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The study analyses the academic speech of the Košice local censor Ignác Gotzig and the preserved sources illuminating his censorship activities and conflicts arising with his superiors mainly due to his nonconformant teaching methods and alleged failure to fulfil his censorship duties. It shows that he used the formalised form of speech as a space for reflection on problematic topics and ideas. By doing so, he charged academic speech with a polemical, nearly leaflet-like, content, and thus allowed us to contemplate censors as an unstable element in the system of social control in the spreading of ideas. The author initiates reflections on the study of censor conflicts as a source of anthropology of the Enlightenment and as a space for the perception of the transfer of Enlightenment ideas and the secularisation of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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