Erik Doxtader

Biographic Data

ID3586129
NAMEErik Doxtader
GIVEN NAMESErik
FAMILY NAMEDoxtader
SIGNATUREDOXTADER E
AFFILIATIONSRestorix Health
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • What cannot be said

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLEPhilosophy and Rhetoric2022

    What cannot be said? The question presses, as there are no words, or no fitting words, or no words that make sense let alone do justice, all perhaps in the face of demands (not) to speak. And, as voice collapses in the midst of the violence that confounds reference, degrades language, imposes silence, and enforces repression—what cannot be said may turn on privation, the grounds, incentives, and intentions of expression that are banished, disappe…

  • With Double-Binds to Spare

    Erik DoxtaderCHAPTERRoutledge Companion to Literature…2018

    Rhetoric has no proper role to play in the creation, advocacy, and protection of human rights. In the name of law, it must be made clear that the integrity, validity, and force of human rights can neither depend on nor devolve to the word. Three double-binds: the gift of speech defines the human at the risk of subjecting being to itself; in the midst and aftermath of inhumanity, the speaking being is not a given; as spoken, humanity&s;s right rep…

  • The Rhetorical Question of Human Rights—A Preface

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech2010

    Does rhetoric have a place in the discourse of human rights? Without certain reply, as the dilemmas of defining, claiming, and promoting human rights appear both to include and exclude the rhetorical gesture, this question invites inquiry into the preface of the contemporary human rights regime, the moment of the aftermath that provokes a struggle with language. Grasped partly through Richard McKeon's extended thought on human rights and conflict…

  • The [Rhetorical] Question of Exception, for Now

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLECommunication and Critical/Cultural…2008

  • La réconciliation avant la réconciliation

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLELe Genre humain2004

  • The Provocations of Amnesty

    Open AccessA Verdoolaege, Charles Villa-Vicencio et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2004Cited by: 14

    Prosecutions, amnesty and nation-building: Debating the questions of amnesty - a symposium convened in Cape Town, 4 October 2001 introductory remarks why prosecutions are necessary the Case for a general amnesty prosecutorial discretion four sayings and a denouement responding to the symposium - the legacy of the TRC Dumisa ntsebeza - revisiting the TRC's assumptions about racial healing. Can amnesty be reconciled with justice? restorative justic…

  • Reconciliation—a rhetorical concept/ion

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech2003Cited by: 4

    What is reconciliation? A source of historical puzzlement and contemporary controversy over how to make history, this question asks after those words which constitute a beginning (again), that moment in which endless cycles of conflict give way to the hope for "unity in difference." Concerned with the dynamics of its operation, the present essay contends that reconciliation is a rhetorical concept, a performance and norm of rhetorical practice th…

  • Reconciliation in A State of Emergency

    Open AccessErik DoxtaderARTICLEJournal for the Study of Religion2001

  • Loving History's Fate, Perverting the Beautiful Soul

    Erik DoxtaderARTICLECultural Studies2001

    This essay is addressed to several facets of the relationship between human eroticism and law. Tracing Luce Irigaray's notion of love (to) through the sense of recognition that appears in Hegel's discussion of confession, it argues that the middle voice of love expresses and performs an interest in both intersubjective understanding and open-ended play. Against the law, the felicity of love (to) marks the potential to make history and constitute …