The Rhetorical Question of Human Rights—A Preface
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14451303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Doxtader (Restorix Health, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 353-379 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630.2010.521170 |
| OpenAlex | W2066510874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
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 resolution, including his collaboration with a committee of philosophers charged by UNESCO to assess the grounds for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this preface opens the work of discovery, an inquiry that recognizes how the hypocrisy of “acting words” constitutes a potential for expression which beckons being toward its human rights
Declaration · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human rights · Hypocrisy · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |