Two Pages from the Culture of the Double Speech and of Tacit Suppositions
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https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v11i2.215Keywords:
double speech, tacit suppositions, Erasmus, Mandeville, present political discourseAbstract
The power relations – at the time of Erasmus and Mandeville, and also in present – make the critique of the status quo to be very difficult. An answer to this situation was and is the complex of the double speech and tacit political suppositions. The paper suggests some similarities between the texts of the above-mentioned thinkers and, on the other hand, the present mainstream political jargon, by emphasising rather the differences: it is noteworthy that Mandeville and Erasmus had a strong, while indirect through their humoristic use of the double speech, critique of the state of things described by them.
The conclusions developed here concern the tacit suppositions in the political discourse and how the two items are perennial within the modern culture.
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