Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I SINCERITY AS SUBJECTIVITY EFFECT
6. 1 "Why do you tear me from Myself?": Torture, Truth, and the Arts of the Counter-Reformation 19
7. 2 Melody and Monotone: Performing Sincerity in Republican France 44
8. 3 The Irreconcilability of Hypocrisy and Sincerity 60
9. 4 The Rhetoric of Justification: The Preponderance of Decisions over Rules 78
10. 5 Must We (NOT) Mean What We Say? Seriousness and Sincerity in the Work of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell 90
11. PART II DECLINING SINCERITY
12. 6 Can the Subaltern Confess? Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the Deployment of Sexuality 121
13. 7 Like a Dog: Narrative and Confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The Lives of Animals 144
14. 8 Putting Sincerity to Work: Acquiescence and Refusal in Post-Fordist Art 157
15. 9 When Sincerity Fails: Literatures of Migration and the Emblematic Labor of Personhood 174
16. PART III SINCERITY AS MEDIA EFFECT
17. 10 A Feeling of lnsincerity: Politics, Ventriloquy, and the Dialectics of Gesture 195
18. 11 Derrida on Film: Staging Spectral Sincerity 214
19. 12 Documenting September II: Trauma and the (Im)possibility of Sincerity 230
20. 13 Being Angela Merkel 247
21. 14 Saying Everything and Affected Self-Disclosure in the Works of Reinaldo Arenas and Hervé Guibert 263
22. Notes 283
23. Bibliography 305
24. Index 323