Institutional “Mluridisciplinarity” After Mai 68
November, 2007
This paper was first given at the “Undisciplined Knowledge? Franco-American Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities” Conference, a French Studies event held on March 2-3, 2007 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. A French version of this text appeared in the issue of Labyrinthe entitled La fin des disciplines? (Laurent Dubreuil ed.; Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose; 2007).
This paper is based upon research on the archives of the cabinet staff of Edgar Faure, Minister of Education after Mai 68. As inter- and pluridisciplinarity get more frequently used in these administrative records, and seem to be key concepts of the reform of higher education under way, their implementation proves to be a different story, ranging from total failures to successful, but isolated, experimentations. What if, then, inter- and pluridisciplinarity did not depend on the institutional framework, but on community?
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