ABSTRACT

With these words, Jacques Derrida presented the first arguments in favor of a brand new institution. It was in 1982. If he wished to continue the dialogue with philosophy, its history, its archives, on new bases, it was because the questions of metaphysics, ethics, or aesthetics were more than ever unavoidable if one wanted to move forward in the world by and while inventing a possible path. It must be noted that, a few years before it was fashionable, and even before philosophy regained some popularity, Derrida was one of the main founding members of the “College.” At the time, it was because he felt a profound need for a new space. Too often trapped within the walls of an obsolete university, philosophy must be allowed to do a better job of thinking itself, exposing itself, teaching itself, and transmitting itself.