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Keim reviews 'Living Ethically, Acting Politically' by Melissa A. Orlie.

AbstractPeople walk, build, paint and otherwise act together with a purpose in myriad ways. What is the relation between the actions people perform in acting together with a purpose and the outcome, or outcomes, to which their actions are directed? We argue that fully characterising this relation will require appeal not only to intention, knowledge and other familiar philosophical paraphernalia but also to another kind of representation involved in preparing and executing actions, namely motor representation. If we are right, motor representation plays a central role in the story of acting together.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. The Contemporary Imagination of Power -- Introduction -- 1. Makings, Trespasses, and Ordinary Evil -- 2. Subject-Citizens and Corporeal Souls -- 3. Recovering Political Enthusiasm for Invisible Powers -- II. A Genealogy of the Modern Subject-Citizen -- Introduction -- 4. The Politics of Conscience -- 5. Hobbes's America -- III. Living Ethically, Acting Politically -- Introduction -- 6. Seeking the Limits of Our Selves -- 7. A Political Ethos of Conscience -- Notes -- Index

Must we ascribe hope for better times to those who (take themselves to) act morally? Kant and later theorists in the Frankfurt School tradition thought we must. In this article, I disclose that it is possible – and ethical – to refrain from ascribing hope in all such cases. I draw on two key examples of acting irrespective of hope: one from a recent political context and one from the life of Jean Améry. I also suggest that, once we see that it is possible to make sense of (what I call) 'merely expressive acts', we can also see that the early Frankfurt School was not guilty of a performative contradiction in seeking to enlighten Enlightenment about its (self-)destructive tendencies, while rejecting the (providential) idea of progress.

The Bush administration's concept of international "leadership" is, in foreign-policy circles, fairly conventional. Leadership means acting, and telling others how to act; it means taking the lead, sometimes alone, and recognising that others will come along once the course seems inevitable. Yet this particular concept contradicts every other theory of leadership in existence. Business-management literature can shed light on relations among states, for the best of this writing on leadership speaks to human nature. In a world where a nascent coalition of like-minded democracies is looking more and more like a true international community, states that aspire to global leadership will, increasingly, need to build consensus on the basis of a shared vision. Ihis perspective strongly reinforces the call for greater multilateralism in US foreign policy. (Survival / SWP)

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