THE LEGACY OF THE VINCENNES UNIVERSITY
THE LEGACY OF THE VINCENNES UNIVERSITY

Summary/Abstract: Our paper looks at three emerging concepts – third culture, knowledge community, and third space – tracing them back to the change in philosophy and critical theory effected by a group of academics (Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze,Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Serres)teaching at various intervals at the Vincennes University in Paris. The present developments are measured in comparison to C. P. Snow’s disciplinary paradigm deployed in his celebrated conference (7 May 1959, Cambridge) on “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, whose argument hinges on the Kantian binary of disciplinary spheres (humanities versus sciences). The dualistic simulation model has yielded in time to hybrid, in-between notions of transgression across disciplines and communicational (interdisciplinary) methodologies.

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