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This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality. The collection features an international cast of authors who specialize in the topic of sincerity in politics and international relations. Each chapter will be focused 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, denial and self-deception, and will argue against the background of a Kantian view of sincerity as unconditional. Focusing on sincerity bearing on political actions, practices, and institutions at national and international level, the collection will include an introduction by the editors that will serve to place the contributions in the context of ongoing contemporary debates on sincerity in politics and international theory. Offering a significant comprehensive outlook on the practical limits of sincerity in political affairs, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.
List of contents
Introduction Part 1: Publicity 1. Political Deception: Lowering the Bar 2. The Role of Public Reason's Principle of Sincerity 3. Speaking on Morality's Behalf: When One Should Be Silent and Why 4. What Can We Learn About Political Corruption From Kant's Conceptions of Honesty, Publicity and Truthfulness? Part 2: Rhetoric 5. The Political Rhetoric of Administrative Ethics: Obama VS. the Cynics 6. A Kantian Rhetoric of Sincerity: Politics, Truth and Truthfulness 7. Making Sense: The Possibility of Truthfulness In Politics 8. On Doubt and Otherness: Deconstructing Power and Dissent Part 3: Institutions 9. Political Dissimulation a la Kant: Two Limits of the Sincerity Requirement 10. Pretending Peace: Provisional Political Trust and Sinceriy in Kant and Amery 11. Governing by Trust: Sincerity as a Procedural Fairness Norm 12. Truth-Telling and Right-Speaking in European Integration Politics: From Theory to Practice and Back
About the author
Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University, UK. Apart from articles and chapters, he authored Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011), and edited and co-edited several collections.
Sylvie Loriaux is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Laval University, Canada. She contributed articles to various journals, including Moral Philosophy and Politics and the European Journal of Political Theory.
Summary
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.
