Ethics and speech acts: The case of September 11, 2001
Pellegrin-Rescia,
Ethics and speech acts: The case of September 11, 2001 - 2002.
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This article aims to show how representing (seeing, unveiling) a fact (an event), by trying to understand it or to explain it, is ineffective. Instead, considering it as an act of enunciation or shaping of the world allows us to consider the radical changes that this act brings—provided, we say, we do not take it for a “fact.” The use of certain signifiers, such as “terrorist” among others, used in different contexts—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and above all the events of September 11, 2001—constitutes a significant demonstration of this claim.
Ethics and speech acts: The case of September 11, 2001 - 2002.
53
This article aims to show how representing (seeing, unveiling) a fact (an event), by trying to understand it or to explain it, is ineffective. Instead, considering it as an act of enunciation or shaping of the world allows us to consider the radical changes that this act brings—provided, we say, we do not take it for a “fact.” The use of certain signifiers, such as “terrorist” among others, used in different contexts—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and above all the events of September 11, 2001—constitutes a significant demonstration of this claim.
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