LOGOCENTRISM- Farewell to the Old Guard by Napoleon Bonaparte

Farewell to the Old Guard

'Soldiers of my Old Guard, I bid you farewell. For 20 years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory.

In these latter times, as in the days of our prosperity, you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity.

With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable; it would have been civil war, and that would have entailed deeper misfortunes on France.

I have sacrificed all of my interests to those of the country.

I go, but you, my friends, will continue to serve France.

Her happiness was my only thought. It will still be the object of my wishes.

Do not regret my fate; if I have consented to survive, it is to serve your glory.

I intend to write the history of the great achievements we have performed together.

Adieu, my friends. Would I could press you all to my heart. I embrace you all in the person of your general. Come, General Petit, that I may press you to my heart!

Bring me, the eagle that I may embrace it also!

Adieu, my children! Be always gallant and good.

Do not forget me.'

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The Theory:

                 Logocentrism refers to the tradition of western science and philosophy that situated the logos, "the word" or the "act of speech" as the epistemologically superior in a system or structure in which we may only know or be present in the world by way of a logocentric metaphysics.

Criticism:

                 Farewell to the Old Guard is a great example of logocentrism using excellent text to persuade the reader or the listener however it turned to the usage of spoken language over the written language. It is a good example of a great oration and clear dialogue. Farewell to the Old Guard uses the power of good verbal communication making use of the words and language to illustrate the subject.