Volume 29, Number 1 / February 2001

From the Editor
Stephen K. White
3

Not Your Father’s Rational Actor Theorist
Hobbes, Romance, and the Contract of Mimesis
Victoria Kahn
4
Faking It: Hobbes’s Thinking-Bodies and the Ethics of Dissimulation
Samantha Frost
30
Historical Rights: The Evaluation of Nationalist Claims to Sovereignty
Chaim Gans
58

CRITICAL EXCHANGE
The Enlightenment Project: A Reply to Schmidt
Christian Delacampagne
80
Projects and Projections: A Response to Christian Delacampagne
James Schmidt
86

REVIEW ESSAYS
Interpretive Practices and Political Designs:
Reading Authenticity, Integrity, and Reform in Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Morgenstern, Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity:
Self, Culture, and Society

Grant, Hypocrisy and Integrity:
Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics

Fermon, Domesticating Passions:
Rousseau, Woman, and Nation

Elizabeth Wingrove
91
Four Books on Rousseau (and Another for Good Measure)
Cooper, Rousseau, Nature and the Problem of the Good Life
Johnston, Encountering Tragedy:
Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order
Ogrodnick, Instinct and Intimacy:
Political Philosophy and Autobiography in Rousseau
O’Hagan, Rousseau
Ball, Rousseau’s Ghost, A Novel
Paul Thomas
112
Reconstructing the Generous Public
Coles, Rethinking Generosity:
Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas
Orlie, Living Ethically, Acting Politically
Spelman, Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering
Marion Smiley

127
Review Essay on Hoopes and Festenstein
Hoopes, Community Denied:
The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism
Festenstein, Pragmatism and Political Theory
Joshua I. Miller

145
Calls for Papers 149