Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Philippe-Joseph Salazar (French: [salazaʁ]) is a French rhetorician and philosopher. He was born on February 10, 1955 in Casablanca, in what was then French Morocco. Salazar attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand a prestigious secondary school in Paris (founded 1563) before studying philosophy, politics and literature at the École Normale Supérieure. Currently a distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Humane Letters at the University of Cape Town. Salazar writes a regular column on French public intellectual, online magazine Les Influences He is Editor-In-Chief of a series on Powers of Persuasion at prestigious Klincksieck (), the oldest publishing house in the social sciences in France. Founder of AfricaRhetoric Publishing [1]. Salazar's lifelong achievements made him the recipient of Africa's premier research award in 2008, the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. Awarded in 2015 a prestigious French literary prize for political non-fiction, , for his book on the rhetoric of jihadism Paroles armèes.

As a university student, Salazar studied under Louis Althusser, establishing his membership with the Conférence Olivaint, an exclusive club dedicated to training future leaders, in the Catholic and liberal tradition for public oratory. Afterwards, Salazar completed a voluntary internship at the cultural affairs section of Paris City Hall.

Salazar would later pursue his graduate degree, studying metaphor and ontology with Emmanuel Levinas, semiotics of voice with Roland Barthes and political theory with Maurice Duverger. Lacanian psychoanalyst and film theorist Anna Guédy 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 with Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller.

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