Disciplinary characteristics of University of Paris VIII

Based on the interdisciplinary nature, the school has formulated a new curriculum outline, accepted fields previously excluded from the academic scope, such as geopolitics, urban planning, psychoanalysis, especially film, music, drama, photography and plastic arts in the art field, and took the lead in implementing innovations in the humanities and social sciences.

University of Paris VIII is a university with international influence. Many scholars and researchers who are internationally renowned and unique in France have taught at the University of Paris VIII. For example, Hélène Cixous is a famous French feminist writer, poet, philosopher, playwright, poet, literary critic and rhetorician. The leftist thinker Francois Chadli (Fran? ois Ch？ Telet) is a thinker in French history and has made important contributions to French political philosophy and history. Jean-Fran? ois Lyota (Jean-Fran? Ois Lyotard is a French philosopher and post-modernist theorist. His book Postmodernism, published in 1979, holds that the characteristic of modern science is to reject or suppress the legal form based on narration, and emphasizes that the rhythmic form of narration can fix and accommodate the irregularity of natural time. Michel foucault is a French philosopher and "historian of ideological system". He has a great influence on literary criticism and its theory, philosophy (especially in French-speaking countries), critical theory, history, history of science (especially medical history), critical pedagogy and sociology of knowledge. He is regarded as post-modernism and post-structuralism, but some people think that his early works, especially Words and Things, are still structuralism. In 2007, The Times Guide to Higher Education listed him as the most cited humanist. Jacques Ragan (Jacques Marie? Millay Lacan is a famous French psychoanalyst. Ragan started a 30-year confrontation with self-psychology, so he was not only expelled from the French Psychoanalytic Society, but also set up an organization different from the International Psychoanalytic Association, which became one of the largest psychoanalytic systems in the world. Madeleine Reberg Ou is a famous French historian. French sociologist Robert Castel mainly studies topics excluded from society. Shibula Kauste is one of the most famous geographers and geopoliticists in France, and is known as "the father of French geopolitics". La Kauste started teaching at the University of Paris VIII on 1968, and founded the magazine Hérodote, which is the most authoritative and only magazine devoted to geopolitical research in France and has a high academic influence in the world. At the same time, in 1989, he established the first center for geopolitical research and analysis in France, which was later the French Academy? Ais de Géopolitique), also known as the French Geopolitical Institute (L? Colfland? Ais de Géopolitique), a large number of students from France and all over the world apply for their master's degrees every year. The Institute holds the only doctorate in geopolitics in France.