Program Results

Introduction to the event

In the years following 1968, the Experimental University Center of Vincennes was the heart of an intense pedagogical experimentation. Gilles Deleuze was one of the most brilliant and creative promoters of this experimentation in the department of philosophy of Vincennes, making of the practice of oral philosophy some sort of a risky and paradoxical art, far beyond the common techniques and receipts of academic teaching. Most of the courses he taught during his years in Vincennes have been filmed and recorded, so that this documentation enables us to think about the special brand of post-academic philosophy he invented then - a new philosophical style made of a strange combination of anarchic impulses and a strong charismatic presence.