Philippe-Joseph Salazar

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Philippe-Joseph Salazar
École Normale Supérieure
InstitutionsUniversity of Cape Town, Collège international de philosophie
Main interests
rhetoric

Philippe-Joseph Salazar (French:

rhetorician and philosopher,[1]

Early life

Salazar was born on 10 February 1955 in

École Normale Supérieure. Since 1999, Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.[3] 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, Prix Bristol des Lumières [fr], for his book on the rhetoric of jihadism
: Paroles armées (2015; English title: Words are Weapons. Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror).

From voice to rhetoric

Salazar's advisor at

Chirac
was mayor.

Salazar would later pursue graduate studies in metaphysics (on metaphor and ontology) with

psycho-analysis, to leading journal Avant-Scène Opera[6] (from 1977 to 1984). On Maria Callas' death (1977) French far-left daily Libération (founded by Jean-Paul Sartre
) asked Salazar to write her obituary.

At the prompting of both his philosophy advisor Louis Althusser and French sociologist

Sorbonne University in Paris. The examination copy of his dissertation was blocked by the South African Security Police but sneaked out of the Apartheid state via diplomatic pouch (see preface to his bookAn African Athens[7] and eventually published as L'Intrigue Raciale: Essai de Critique Anthropologique.[8]
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 Armando Verdiglione [it]. He published lengthy interviews with William Styron, and painter Elizabeth Franzheim, and he resumed writing on opera in Avant-Scène Opera as well as Opera International,[9] and Lyrica (interviews of Nicolai Gedda, Mirella Freni). He wrote also in French conservative-liberal monthly Commentaire.[10] His first book Idéologies de l'opéra (1980) is considered a breakthrough in the field of sociology and anthropology of opera.[11] Salazar dedicated the book to his mentor, Germaine Lubin. In 1981, he published his opera Icare in Islamic poet and psychoanalyst Michel Orcel's literary journal L'Alphée and contributed to Philippe Sollers's famed avant-garde journal L'Infini at the prompting of novelist Dominique Rolin.[12] 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,[13] and co-founded Espacio Cultural Triangular with New York photographer Ruben Roncallo).[14]

This intersectional interest in

political theory led him to engage with a newly re-emerging field, rhetoric
.

In the 1980s Salazar's senior doctorate advisor and

François Rabelais University, 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
, he founded while Dean of Arts in 1994.

Rhetoric as a philosophy of power

The Centre for Rhetoric Studies at the

human sciences enquiry[21]

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.".[22] His work parallels that of fellow philosopher François Jullien on Chinese "manipulation" and of philologist and Heideggerian philosopher Barbara Cassin on Sophistry in Ancient Greece. Historian of the public sphere Emmanuel Lemieux ( author of Le Pouvoir Intellectuel)[23] 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,

ubuntu (Edwy Plenel, Le Monde, 12/30/2004).[25] Salazar's works also include edited volumes on Democratic Rhetoric and the Duty of Deliberation[26] and The Rhetorical Shape of International Conflicts.[27] In addition to his rhetorical analysis of declarations of war[28] and a study of Nobel Prize rhetoric in his edited volume on French rhetoric and philosophy today (Philosophy and Rhetoric).[29] His work on the rhetorical foundation of politics extends beyond Europe and Africa, with a publication on Les Slaves (2005)[30] and a book Mahomet (2006),[31] a study of rhetorical common places regarding the Prophet of Islam.[32] His publications led to a sustained conversation and broadcast on forgiveness and secularism with Arab poet and philosopher Abdelwahab Meddeb in 2006.[33] and broadcast Cultures D'Islam, 27 May 2006).[34]

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 studies.[35] More recent publications, Paroles de Leaders, Décrypter le Discours des Puissants in August 2011 (François Bourin Editeur),[36] and L'Art de séduire l'électeur indécis[37] have placed him at the forefront of the field. Premier management quarterly L'Expansion Management Review placed Paroles de Leaders on its "Books To Read" list (September 2011). Salazar is currently engaging with covert forms of power, intelligence[38] and surveillance studies, with a lead essay in Italian philosophy journal Lo Sguardo,[39] an edited volume for Swiss transnational journal and think tank Cosmopolis,[40] following a collaborative volume on Surveillance/Rhetoric (with a lead contribution by Antonio Negri).[41]

Salazar's work has secured him a global influence in his field.

Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Among his signature public lectures: the Annual Lecture in Law and Literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York; the 18th Kenneth Burke Annual Lecture at the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State[43] 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);[44] the Buenos Aires Forum of Rhetoric (Conferencia de Apertura);[45] the Balkan Summer University for young philosophers on rhetorical technologies of domination in democratic societies;[46] in Brussels the ULB's annual public lecture on democracy and debate; in 2011 at the University of Nanking and at Yangzhou University;[47] in 2017 at the Fondazione MAST, in Bologna, Italy;[48] and at the Berlin literature festival Haus für Poesie.[49] Salazar has extended the scope of rhetorical critique to Marxism in avant-garde journals Consecutio Temporum[50] and Transeuropéennes.[51]

As a public intellectual Salazar has appeared on France-Culture,

Valeurs Actuelles. He appears regularly on the Rachel Marsden show,on Sputnik (news agency) radio in French. He contributes to the publications of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies[57] and a Defense and Security studies site.[58] In addition to his regular chronicles for online culture newsmagazine Les Influences as Le rhéteur cosmopolite and Comment raisonnent-ils?,[59]
and blogs at Yale Books Unbound.

His award-winning book, Paroles armées, has received international praise.

ISIS) excerpts of Salazar's Die Sprache des Terrors were reprinted to introduce the play.[61] The French book received the coveted prix Bristol des Lumières (best nonfiction) a day before the November 2015 Paris Bataclan (theatre)
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/white nationalism, what he calls the "white awakening" in his critical legal study essay on mass murderer Dylann Roof.[62]

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

National Press Club (USA) 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.[64]

Publications

Monographs and edited volumes

Journal editorship

Series Editor

As an Editorial Advisor At Large for Foreign Fiction, Piranha publishing house:

As Director, Klincksieck publishing house:

  • Valerie Allen et Ares D. Axiotis, L'art d'enseigner de Martin Heidegger, 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.

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