Distinguished Professor Philippe-Joseph Salazar A graduate in philosophy, politics and literature from Ecole normale supérieure and the Sorbonne (Paris), where he studied under Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes and Marc Fumaroli, and had Louis Althusser as tutor, Philippe-Joseph Salazar is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies. He is a former Director in Rhetoric and Democracy at Jacques Derrida's foundation, College international de Philosophie, Paris. A sought-after speaker, he has held a number of prestigious guest appointments and invitations in France, Russia, Canada, Morocco, Sweden and the United States, and leads a number of international projects in public rhetoric (Morocco, France, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Romania). Among his publications, which span a wide field of enquiry in the theory, history and culture of rhetoric, his African Athens (2002), Amnistier l'Apartheid (2004) and Mahomet (2005) have garnered special praises. He is currently at work on a rhetorical ethnography of Central and Northern Europe. In 2007, he co-authored (with Erik Doxtader, South Carolina), Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa. The Fundamental Documents (David Philip). He is a Life Fellow of the University of Cape Town and holds an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. He is the 2008 laureate of the Harry Oppenheimer award. He is editor-in-chief of "Power of Persuasion", a series devoted to rhetoric and politics at France's oldest publisher in the Social Sciences, Klincksieck (http://www.klincksieck.com/collections/pouvoirs-de-persuasion/). Read his weekly chronicle: Le Rhéteur Cosmopolite Publisher's Page Philippe-Joseph_Salazar - Wikipedia Browse Publications by Salazar