Philippe-Joseph Salazar (), a French
rhetorician and philosopher, was born on 10 February 1955 in
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
, then part of
French Morocco
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. Salazar attended the
Lycée Louis-le-Grand a prestigious secondary-school in Paris (founded 1563) before studying philosophy, politics and literature at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, S ...
. Since 1999 Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in
Rhetoric
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in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Cape Town
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, South Africa. Salazar's lifelong achievements made him the recipient of Africa's premier research award in 2008, the
Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. In 2015 he received a prestigious French literary prize for political non-fiction, , for his book on the rhetoric of
jihadism: ''Paroles armées'' (2015), translated in four languages (in English,
Words are Weapons. Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror', Yale UP, 2017).
From voice to rhetoric
Salazar's advisor at
Ecole Normale Supérieure was
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser ...
. While at ENS he joined the
Conférence Olivaint, an exclusive club dedicated to training future leaders in the Catholic and liberal tradition of public oratory, and completed a voluntary internship at the cultural affairs section of Paris City Hall when President
Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as May ...
was mayor.
Salazar would later pursue graduate studies in metaphysics (on metaphor and ontology) with
Emmanuel Levinas
Emmanuel Levinas (; ; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to ...
, in
semiotics
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(on voice) with
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western pop ...
and in
political theory
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with
Maurice Duverger
Maurice Duverger (5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente.
Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and m ...
. Lacanian psychoanalyst and film theorist
Anna Guédy
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of
École Freudienne de Paris further influenced his academic career (lectures on film and voice in Paris), which led to a collaboration to critical theory journal
La Cause Freudienne
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edited by
Jacques Lacan
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and
Jacques-Alain Miller. Early friendships with French avant-garde actor
Serge Merlin
Serge Merlin (born Serge Merle; 29 December 1932 – 16 February 2019) was a French actor. He became internationally known for his role in the film ''Amélie
''Amélie'' (also known as ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; ; en, The F ...
and professor of declamation (in the tradition of
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including ''La Dame Aux Cameli ...
) Pierre Spivakoff deepened his understanding of voice. He began contributing extensive articles on voice, opera and
psycho-analysis, to leading journal ''
Avant-Scène Opera'' (from 1977 to 1984). On
Maria Callas
Maria Callas . (born Sophie Cecilia Kalos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her ''bel cant ...
' death (1977) French far-left daily
Libération
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(founded by
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lite ...
) asked Salazar to write her obituary.
At the prompting of both his philosophy advisor Louis Althusser and French sociologist
Georges Balandier
Georges Balandier (21 December 1920 – 5 October 2016) was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne (Un ...
, Salazar travelled to apartheid South Africa in 1978 to undertake field-research on racial
rhetoric
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, which led to a first doctoral dissertation in social and cultural
anthropology
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at the
Sorbonne University in Paris. The examination copy of his dissertation was blocked by the
South African Security Police but sneaked out of the
Apartheid
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state via diplomatic pouch (see preface to his book''An African Athens'' and eventually published as ''L'Intrigue Raciale: Essai de Critique Anthropologique''. He has since retained a strong interest in anthropology.
After returning to Paris, Salazar served for a while as Arts and Letters editor of controversial psycho-analytical magazine ''
Spirales'', edited by . He published lengthy interviews with
William Styron
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Styron was best known for his novels, including:
* '' Lie Down in Darkness'' (1951), his acclaimed f ...
, and painter Elizabeth Franzheim, and he resumed writing on opera in Avant-Scène Opera as well as ''
Opera International'', and ''Lyrica'' (interviews of
Nicolai Gedda,
Mirella Freni). He wrote also in French conservative-liberal monthly
Commentaire
''Commentaire'' is a French quarterly magazine, created in 1978 by Raymond Aron and Jean-Claude Casanova.
Aron's previous journal venture, started in 1970 and titled ''Contrepoint'', had been terminated in 1976 following disagreements among its f ...
. His first book ''Idéologies de l'opéra'' (1980) is considered a breakthrough in the field of
sociology
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and
anthropology
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of opera. Salazar dedicated the book to his mentor,
Germaine Lubin. In 1981, he published his opera ''Icare'' in Islamic poet and psychoanalyst
Michel Orcel
Michel Orcel (born 1952, in Marseille) is a contemporary French writer, publisher and psychoanalyst.
Biography
After studying classical literature at the Jesuits in Marseille, Michel Orcel graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Pari ...
's literary journal ''L'Alphée'' and contributed to
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal ''Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le S ...
's famed avant-garde journal ''L'Infini'' at the prompting of novelist
Dominique Rolin. He has since retained an interest in opera as a social form of knowledge (2000, keynote speaker of cross-cultural event ''Carmen 2000'', SoBe, Miami, and co-founded Espacio Cultural Triangular with New York photographer Ruben Roncallo).
This intersectional interest in
anthropology
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,
philosophy
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and
political theory
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led him to engage with a newly re-emerging field,
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate par ...
.
In the 1980s Salazar's senior doctorate advisor and
Balzan Prize
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laureate
Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in th ...
had reshaped the field of rhetoric studies in regard of French literary and political culture (Fumaroli shows how High Church rhetoric and its institutions had been appropriated by a centralized monarchy and then a secularized Republic). Since the late 1980s Fumaroli's work, in Paris, in Italy and at the
University of Chicago
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, has been decisive in the reshaping of cultural studies from a non, if not anti
structuralism
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and
deconstruction
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approach. Salazar's senior dissertation (or Doctorat d'Etat) concerned itself with oral culture in the French classical age and it remains to this day a reference work on the topic as ''Le Culte de la Voix au 17e Siècle''). The book is dedicated to the memory of
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western pop ...
and
Georges Dumézil
Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 189811 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique d ...
who had both encouraged him to make "voice" his very own scholarly project. In 1993 Salazar convened at
Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, a prestigious locale for cutting edge research, a colloquium to salute Fumaroli's pioneering work in rhetoric. During this "classical" phase Salazar published or edited key documents of French cultural tradition, such as
Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy's seminal ''De Arte Graphica''( a key document of
French Classicism in the fine arts), Bishop
Jacques Amyot's royal lectures on oratory for King Henri III, royal preceptor and theologian
Pierre Daniel Huet's ''Memoirs'', and skeptical philosopher
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
François de La Mothe Le Vayer (, August 15889 May 1672), was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV.
Early years
Le Vayer was born a ...
, the Sun-King's teacher. Recognized as a prominent 17th century studies scholar, Salazar was appointed to a Chair at Centre d’Etudes de la Renaissance, at
François Rabelais University
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, Tours, France in 1999. In 2000, Salazar relinquished the Tours Chair to devote his research to rhetoric as a "technology of power" in modern, public affairs. He took up an appointment as Distinguished Chair in Rhetoric and Humane Letters at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. At that time (1999) he was elected to a sought after 6-year Directorship in Rhetoric and Democracy at Jacques Derrida's Foundation,
Collège international de philosophie, in Paris, extending the work done at the Centre for Rhetoric Studies,
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
, he founded while Dean of Arts in 1994.
Rhetoric as a philosophy of power
The Centre for Rhetoric Studies at the
University of Cape Town
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was founded
with a view to study the importance of rhetoric for peaceful democracy (Mission Statement).
The projects based at the Centre in Cape Town mirrored Salazar's own research chair in Paris. Both focused on rhetoric as a foundation for public life, and in post-totalitarian democracy in particular. Influential magazine ''Sciences Humaines'' praised Salazar's book ''Hyperpolitique'' for resetting rhetoric at the centre of
human sciences
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enquiry
If Salazar's work is not unique in regard of a concern with rhetorical forms among contemporary French philosophers, its originality lies in its focus: rhetorical technologies of power in democracy, the question of reconciliation, and the practices of opinion-based, political "evil.". His work parallels that of fellow philosopher
François Jullien
François Jullien (born 2 June 1951 in Embrun, France) is a French philosopher, Hellenist, and sinologist.
Biography
An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and holder (since 1974) of the ''agrégation'', France's professorial d ...
on Chinese "manipulation" and of philologist and Heideggerian philosopher
Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin (; born 24 October 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an Emeritus ...
on Sophistry in Ancient Greece. Historian of the public sphere Emmanuel Lemieux ( author of ''Le Pouvoir Intellectuel'') called him an "atypical philosopher".
Seminal works have marked Salazar's reshaping of rhetoric as the study of forms of power in contemporary democracies: ''Truth in Politics'', ''Amnistier l’Apartheid'' (in
Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin (; born 24 October 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an Emeritus ...
and
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouc ...
's series Ordre Philosophique), ''Vérité, Réconciliation, Réparation'', a collaborative book with
Paul Ricoeur
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and
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed th ...
), credited for having introduced in French political thought the concept of
ubuntu
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(
Edwy Plenel, Le Monde, 12/30/2004). Salazar's works also include edited volumes on ''Democratic Rhetoric and the Duty of Deliberation'' and ''The Rhetorical Shape of International Conflicts''. In addition to his rhetorical analysis of declarations of war and a study of
Nobel Prize
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rhetoric in his edited volume on French rhetoric and philosophy today (''Philosophy and Rhetoric''). His work on the rhetorical foundation of politics extends beyond Europe and Africa, with a publication on'' Les Slaves'' (2005) and a book ''Mahomet'' (2006), a study of rhetorical common places regarding the Prophet of Islam. His publications led to a sustained conversation and broadcast on forgiveness and secularism with Arab poet and philosopher
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Abdelwahab Meddeb ( aeb, عبد الوهاب المدب; 1946 – 5 November 2014) was a French-language writer and cultural critic, and a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
Biography and career
Meddeb was ...
in 2006. and broadcast ''Cultures D'Islam'', 05/27/2006).
With ''Hyperpolitique'' (2009) Salazar opened a new area of investigation : rhetoric studies as philosophy of power. ''Le Nouvel Economiste'' carried a laudatory critique of the book and of its relevance for
leadership
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studies. More recent publications, ''Paroles de Leaders, Décrypter le Discours des Puissants'' in August 2011 (François Bourin Editeur), and ''L'Art de séduire l'électeur indécis'' have placed him at the forefront of the field. Premier management quarterly ''
L'Expansion
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History and profile
''L'Expansion'' was founded by Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber and Jean Boissonnat in 1967. In 1994 the ...
Management Review'' placed ''Paroles de Leaders'' on its "Books To Read" list (September 2011). Salazar is currently engaging with covert forms of power, intelligence and
surveillance
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studies, with a lead essay in Italian philosophy journal ''Lo Sguardo'', an edited volume for Swiss transnational journal and think tank Cosmopolis, following a collaborative volume on ''Surveillance/Rhetoric'' (with a lead contribution by
Antonio Negri).
Salazar's work has secured him a global influence in his field. He has addressed the Observatoire de la Transition démocratique et Forum de la Citoyenneté, in Rabat, Morocco, ahead of the Moroccan
Equite et Réconciliation National Commission (2004). He has held the Annual Seminar in Peace and Conflict Resolution at
Concordia University
Concordia University (French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
in Montreal, Canada. Among his signature public lectures: the Annual Lecture in Law and Literature at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice (John Jay) is a public college focused on criminal justice and located in New York City. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY). John Jay was founded as the only liberal art ...
, CUNY, New York; the 18th Kenneth Burke Annual Lecture at the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State in which he outlined his thinking on the rhetorical foundation of political philosophy and addressed a colloquium on the U.S. presidency and its rhetoric of virtue (France Culture Lecture); the Buenos Aires Forum of Rhetoric (Conferencia de Apertura); the Balkan Summer University for young philosophers on rhetorical technologies of domination in democratic societies; in Brussels the ULB's annual public lecture on democracy and debate; in 2011 at the
University of Nanking and at
Yangzhou University; in 2017 at the Fondazione MAST, in Bologna, Italy; and at the Berlin literature festival Haus für Poesie. Salazar has extended the scope of rhetorical critique to Marxism in avant-garde journals ''Consecutio Temporum'' and ''Transeuropéennes''.
As a public intellectual Salazar has appeared on France-Culture, French C-Span: Public-Senat. and notably
TV5 Monde
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The network is available across ...
. He has written for
Le Figaro
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,
L'Express
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History ...
,
Le Point
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History and profile
''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...
, ''
Le Nouvel Observateur
(), previously known as (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Cécil ...
'',
Atlantico
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., Causeur and
Valeurs Actuelles. He appears regularly on the
Rachel Marsden
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show,on
Sputnik (news agency) radio in French. He contributes to the publications of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies and a Defense and Security studies site. In addition to his regular chronicles for online culture newsmagazine ''Les Influences'' as ''Le rhéteur cosmopolite'' and ''Comment raisonnent-ils?'', and blogs a
Yale Books Unbound
His award-winning book,
', has received international praise. It is a full-scale analysis of the
Islamic State
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's propaganda and rhetorical strategies of influence (published in five languages). On the occasion of the
Darmstadt
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premiere of
Nobel laureate
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Elfriede Jelinek's play ''
Wut'' ("Rage"), on the January 2015 Paris terror attack against
Charlie Hebdo
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by militants of the Islamic State (
ISIS
Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...
) excerpts of Salazar's ''Die Sprache des Terrors'' were reprinted to introduce the play. The French book received the coveted
prix Bristol des Lumières (best nonfiction) a day before the November 2015 Paris
Bataclan (theatre)
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massacre by Islamic State's militants.
His most recent book, in French (''Suprémacistes'', 2020), is a full scale study of key figures of the international
white supremacy
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/white nationalism, what he calls the "white awakening" in his critical legal study essay on mass murderer
Dylann Roof
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.
Professional activities
He is Honorary Life President of the Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa, Vice-President of the Chinese Global Society for Visual Communication, Founding and Honorary Member of the Sociedad Latinamericana de Retorica. He sits on the Editorial Board of ''
Philosophy and Rhetoric
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'' and ''Javnost-The Public''. He collaborates with French publishe
Piranhaas editorial adviser at large for foreign fiction (novels by
Christopher Hope,
Kazuki Sakuraba,
Phil Redmond). From 2007 to 2014 he directed a series of publications on the power of rhetoric at (the oldest publishing house in the social sciences in France) ranging from Buddhist rhetoric (
Rada Ivekovic) to
Heidegger (Valerie Allen and Ares D. Axiotis), from visual eloquence (Hanno Hardt) at the time of the disintegration of Yugoslavia to Third Reich and DDR propaganda machines (Randall L. Bytwerk), from migrants' eloquence to political styles (
Robert Hariman). Founder and current co-chairman of the Macmillan Club.
Conservatives Abroad
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The Americas, wh ...
: https://www.conservativesabroad.org/south-africa Aviator member of the
Aéro-Club de France, and author o
''Air Law, A Comprehensive Sourcebook For Southern African Pilots''and a regular contributor to ''
SA Flyer-African Aviation''; journalist-level member of the
National Press Club (USA)
The National Press Club is a professional organization and social community in Washington, D.C. for journalists and communications professionals. It hosts public and private gatherings with invited speakers from public life. The club also offers ...
of Washington, and of the
Owl Club. In 2022, on the occasion of the Ben Beinart Lecture at Cape Town Law school, the international community of rhetoricians presented him with a Festschrift to celebrate his forty years scholarship in rhetoric studies, ''The Incomprehensible: The Critical Rhetoric of Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Publications
Monographs and edited volumes
* ''La Déroute des Idées. Appel à La Résistance''. 2021. Paris: Piranha
* ''Suprémacistes''. 2020. Paris:
Plon.
* ''Air Law.'' 2019.
Juta: Cape Town
*
Grand Oral', Paris/Brussels, Genese, 2019
*''Words Are Weapons. Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror'', Yale University Press, 2017
* ''Blabla République. Au Verbe, Citoyens''. Paris: Lemieux Editeur, 2017 . Watch his prime time interview Grand Angle on
TV5 Monde
TV5Monde (), formerly known as TV5, is a French public television network, broadcasting several channels of French-language programming. It is an approved participant member of the European Broadcasting Union.
The network is available across ...
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjehMVQEsPo
* ''Palabras Armadas'', Barcelona,
Anagrama, 2016.
* ''Die Sprache des Terrors'', Munich, Random House/Pantheon, 2016.
* ''Parole armate'', Bompiani, 2016.
* ''Paroles Armées, Comprendre et Combattre La Propagande Terroriste'', Lemieux Editeur, Paris, 2015
* ''Lesa Humanidad'' (con Claudia Hilb y Martin Lucas Eds), Katz Editores, Madrid, 2014
''Rhetoric in South America''(with M A Vitale Eds), AfricaRhetoric Publisher, 2013 (eBook )
Paris, Francois Bourin Editeur, 2012.
* (Ed., with C Mihali and P. Michel) ''Figures de l'Etat et Institutionnalisation du Pouvoir'', Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Idea and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2011.
*
', Paris, François Bourin, 2011.
* ''Under the Baobab. Essays to Honour Stuart Saunders'', Cape Town, AfricaRhetoric Publishing, 2011.
* (Ed.) ''Gender Rhetoric: North-South'', with Jairos Kangira, Windhoek, Namibia, PolyPress, 2010.
*''L'hyperpolitique. Une passion française'', Paris, Klincksieck, 2009, 200 p.
*(Ed.) ''Women's Rhetoric. Argumentative Strategies,'' with
Brigitte Mral and Nicole Bjorg, Åstorp, Retorikförlaget, 2009.
* ''
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa. The Fundamental Document''s, with
Erik Doxtader, Cape Town, New Africa Books/David Philip, 2008, 478 p.
()
Open access* ''Mahomet'', Paris, Klincksieck, 2005, XXVII-390 p. ().
* (Ed.)
Adam Mickiewicz, ''Les Slaves, Cours du Collège de France 1842'', Paris, Klincksieck, 2005, 248 p. ().
* (Ed.) ''Amnistier l’apartheid'', Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 352 p, ().
* (Ed.)
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
François de La Mothe Le Vayer (, August 15889 May 1672), was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero. He was admitted to the Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV.
Early years
Le Vayer was born a ...
. ''De la patrie et des étrangers et autres traités sceptiques'', Paris, Desjonquères, 2003, 336 p. ().
* ''L’Art de parler. Anthologie de manuels d’éloquenc''e, Paris, Klincksieck, 2003, 370 p. ()
* ''An African Athens. Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa'', Mahwah, NJ/London, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, 248 p. ().
* ''Parole démocratique. Entames rhétoriques'', Paris, Collège international de philosophie, Les Papiers du Collège, 56, 2001, 54p.
* ''La Divine Sceptique. Éthique et rhétorique au XVIIe siècle'', Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000, 131p. ()
* ''Afrique du Sud. La révolution fraternelle'', Paris, Hermann, 1998, 121 p.().
* (Ed.) ''Le Loisir Lettré à l'âge classique'', co-Ed. with
Marc Fumaroli
Marc Fumaroli (10 June 1932 – 24 June 2020) was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture. While born in Marseille, Fumaroli grew up in the Moroccan city of Fez, and served in th ...
and Emmanuel Bury, Geneva, Droz, 1996, 359 p. ().
* L''e Culte de la voix au XVIIe siècle. Formes esthétiques de la parole à l'âge de l'imprimé'', Paris-Geneva, Champion-Slatkine, 1995, 408 p. ().
* (Ed.) ''Afriques imaginaires, Regards réciproques et discours littéraires, XVIIe-XXe siècles'', co-Ed. with Anny Wynchank, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1995, 295p. ().
* (Ed.) ''Mémoires de
Pierre Daniel Huet'', new edition, Paris/Toulouse, Klincksieck/SLC, 1993, 170 p. ()
* (Ed.) ''Projet d'éloquence royale de
Jacques Amyot'', new edition, with a prefatory essay "Le Monarque orateur," Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1992, 104 p. ().
* ''Du Graphe, or De Arte Graphica de
Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy'', translated from Latin into French, with a prefatory essay "L'institution de la peinture," Paris, L'Alphée, 1990, 98-121.
* ''L'intrigue raciale. Essai de critique anthropologique'', Paris, Méridiens Klincksieck, 1989, 230 p. ().
* ''Ideologije U Operi'', Belgrade, Nolit, Muzika, 1985, 228 p. (Serbo-Croatian translation of item below).
* ''Idéologies de l'opéra'', Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1980, 208 p. ().
Journal editorship
''How Does Law Communicate?'', co-edited with K Kotzé PhD, Javnost-The Public, 27/4, 2020
* "A critique of surveillance",
CosmopolisA Review of Cosmopolitics'', 2015 (ISSN 2030-028X).
* ''
Mandela (y otros) habla español'', ''African Yearbook of Rhetoric''
vol 5 2014.
* "Rhetoric of Statecraft", ''African Yearbook of Rhetoric''
vol 4/1 2013
nline * "Diplomatic Rhetoric in the South,"
vol 3/3 2012.
* "Surveillance/Rhetoric", ''African Yearbook of Rhetoric''
vol 3/1 2011, 114 p.
SSN 2220-2188* "The Great Speeches of Africa's Liberation," ''African Yearbook of Rhetoric'', vol 2/3, 2011, 93 p.
SSN 2220-2188*
Philosophy and Rhetoric in France Today", special issue of ''Philosophy & Rhetoric'', 42(4), 2009, 114 p.().
* "Trente années de recherches rhétoriques", ''Dix-Septième Siècle'', LIX (3), no. 236, 2007, 421-426. ().
* "The Rhetorical Shape of International Conflicts", J''avnost-The Public'', 12, 4, 2005. () Online ().
* "Vérité, réconciliation, réparation", with
Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin (; born 24 October 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an Emeritus ...
and Olivier Cayla, L''e Genre Humain'', 43, 2004, 365 p. ().
* "Truth in Politics", with Sanya Osha and Wim van Binsbergen, ''Quest. An African Journal of Philosophy/Une Revue Africaine de Philosophie'', XVI (1-2), 2004, 274 p. ().
* "Democratic Rhetoric and The Duty of Deliberation", ''Javnost-The Public'', 8(3), 2001, 78 p. (). Online ().
* "Institution de la parole en Afrique du Sud", ''Rue Descartes'', 17, 1997, 178 p. ().
Series Editor
As an Editorial Advisor At Large for Foreign Fiction,
Piranhapublishing house:
*
Christopher Hope, ''Jimfish'', 2017.
*
Kazuki Sakuraba, ''La Légende des Akakuchiba'', 2017.
*
Phil Redmond, ''Retour à Highbridge'', 2017.
As Director,
Klincksieck publishing house:
* Valerie Allen et Ares D. Axiotis, ''L'art d'enseigner de
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th centu ...
, pour la Commission de dénazification'', trad. de Xavier Blandi, suivi de Philippe-Joseph Salazar, ''Manifeste'', 2007.
Hanno Hardt ''Des murs éloquents/ Eloquent Walls'', 2008.
* Ralph Keysers, ''Cinq mots forts de la propagande nazie'', 2008.
*
Robert Hariman, ''Le Pouvoir est une question de style'', trad. de Laurent Bury, 2009.
* Randall L. Bytwerk, ''Machines à broyer les âmes, Allemagne totalitaire 1933-1989'', trad. de Laurent Bury, 2011.
* Jean-Philippe Dedieu, ''La parole immigrée'', 2012.
*
Rada Ivekovic, ''L'éloquence tempérée du Bouddha'', 2014.
References
External links
actudefenseleplus.nouvelobsTranseuropeennesatlanticoConsecutio temporumCosmopolisThe Macmillan Club of Cape Town, Conservatives Abroad* Marefa (in Arabic
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People from Casablanca
French rhetoricians
1955 births
École Normale Supérieure alumni
French philosophers
Living people
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
Alumni of Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca)
French male non-fiction writers
Academic staff of the University of Cape Town