Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Philippe-Joseph Salazar

French rhetorician and philosopher

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1955

Place of Birth: Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

Profession: university teacher, aircraft pilot, philosopher, semiologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Philippe-Joseph Salazar

  • Philippe-Joseph Salazar (French: [salaza?]), a French rhetorician and philosopher, was born on February 10, 1955 in Casablanca, then part of French Morocco.
  • Salazar attended the LycĂ©e Louis-le-Grand a prestigious secondary-school in Paris (founded 1563) before studying philosophy, politics and literature at the École Normale SupĂ©rieure.
  • Since 1999 Salazar is a Distinguished Professor in Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and presently affiliated to the Law School. Salazar writes a regular column in the French public intellectual online magazine Les Influences.
  • 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, for his book on the rhetoric of jihadism: Paroles armĂ©es (2015), translated in four languages (in English, Words are Weapons.
  • Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror, Yale UP, 2017).

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