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Author: Ernst van Alphen Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804758271 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 353
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The essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and disciplines, including law and the arts.
Author: Ernst van Alphen Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804758271 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
The essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and disciplines, including law and the arts.
Author: Ernst van Alphen Publisher: ISBN: 9781503627017 Category : PHILOSOPHY Languages : en Pages : 352
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In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations in representational idioms and media. The Rhetoric of Sincerity is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different media and disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity, its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or failure of such performances.
Author: Elizabeth Markovits Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271046112 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 246
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A growing frustration with “spin doctors,” doublespeak, and outright lying by public officials has resulted in a deep public cynicism regarding politics today. It has also led many voters to seek out politicians who engage in “straight talk,” out of a hope that sincerity signifies a dedication to the truth. While this is an understandable reaction to the degradation of public discourse inflicted by political hype, Elizabeth Markovits argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements. Her argument takes her back to an examination of the Greek notion of parrhesia (frank speech), and she draws from her study of the Platonic dialogues a nuanced understanding of this ancient analogue of “straight talk.” She shows Plato to have an appreciation for rhetoric rather than a desire to purge it from public life, providing insights into the ways it can contribute to a fruitful form of deliberative democracy today.
Author: Ellen Rutten Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300213980 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Sincerity, Memory, Marketing, Media -- 1 History: Situating Sincerity -- 2 "But I Want Sincerity So Badly!" The Perestroika Years and Onward -- 3 "I Cried Twice": Sincerity and Life in a Post-Communist World -- 4 "So New Sincerity": New Century, New Media -- Conclusion: Sincerity Dreams -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author: Suzanne Manon Gregoire Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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What does it mean to be true to oneself? This dissertation historicizes the question by examining how the epistemological and literary works of Francis Bacon, John Milton, and René Descartes negotiate the relationship between truth and self through the novel concept of "sincerity." The modern fascination with this ideal has its origins in the well-worn Shakespearean adage, "this above all: to thine own self be true," but we often forget the original motivation to be sincere so that "thou canst not then be false to any man." In contrast to the individualism of contemporary "authenticity" culture, in the early modern period being true to oneself was not yet a worthy end in its own right, but a means of being true to others. I examine how and why these authors' public arguments for new scientific, political, and philosophical epistemologies are staged in a surprisingly subjective voice. I argue that in the process of developing new ways of knowing they deploy a rhetoric of sincerity that draws on their culture's social understanding of identity, but that anticipates and makes possible the premises of modern authenticity. Following the Introduction's discussion of the historical emergence of sincerity, Chapter One considers Bacon's subjective presentation of his theories for an objective empiricism, and argues that he stages his own suffering as a form of identity for the new science. Chapter Two examines Milton's revolutionary political prose, analyzing in particular his appeal to seventeenth-century discourses of zeal, and his presentation of his anger as a model of political enfranchisement. Chapter Three considers the Discourse on the Method as a paradoxically anonymous autobiography, and reveals how Descartes frankly presents his own story as a philosophical liberation that is freely available to his reader. In each case, the candour and conviction of the writer exemplifies, is perhaps even constitutive of, the method described. These authors' arguments for epistemology appeal to a social rhetoric of sincerity, even as their theories lay the groundwork for the authenticity to come. They provide an important corrective to our understanding of early modern identity, and the origins of our own sense of self.
Author: Michael Gluck Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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An awareness of sincerity as rhetorical or performative language flourished in postmodernist literature and late Soviet underground art, creating a mode that was self-conscious of the impossibility of essential sincerity while still seeking a way to be sincere.
Author: Sorin Baiasu Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1134489811 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 221
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This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. The volume features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Looking at how sincerity bears on political actions, practices, and institutions at national and international level, the introduction serves to place the chapters in the context of ongoing contemporary debates on sincerity in politics and international theory. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary issue in politics and international relations, including corruption, public hypocrisy, cynicism, trust, security, policy formulation and decision-making, political apology, public reason, political dissimulation, denial and self-deception, and will argue against the background of a Kantian view of sincerity as unconditional. Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits of sincerity in political affairs, this work will be of great interest to both students and scholars.
Author: Susan B. Rosenbaum Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813926100 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 308
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Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.
Author: Sorin Baiasu Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134489889 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 375
Book Description
This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. The volume features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Looking at how sincerity bears on political actions, practices, and institutions at national and international level, the introduction serves to place the chapters in the context of ongoing contemporary debates on sincerity in politics and international theory. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary issue in politics and international relations, including corruption, public hypocrisy, cynicism, trust, security, policy formulation and decision-making, political apology, public reason, political dissimulation, denial and self-deception, and will argue against the background of a Kantian view of sincerity as unconditional. Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits of sincerity in political affairs, this work will be of great interest to both students and scholars.
Author: Ernst van Alphen
Author: Ernst van Alphen
Author: Ernst van Alphen
Author: David Lee Bisset
Author: Elizabeth Markovits
Author: Ellen Rutten
Author: Suzanne Manon Gregoire
Author: Michael Gluck
Author: Sorin Baiasu
Author: Susan B. Rosenbaum
Author: Sorin Baiasu