Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Biographic Data
| ID | 139315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippe-Joseph Salazar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippe-Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Salazar |
| SIGNATURE | SALAZAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9343-4999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taxis Over Style
This article concerns itself with the displacement and silencing of style in McKeon’s collegiate editions of Aristotle’s Rhetoric. It is divided into two parts: The first proposes unactual elements on style; the second deals with McKeon’s promotion of taxis over style in his editions of Aristotle’s Rhetoric. The article concludes with a brief proposal on the uses and abuses of Pericles’s Funeral Oration
The Unachieved Momentum of Liberation
Taking the example of the French Résistance and by summoning up the twin rhetorical concepts of kinesis and energeia, this article establishes the long reach of a national liberation trajectory, of which the Résistance was a key moment in its attempt to free the country and to move ahead with the project and promise of an ideal republic
Astonishment and Evocation
All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aes…
Forum of Conscience
How can one sum up an argument in 150 words? If one can, then the argument is in no need to be explicated over an essay. This is the conundrum at the heart of procedures that govern “what cannot be said.” This conundrum has two roots: one is the neoliberal assent to managerial procedures whereby a procedure inserted in a debate closes it up; the other is a perverse recourse to “conversation,” which is tantamount to impose an idiom as an ideal of …
The Covington smile
This essay is a detailed study of an event that took place in January 2019 in Washington DC on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It was a confrontation between Catholic schoolboys returning from a March for Life and mainly Native Americans led by an Omaha elder. The ‘faceoff’ between the two central protagonists, Nicholas Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, went viral as the embodiment and enactment of white racism. It occasioned massive lawsuits for …
“I, Dylann Roof”—White Voice V. the Force of Law
Dylann S. Roof, white supremacist perpetrator of the Charleston massacre (2015) resolved to dismiss his lawyers and to represent himself. In the course of the proceedings he wrote extensively, keeping notes and diaries, and also writing directly to the Court, in addition to engaging in a dialogue with the judge. Using Bourdieu on the concept of “force of law” and Foucault on the concept of order of discourse, this essay proposes that Roof reclaim…
The Virus That Dares (Us) Not (to) Speak Its Name
Unless a democratic citizenry, when it gets shaped at school, is asked to formulate complex answers to simple questions (as illustrated in this essay), there is no other avenue for their destiny than ressentiment against “the world,” which expresses itself in either a parading of culture or an inordinate sense of revolt
The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse
This paper suggests ways to examine the American Alt-Right as a community of discourse. It relies on Michel Foucault’s notion that discourse is marked by external procedures of prohibition, division and will to truth, and it shows how the Alt-Right owes its powerful emergence in the public sphere to these procedures. It concludes with a brief recall that internal procedures also shape a community of discourse, by giving its actors access to comme…
Words are weapons
ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital Caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aesthetic of ISIS and its self-presentation. As a philosopher and historian of ideas, well versed in both the Western and the Islamic traditions, Salazar posits an interpretation of Islam that places speech -…
Paroles armées
262 pages ; 17 cm
New beginnings
Rituals of complicity, the 'humanities' rhetoric, and the closing of the South African mind
Performances of disclosure
The French language enjoys in French culture the status of a living myth which helps define what'to be French' is, or is not, while at the heart of this national myth lies the French Academy, perhaps the most enduring institution in modern France, across political changes and cultural upheavals. This essay analyses how, in the seventeenth century, the Academy was invented to perform a disclosure of symbolic power residing within this national myt…
Rhetoric and anthropology
This essay deals with the relationship between rhetoric and anthropology, along three main lines of argument. The author offers reflections on the relationship between the two fields, highlighting contentious intersections, as in the case of the French anthropological tradition. He proposes to weigh the rhetorical definition of 'figure' or 'trope', and to revisit these rhetorical concepts. He then turns to a case of social performance, that of pe…
Dire la vérité, faire la réconciliation, manquer la réparation
Une conversion politique du religieux
Censorship a Philological (and Rhetorical) Viewpoint
The word “censorship” is philologically rooted in a glossary of key notions that span across the spectrum of the paradigm of authority. Based on analyses by Emile Benveniste, from his Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, this essay aims at bringing out the censorial denotations of “authority,” “war,” “award,” “direction,” as well as, for instance, the embedded censorial dimension of, for instance, the rhetorical presidency. It closes on…
Vérité, réconciliation, réparation
Compromise and Deliberation
The South African ''compromise'' remains unique in the history of post-colonialism (if it belongs at all to that category, which is open to debate). Ten years after Mandela's election to the presidency, and his calm refusal of personal self-perpetuation, in contrast to most presidencies in most western-style democracies, South Africa remains somewhat of an aporia. However, the South African anchoring in compromise as constitutive of democracy unv…
Afrique du Sud. Éloges démocratiques
Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa (ARCSA)
An African Athens
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting the country as a remarkable stage for playing out the great themes of public deliberation and the rise of postmodern rhetorical democracy. Salazar's in…
Perpetrator, ou de la citoyenneté criminelle
Espace rhétorique
Espace et rhétorique ?Aussitôt, je le concède, une image saugrenue m'est venue à l'esprit, comme un « hiéroglyphe » de la Renaisance ou un emblème à la façon du Père Menestrier.Le corps en serait « Un chameau dans un désert brûlant » et l'âme « Oultre l'autre ».J'imagine la rhétorique comme le cavalier sur son chameau qui, sans l'outre du ventre, n'ira pas outre dans l'espace de tous les espaces.La parole persuasive ne trouve pas en soi son outre…
Rhetorique et vernaculaire au XVIIe siecle
Censorship a Philological (and Rhetorical) Viewpoint
The word “censorship” is philologically rooted in a glossary of key notions that span across the spectrum of the paradigm of authority. Based on analyses by Emile Benveniste, from his Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, this essay aims at bringing out the censorial denotations of “authority,” “war,” “award,” “direction,” as well as, for instance, the embedded censorial dimension of, for instance, the rhetorical presidency. It closes on…
Rhodesia blues ou la fin d'un monde
La mort d'Alceste
Armida Vendicata
Cinéma et opéra. Portrait de l'artiste en belle dame
Les gogos à l'opéra
Barthes as pedagogue
Both texts presented here are previously unpublished material from Roland Barthes. By from the translator, who functions as a scriptor, means that the authenticity of these fragments is relative to what is usually understood by authorship. As verbatim excerpts of Barthes’ live teaching their ambiguous status would have pleased the author of Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes. These texts illustrate the Barthesian pedagogic rhetoric as well as thro…
Droit et sociologie en Afrique du Sud
Michel Serres or the turbulence of interpretation
Michel Serres’ conception of the rapports between science and literature is exerting a decisive influence on French philosophy and literary criticism. Serres, by drawing on Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology, and through his attentive reading of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, addresses the question that French modern thought has left fallow: is there a viewpoint that, from within the precinct of epistemology, allows for an investigation of litera…
Rhetorique et vernaculaire au XVIIe siecle
The Rhetoric of French Positivism
An African Athens
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting the country as a remarkable stage for playing out the great themes of public deliberation and the rise of postmodern rhetorical democracy. Salazar's in…
Perpetrator, ou de la citoyenneté criminelle
Espace rhétorique
Espace et rhétorique ?Aussitôt, je le concède, une image saugrenue m'est venue à l'esprit, comme un « hiéroglyphe » de la Renaisance ou un emblème à la façon du Père Menestrier.Le corps en serait « Un chameau dans un désert brûlant » et l'âme « Oultre l'autre ».J'imagine la rhétorique comme le cavalier sur son chameau qui, sans l'outre du ventre, n'ira pas outre dans l'espace de tous les espaces.La parole persuasive ne trouve pas en soi son outre…
Afrique du Sud. Éloges démocratiques
Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa (ARCSA)
Dire la vérité, faire la réconciliation, manquer la réparation
Une conversion politique du religieux
Censorship a Philological (and Rhetorical) Viewpoint
The word “censorship” is philologically rooted in a glossary of key notions that span across the spectrum of the paradigm of authority. Based on analyses by Emile Benveniste, from his Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, this essay aims at bringing out the censorial denotations of “authority,” “war,” “award,” “direction,” as well as, for instance, the embedded censorial dimension of, for instance, the rhetorical presidency. It closes on…
Vérité, réconciliation, réparation
Compromise and Deliberation
The South African ''compromise'' remains unique in the history of post-colonialism (if it belongs at all to that category, which is open to debate). Ten years after Mandela's election to the presidency, and his calm refusal of personal self-perpetuation, in contrast to most presidencies in most western-style democracies, South Africa remains somewhat of an aporia. However, the South African anchoring in compromise as constitutive of democracy unv…
Rhetoric and anthropology
This essay deals with the relationship between rhetoric and anthropology, along three main lines of argument. The author offers reflections on the relationship between the two fields, highlighting contentious intersections, as in the case of the French anthropological tradition. He proposes to weigh the rhetorical definition of 'figure' or 'trope', and to revisit these rhetorical concepts. He then turns to a case of social performance, that of pe…
Performances of disclosure
The French language enjoys in French culture the status of a living myth which helps define what'to be French' is, or is not, while at the heart of this national myth lies the French Academy, perhaps the most enduring institution in modern France, across political changes and cultural upheavals. This essay analyses how, in the seventeenth century, the Academy was invented to perform a disclosure of symbolic power residing within this national myt…
New beginnings
Rituals of complicity, the 'humanities' rhetoric, and the closing of the South African mind
Paroles armées
262 pages ; 17 cm
Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Rhetoric (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Literature (5 works)