ABSTRACT
The possibility of philosophy dwindling and then vanishing altogether from secondary education in France diminished as a threat. Announcing the death of philosophy, whether as a metaphysical problem, or in terms of its having been overtaken and supplanted — whether by empiricism, technocracy, morality or religion — remains a philosophical move. The problematic of philosophy's institutional location and disciplinary role is carried over from the consideration of schools to that of universities. The College International de Philosophie (CIPh) has been presented by the American deconstructionist critic Vincent B. Leitch as a kind of 'institutionalisation of poststructuralism'. Jacques Derrida's contributions to the report on the creation of the CIPh were written in 1982. In his 1989 presentation of the CIPh to a non-French audience, Derrida comments that interdisciplinarity is well-established, and is itself 'a classical concept and has been a classical concept for some time', since it derives from the model of the University of Berlin.
