{"id":14,"date":"2008-04-07T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/?p=14"},"modified":"2017-05-23T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:34:06","slug":"philosophy-course-listings-university-of-vincennes-196970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/2008\/04\/07\/philosophy-course-listings-university-of-vincennes-196970\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy course listings, University of Vincennes 1969\/70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a curious book, Christopher Driver&#8217;s <em>The Exploding University<\/em> &#8211; a journalist&#8217;s reflective late-60s tour of universities around the globe &#8211; the courses offered at the University of Vincennes as of 1969\/70 were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>La 3\u00e8me \u00e9tape du marxisme-leninisme: le mao\u00efsme (Judith Miller)<\/li>\n<li>Probl\u00e8mes concernant l&#8217;id\u00e9ologie I (Judith Miller)<\/li>\n<li>Probl\u00e8mes concernant l&#8217;id\u00e9ologie II (Jacques Ranci\u00e8re)<\/li>\n<li>Th\u00e9orie de la 2\u00e8me \u00e9tape du marxisme l\u00e9ninisme: le concept du stalinisme (Jacques Ranci\u00e8re)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction aux marxistes du XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle: (1) Lenine, Trotsky, et le courant bolch\u00e9vique (Henri Weber)<\/li>\n<li>(2) Les \u00e9crits de Mao Ts\u00e9 Toung (Henri Weber)<\/li>\n<li>La dialectique marxiste (Alain Badiou)<\/li>\n<li>La science dans la lutte des classes (Alain Badiou)<\/li>\n<li>Probl\u00e8mes de la pratique r\u00e9volutionnaire (Jeannette Colombel)<\/li>\n<li>L&#8217;id\u00e9ologie p\u00e9dagogique (Ren\u00e9 Scherrer)<\/li>\n<li>Logique (Houria Sinaceur)<\/li>\n<li>Epist\u00e9mologie des sciences exactes et des math\u00e9matiques (Houria Sinaceur)<\/li>\n<li>Epist\u00e9mologies des sciences de la vie (Michel Foucault)<\/li>\n<li>Pb. \u00e9pistemologiques des sciences historiques (Fran\u00e7ois Chatelet)<\/li>\n<li>Critique de la pens\u00e9e sp\u00e9culative grecque (Fran\u00e7ois Chatelet)<\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche (histoire et gen\u00e9alogie) (Michel Foucault)<\/li>\n<li>Les id\u00e9ologies morales d&#8217;aujourd&#8217;hui (Fran\u00e7oise Regnault)<\/li>\n<li>A propos de la litt\u00e9rature et del&#8217;art (Fran\u00e7ois Regnault)<\/li>\n<li>Le signe chez Nietzsche (Fran\u00e7ois Rey)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->I emphasize that there are two courses on Maoism, a course not on Stalinism but on the <em>concept<\/em> of Stalinism, two courses on Nietzsche, a class on &#8220;today&#8217;s moral ideologies,&#8221; and a class on the problems of revolutionary practice. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous, one of the initial administrators of the university (which was an educational experiment that began in January 1969), is quoted as having said the following about her selection of personnel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I knew many of them, especially psychoanalysts and philosophers \u2014 people like Lacan and Derrida. Manyn of them were teaching outside the universities. <strong>They were excluded because they were leftists<\/strong>, though the political criteria were never made explicit. They were delighted to be offered an audience. Michel Foucault, for instance, I stopped on his way to America&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s being said here in passing is that the French university system did in fact exclude teachers based on their political stance. In fact, the Ministry of Education refused to grant degrees to graduates of this philosophy department, citing differences with its &#8220;pedagogical philosophy.&#8221; No American university, surely, has ever offered a list of philosophy courses quite like this one. The best comparison might be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.cornell.edu\/sochum\/sct\/\">School of Criticism and Theory<\/a> at Cornell, or perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/humwww.ucsc.edu\/HistCon\/degree\/courses.html\">History of Consciousness<\/a> at Santa Cruz, where courses include &#8220;French Hegel,&#8221; &#8220;Critical Theory in the Marxist Tradition,&#8221; and the like. A real history of the institutionalization of leftist politics and theory &#8211; not nearly so hegemonic as the right wing makes it out to be, but not without its well-built enclaves &#8211; remains to be written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a curious book, Christopher Driver&#8217;s The Exploding University &#8211; a journalist&#8217;s reflective late-60s tour of universities around the globe &#8211; the courses offered at the University of Vincennes as of 1969\/70 were as follows: La 3\u00e8me \u00e9tape du marxisme-leninisme: le mao\u00efsme (Judith Miller) Probl\u00e8mes concernant l&#8217;id\u00e9ologie I (Judith Miller) Probl\u00e8mes concernant l&#8217;id\u00e9ologie II [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[488,753],"tags":[611],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decasia.org\/academic_culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}