrida (The University without Condition, Save the Name), Maurice Blanchot (Political Writings), Jean-Luc Nancy (Hegel), Emmanuel Levinas (Ethics
and Infinity) and Catherine Malabou (The Futur of Hegel), etc.
Dates & times
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31 Oct 2011 | 5:00pm - 9:00pm |
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