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my colleagues and myself that in the present political and social climate, occasions for
ideological critique are pressed upon our lives daily. (1987: 1)
Why did I take a critical turn? Because I was unhappy with the dangerous state of
affairs created by the cold war, and the build-up of nuclear weapons in Europe, in the
1980s. I felt there was a real danger that established ways of talking about war, conflict
and arms control could lead to global destruction. Of Course, I did not think that simple
scholars writing articles on discourse could stop all this, but I did and do think that talk and
text are the fundamental to everything that human societies do, so it is essential to at least
try to understand it.
** Por qu di un giro critico? Porque era infeliz a causa del peligroso estado de
las cosas que fue ocasionado por la guerra fra, y la creacin de armas nucleares en
Europa, en los 80. Sent que haba un gran peligro que estableci maneras de hablar
sobre la guerra, el conflicto y el control de armas podra dirigirnos a una destruccin
mundial. Por supuesto, no pens que los simples artculos escritos por intelectuales sobre
el discurso podran parar todo esto, pero lo hice y pens que hablar y escribir eran lo
esencial para todo aquello que las sociedades humanas hacan, por lo que es
fundamental al menos intentar de comprenderlo.