1. Philippe-Joseph Salazar attended the Lycee Louis-le-Grand secondary-school in Paris before studying philosophy, politics and literature at the Ecole Normale Superieure.
23 Facts About Philippe-Joseph Salazar
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Since 1999, Philippe-Joseph Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar began contributing extensive articles on voice, opera and psycho-analysis, to leading journal Avant-Scene Opera.
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On Maria Callas' death French far-left daily Liberation asked Philippe-Joseph Salazar to write her obituary.
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At the prompting of both his philosophy advisor Louis Althusser and French sociologist Georges Balandier, Philippe-Joseph Salazar travelled to apartheid South Africa in 1978 to undertake field-research on racial rhetoric, which led to a first doctoral dissertation in social and cultural anthropology at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has since retained a strong interest in anthropology.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar published lengthy interviews with William Styron, and painter Elizabeth Franzheim, and he resumed writing on opera in Avant-Scene Opera as well as Opera International, and Lyrica.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has since retained an interest in opera as a social form of knowledge.
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In 1993 Philippe-Joseph 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.
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In 2000, Philippe-Joseph Salazar relinquished the Tours Chair to devote his research to rhetoric as a "technology of power" in modern, public affairs.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar took up an appointment as Distinguished Chair in Rhetoric and Humane Letters at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar's works include edited volumes on Democratic Rhetoric and the Duty of Deliberation and The Rhetorical Shape of International Conflicts.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar's publications led to a sustained conversation and broadcast on forgiveness and secularism with Arab poet and philosopher Abdelwahab Meddeb in 2006.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar's work has secured him a global influence in his field.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has addressed the Observatoire de la Transition democratique et Forum de la Citoyennete, in Rabat, Morocco, ahead of the Moroccan Equite et Reconciliation National Commission.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has held the Annual Seminar in Peace and Conflict Resolution at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has extended the scope of rhetorical critique to Marxism in avant-garde journals Consecutio Temporum and Transeuropeennes.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar has written for Le Figaro, L'Express, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur, Atlantico.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar appears regularly on the Rachel Marsden show, on Sputnik radio in French.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar contributes to the publications of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies and a Defense and Security studies site.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar's award-winning book, Paroles armees, has received international praise.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar 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.
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Philippe-Joseph Salazar sits on the Editorial Board of Philosophy and Rhetoric and Javnost-The Public.