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Palabre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

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What is palabre? Not only an exchange of words, but also a social drama, a procedure, and set of human interactions. Palabre is therefore a putting into scene, a putting into order, and a putting into words

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Copyright © 1998 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Notes

1. Extracts pulled together by the author from: La Palabre, une juridiction de la parole (Paris, 1997), pp. 9, 10, 11, 40, 41, 42, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123.

2. We are using F. Jacques's classification concerning "agon" and "irénè" in Espace logique de l'interlocution (Paris, 1985).

3. B. Atangana, "Actualité de la palabre," Etudes 324 (Paris, 1966), p. 461.

4. G. Bataille, L'Expérience intérieure (Paris, 1954), p. 62.

5. Idem, in Ecrits posthumes; CEuvres Complètes, Vol. II (Paris, 1970), p. 370.

6. Claude Lefort, Les formes de l'histoire, Essais d'anthropologie politique (Paris, 1978), p. 32.

7. Throughout Book V of Politics, Aristotle analyses conflicts and notes that soci eties live in an unstable equilibrium (stasis). He predicts prudence (phronésis) as a political virtue par excellence.

8. Ricœur uses this idea which he takes from W. Schapp; see Ethique et Respons abilité, p. 20.