Paul Sailer-Wlasits

Paul Sailer-Wlasits (born April 24, 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian philosopher and political scientist .

Life

Sailer-Wlasits studied philosophy, political science , theater studies and economics in Vienna. Parallel to his accompanying economic studies, he completed a humanities double degree in political and theater studies (Mag. Phil.) And philosophy with a focus on the philosophy of language (Dr. phil.) At the University of Vienna. He is the author of several linguistic and philosophical-historical monographs, numerous political essays and theater reviews as well as the author of texts on aesthetics and contemporary visual arts.

For more than 20 years he has been researching language-philosophical phenomena in the context of language and violence, hate speech and verbal radicalism as well as linguistic aspects of populism . In numerous publications he devotes himself to the critical examination of rhetoric, metaphor and language in politics. His research on the history of language and violence, which he began in 2001, culminated in his book Verbalradikalismus , published in 2012 . Critical intellectual history of a socio-political-linguistic-philosophical phenomenon .

research

His main research areas are:

Works (selection)

Monographs

Impropriety. Philosophical visits between metaphor, testimony and truth-speaking. An essay . Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann) 2020, ISBN 978-3826067334
Minimal morale. Policies on politics, society and language . Vienna (new academic press) 2016, ISBN 978-3700319603
Verbal radicalism: critical intellectual history of a socio-political-linguistic-philosophical phenomenon . Vienna-Klosterneuburg (Edition Va Bene) 2012, ISBN 978-3851672688
Hermeneutics of Myth. Philosophy of Mythology between Lógos and Léxis . Vienna-Klosterneuburg (Edition Va Bene) 2007, ISBN 978-3851671902
The back of the language. Philosophy of metaphor . Vienna-Klosterneuburg (Edition Va Bene) 2003, ISBN 978-3851671445

Editing

Contemporary witness at the crossroads. Autobiographical Confessions . Vienna (Holzhausen Verlag) 2003, ISBN 978-3854930754
1927 - When the republic burned. From Schattendorf to Vienna . Vienna-Klosterneuburg (Edition Va Bene) 2002, ISBN 978-3851671285

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Sailer-Wlasits in the catalog of the German National Library
Official website
Hate Speech: The Metastases of Hate , Zeit Online, December 31, 2019
What is “hybrid populism”? , The European, May 15, 2017
Hate speech. On the history of language as a means of violence , ORF, Ö1, Subject: History, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2016
Test of election campaign phrases , interview on the subject of language in politics, ORF Science, May 20, 2016
Delaying and Deceiving - The History of Truth and Lies in Politics , ORF, Ö1, Subject: History, 22. – 26. Jun. 2015
Polluted language, polluted thinking , Der Standard, Apr. 24, 2015
Between word and deed - taking stock of language and violence , ORF Science, Jan. 15, 2015
Misuse of Words: New, Old Language of Hate , Die Presse, Aug. 2, 2014
Politicians radicalize our language , interview on verbal radicalism, Salzburger Nachrichten, Jan. 18, 2013
When language becomes violence , Wiener Zeitung, Oct. 24, 2008

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Sailer-Wlasits, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Review of Hermeneutics of Myth. Philosophy of Mythology between Lógos and Léxis , by Thomas G. Casey SJ, pp. 905-906. Gregorianum 2008, n.89/4

[2] Review on Hermeneutics of Myth , by Norbert Leser, Wiener Zeitung, April 18, 2008

[3] Sound document From Word to Action - On the History of Political Verbal Radicalism , ORF, Ö1, Subject: History, 12.-16. Nov 2007

[4] Die Wegbereiter right Herren , Der Standard, April 17, 2018

[5] Toxicity - or the language of the “worried” , Telepolis, September 6th, 2018

[6] Verbal radicalism: Critical intellectual history of a socio-political-linguistic-philosophical phenomenon . Vienna-Klosterneuburg (Edition Va Bene) 2012, ISBN 978-3-85167-268-8