ABSTRACT
At the end of 1988 a committee was formed by the minister of education, chaired by Pierre Bourdieu and François Gros, with a brief to reflect on the curriculum and to plan a revision of it, bearing in mind the importance of the coherence and unity of knowledge. Other members included Pierre Baqué, Pierre Bergé, René Blanchet, Jacques Bouveresse, Jean-Claude Chevallier, Hubert Condamines, Didier Da Cunha Castelle, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Joutard, Edmond Malinvaud and François Mathey.
