Author: Dana Kay Nelkin File Type: pdf This edited volume of new essays explores the principles that govern moral responsibility and legal liability for omissive conduct--behavior that did not occur. Many contributors here try to make sense of the possibility of moral responsibility for omissions, including those that occur unwittingly. The disagreements among them concern the grounds of moral responsibility in these cases the constellation of states and traits that constitute the self, or the quality of ones will, or exercises of evaluative judgment, or the ability and opportunity to avoid the omission, or the tracing back to a time when one had the witting ability to take steps to avoid future omission. Some contributors consider whether omissions need to be under ones control if one is to be morally responsible for them, as well as which sense of control is relevant, if it is, to the question of moral responsibility. Yet others consider whether it is possible for an agent to be morally responsible for an omission that she could not have avoided. On the legal side, contributors also consider various issues concerning the status of omissions in the law whether circumstances that are usually described as involving legal liability for omissions are better described as involving legal liability for entire courses of conduct the conditions (such as creation of the peril) under which one can be legally liable for an omission to rescue why a defendants legal guilt for a crime can be predicated on an omission to act only if the defendant was under a legal duty to engage in the omitted act and whether this duty requirement is grounded in the desirability of shielding from legal liability those who are not criminally culpable or in the constraint that ones body and property may not be appropriated for the general good. Included with the essays is an introduction to the topic by the volume editors. The book will be of interest to moral philosophers, philosophers of law, and other legal scholars. **

Author: Marie Louise Seeberg File Type: pdf The ways in which memories of the Holocaust have been communicated, represented and used have changed dramatically over the years. From such memories being neglected and silenced in most of Europe until the 1970s, each country has subsequently gone through a process of cultural, political and pedagogical awareness-rising. This culminated in the Stockholm conference on Holocaust commemoration in 2000, which resulted in the constitution of a task force dedicated to transmitting and teaching knowledge and awareness about the Holocaust on a global scale. The silence surrounding private memories of the Holocaust has also been challenged in many families.What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find, at which point in time and from which past and present positions related to their societies and to the phenomenon in question? This book highlights the contexts in which such questions are asked. By introducing the concept of active memory, this book contributes to recent developments in memory studies, where memory is increasingly viewed not in isolation but as a dynamic and relational part of human lives.**

Author: Houri Berberian File Type: pdf Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian revolutionariesminorities in all of these empireswhose movements and participation within and across frontiers tell us a great deal about the global transformations that were taking shape. Exploring the geographical and ideological boundary crossings that occurred, Houri Berberians archivally grounded analysis of the circulation of revolutionaries, ideas, and print tells the story of peoples and ideologies in upheaval and collaborating with each other, and in so doing it illuminates our understanding of revolutions and movements.Reviews A refreshingly innovative work. Drawing on untapped and largely unknown resources, it analyzes hitherto overlooked interconnections between three revolutions with erudition and panache.bHouchang Chehabi, author of Distant Relations Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Yearsb Houri Berberians Roving Revolutionaries is as cosmopolitan and wide-ranging as its subject the Armenian activists who criss-crossed Europe and the Middle East in the early twentieth century. The book barges across borders just as they did, tracking the steamships and railways they rode, the newspapers and weapons they carried, and the impact their networks and ideas had on uprisings in Russia, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire.Charles Kurzman, author of Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy Groundbreaking and theoretically sophisticated, this is a major contribution to global history and studies of revolution. Shattering the walls of insular history, Berberian puts the roving Armenian revolutionaries in their local, regional, global, and intellectual contexts.bBedross Der Matossian, author of Shattered Dreams of Revolution From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empireb

Author: John Haldon File Type: pdf First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Byzantium survived for 800 years, yet its dominions and power fluctuated dramatically during that time. John Haldon tells the story from the days when the Empire was barely clinging on to survival, to the age when its fabulous wealth attracted Viking mercenaries and Asian nomad warriors to its armies, their very appearance on the field enough to bring enemies to terms. In 1453 the last emperor of Byzantium, Constantine XII, died fighting on the ramparts, bringing to a romantic end the glorious history of this legendary empire. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.