Philosophy & Rhetoric Apr 2022

Forum of Conscience: Entry and Exit Prohibited

Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Abstract

ABSTRACT How can one sum up an argument in 150 words? If one can, then the argument is in no need to be explicated over an essay. This is the conundrum at the heart of procedures that govern “what cannot be said.” This conundrum has two roots: one is the neoliberal assent to managerial procedures whereby a procedure inserted in a debate closes it up; the other is a perverse recourse to “conversation,” which is tantamount to impose an idiom as an ideal of virtue. Both are summary and summarizing speech acts that cast opposition as blasphemy. This essay explores the assertoric, apodictic, and euphemistic modes by which “what cannot be said” materializes into “what must not be thought.”

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2022-04-01
DOI
10.5325/philrhet.55.1.0040
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