Le discours politique ou l’art de mobiliser le langage contre la pensée
Political Speech or the Art of Mobilizing Language Against Thought, at the Risk of Violence

Summary/Abstract: If language and thought are often understood as mutually nourishing each other, the language of communication in politics appears as a form that opposes and obstructs the development of thought. Under these conditions, the quest for justice, truth and beauty, « sacred » purposes of a humanist conception of education, become the object of the hatred of a (political) power determined to desecrate them on the altar of a most dogmatic catechism, with the narrowest intellectual ambitions. Consequently, can we not say that political discourse obstructs the development of citizens’ thinking?

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