Fernand Deligny et la philosophie Un étrange objet

• Other Authors: Moreau, Pierre-François (Editor), Pouteyo, Michaël (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Lyon ENS Éditions 2021
• Series: La croisée des chemins
• Subjects: General studies; childhood; maladjustment; autism; writing; institution
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The school on the Rue de la Brèche-aux-Loups, Armentières Asylum, adolescents placed under the care of the courts in Lille, the La Grande Cordée network, autistic people in the living areas of the Cévennes: for more than sixty years, Deligny has built a body of work around children on the fringes. A work that inextricably links theory and practice, opportunities and attempts, writing and cinema. Not so much to help these children fall into line or adapt, but to build different conditions of existence with them, outside or through institutions. His path intersects with philosophy insistently: because he reads philosophers, discusses their theses, sometimes dialogues directly with them; because philosophers are increasingly finding themselves questioned by this itinerary, these writings, these detours. By a reflection on both the immutable and the circumstantial; by a perspective that turns out - in an unusual sense - to be deeply and differently political.