Sincerity as subjectivity effect -- "Why do you tear me from Myself?" : torture, truth, and the arts of the Counter-Reformation / Jane Taylor -- Melody and monotone : performing sincerity in republican France / Katherine Bergeron -- The irreconcilability of hypocrisy and sincerity / Frans-Willem Korsten -- The rhetoric of justification : the preponderance of decisions over rules / Carel Smith -- Must we (NOT) mean what we say? : seriousness and sincerity in the work of J.L. Austin and Stanley Cavell / Hent de Vries -- Declining sincerity -- Can the subaltern confess? : Pasolini, Gramsci, Foucault, and the deployment of sexuality / Cesare Casarino -- Like a dog : narrative and confession in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace and The lives of animals / Yasco Horsman -- Putting sincerity to work : acquiescence and refusal in postfordist art / David McNeill -- When sincerity fails : literatures of migration and the emblematic labor of personhood / Leslie A. Adelson -- Sincerity as a media effect -- A feeling of insincerity : politics, ventriloquy, and the dialectics of gesture in mediality / Jill Bennet -- Derrida on film : staging spectral sincerity / Michael Bachmann -- Documenting September 11th : trauma and the (im)possibility of sincerity / Alison Young -- Being Angela Merkel / Maaike Bleeker -- "Saying everything" and affected self-disclosure in the works of Reinaldo Arenas and Hervé Guibert / Reindert Dhondt
