LE DISCOURS POLITIQUE OU L’ART DE MOBILISER LE LANGAGE CONTRE LA PENSEE.

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? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]