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Provocation and responsibility

Abstract: The early centuries of development the 17th century honour, anger, and virtue anger as outrage the rise of loss of self-control justifying mitigation morally other moral aspects of retaliation excusing action in anger anger, mitigation, and gender.

Rethinking Race in Brazil

Abstract: Introduction: the Repudiation of the Centenario13 May 1988 was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. In honour of that date, various official celebrations and commemorations of the centenario, organised by the Brazilian government, church groups and cultural organisations, took place throughout the country, even including a speech by President Jose Sarney.This celebration of the emancipation was not, however, universal. Many Afro—Brazilian groups staged actions and marches, issued denunciations and organised cultural events repudiating the ‘farce of abolition’. These were unprecedented efforts to draw national and international attention to the extensive racial inequality and discrimination which Brazilian blacks – by far the largest concentration of people of African descent in any country in the western hemisphere – continue to confront. Particular interventions had such titles as ‘100 Years of Lies’, ‘One Hundred Years Without Abolition’, ‘March for the Real Liberation of the Race’, ‘Symbolic Burial of the 13th of May’, ‘March in Protest of the Farce of Abolition’, and ‘Discommemoration (Descomemoracāo) of the Centenary of Abolition’.1 The repudiation of the centenario suggests that Brazilian racial dynamics, traditionally quiescent, are emerging with the rest of society from the extended twilight of military dictatorship. Racial conflict and mobilisation, long almost entirely absent from the Brazilian scene, are reappearing. New racial patterns and processes – political, cultural, economic, social and psychological – are emerging, while racial inequalities of course continue as well. How much do we know about race in contemporary Brazil? How effectively does the extensive literature explain the present situation?

The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women: "The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me"

Abstract: Sharing tales of misfortune is a common practice among women in many cultures. Among the Paxtun women of Afghanistan and Pakistan, articulating one's despondency (gham) is part of a ritual which serves to establish and maintain relationships. Moreover, it also qualifies her to be a woman of honour. Grima draws a parallel between this ritual and the infamous male practice of 'honour-killing' which tantamounts to murdering female relatives suspected of illicit relationships.

Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto

Abstract: Iacovetta examines the changes many had to face during the transition from peasant worker in an under-developed, rural economy to wage-earner in an urban, industrial society. Their experiences in Canada, she reveals, were shaped by class, gender, and ethnicity as well as familial responsibilities, government policies, and racism. In addition to conducting numerous interviews, Iacovetta has drawn on recent scholarship in immigration, family, labour studies, oral history, and women's history. Although both women and men struggled and were exploited, Iacovetta shows that they found innovative ways to recreate cherished rituals and customs from their homeland and managed to derive a sense of dignity and honour from the labours they performed.

Rough Music Reconsidered

Abstract: IN 1988 I had the honour to be invited to deliver the Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture to the Folklore Society. It was with some trepidation that I selected a theme to which Katharine Briggs made her own contribution and which has long interested members of this Society, from whose work I have learned a good deal. The present paper corresponds largely, though not entirely, to the lecture given on that occasion (a tape of which is in the Society's Library); it is an abbreviated version of the chapter on 'Rough Music' in my recent book Customs in Common (Merlin Press, 1991).

Who discovered the will

Abstract: Many modern critics regard the concept of the will as an anachronism that ought to be excluded from our account of Greek philosophers. Ross remarks: 'It has often been complained that the psychology of Plato and Aristotle has no distinct conception of the will." Gauthier insists that 'in the psychology of Aristotle the will does not exist'.2 According to Maclntyre, 'Aristotle, like every other ancient pre-Christian author, had no concept of the will and there is no conceptual space in his scheme for such an alien notion in the explanations of defect and error.'3 Different candidates have been proposed for the title of discoverer of the will. Sometimes the introduction of the will into accounts of choice and action is attributed to the Romans.4 Sometimes Augustine is regarded as the pioneer, under Hebraic and Christian influence.5 Sometimes the honour (if that is the right word) goes to Maximus the Confessor.6 A proper discussion of this question requires a wide-ranging historical and philosophical inquiry. It is particularly important to identify and to examine the relevant philosophical issues, if we are to see which questions need to be answered in deciding whether or not a philosopher has a concept or theory of the will.7 I do not intend to survey all the relevant evidence and issues. I will simply pick out some issues that are relevant to one dispute about the will. Those who deny that Greek philosophers have any concept of the will recognize that Greek theories explain choice and action by reference to beliefs and desires. But they argue that the features ascribed to beliefs and desires in these theories fall short of the characteristic features of the will.8 Some Greek theories, and in particular the Socratic and Stoic theories, are intellectualist. According to an intellectualist view, all that affects our choice between doing A and doing B is our belief about whether A or B is, all things

Rethinking radical education : essays in honour of Brian Simon

Abstract: In "Rethinking Radical Education" practitioners, researchers and activists offer a critical assessment of contemporary and historical forms of "radical education". They place the radical tradition in a historical context and reflect on its real strengths and achievements as well as its limitations. The essays focus on many initiatives of the radical movement - feminism, anti-racism, peace education, world studies and environmental studies - and ask what their achievements have been. Of course, there is the recognition that radicalism is not the sole property of the left - much of the New Right's thinking on education is revolutionary. This collection, while honouring the life work of Brian Simon, provides a re-evaluation and reformulation of education as we enter a new political era.

John Donne's Verse Letters to Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford: Rhetorical Means to a Friendship.

Abstract: John Donne’s verse letters to Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford, are more than static hyperbolic praise to a patroness interchangeable with any other patroness. Rather, they are viable and personal means by which Donne creates and sustains a friendship. Through the five verse letters examined in this dissertation, "Reason is the soules left hand," 'You have refin’d mee," 'THave written then," "To the Countesse of Bedford At New-yeares Tide," and "Honour is so sublime perfection," Donne rhetorically demonstrates his understanding of and ability to function within the various contexts of Bedford’s life. Using the accepted view of the epistolary form as a true representation and even extension of an essential self, Donne rhetorically inserts himself into Bedford’s world through the verse letter. Then, empowered as author and "creator" of their relationship within the microcosm of the verse letter, Donne manipulates their relative positions within the letter, drawing Bedford closer to himself within this microcosm, and ideally, in the larger world of court. He demonstrates his ability to function within the Countess’s courtly world by framing his verse letters to the concerns of his patroness’s personal life and court career, utilizing methods expounded by Castiglione in his advice to the courtier. One such concern is the maintenance of the fiction of an idealized court society while dealing with the often sordid realities of court life. Donne explores these contradictory aspects of "being" and "seeming" in the Jacobean court in general and in Bedford’s successful maintenance of her high position within that court. Because the subject of the letters is the growing relationship between Donne and his patroness, as well as the interdependence and relative worth of client and patron(ess) within the complex Jacobean patronage system, the letters serve as metacommunicative links between Donne and Bedford. Their intermediary form mirrors their subject, the necessity of intermediaries for court success. Even after Donne’s relationship with the Countess cooled somewhat as Donne took Holy Orders and gave up his pursuit for courtly success, his search for patronage did not cease, but he continued to seek both secular and spiritual rewards.

Traditional law and irrigation management: the case of Bethma.

Abstract: In Diemer, G.; Slabbers, J. (Eds.) Irrigators and engineers: Essays in honour of Lucas Horst. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Thesis Publishers

Valued Opinions or Opinionated Values: The Double Aggregation Problem (Now published in K. Basu, P. Pattanaik and K. Suzumura (eds.), Choice, Welfare and Development: Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994).)

Abstract: A new and powerful dictatorship result is presented. It is well known that in social choice problems, the negativism of the original Arrow result can be overcome by admitting information based on interpersonal comparisons. But what if individuals in society have different opinions about htese interpersonal comparisons> This paper shows that even in the most favourable circumstances, one individual's opinions must be dictatorial - social choice can be based upon an evaluation of gains and losses to different individuals but must be based upon one individual's opinion about those gains and lossses.

Language and civilization : a concerted profusion of essays and studies in honour of Otto Hietsch

Abstract: Language and Civilization is a collocation in name, and a coalescence, above all, of words and workings in human life. The concept broadly envisions a congress of folks of many tongues and achievements, presenting a motley picture in detail, but a unified whole in humanity. The twin volumes bearing this title offer a vita activa in conspectus. Balances variety has been the guiding principle for contributors to act upon, and their response was cheerfully consentient. One hundred scholars from countries around the globe have sent in original papers; the table of names reads as does an honours list in the fields of modern languages and related studies ...Algeo, Barber, Bolinger, Bourcier, Cannon, Cottle, Finkenstaedt, Gelling, Gneuss, Hamp, Lehmann, Lehnert, Penzl, to mention but a baker's dozen. The work has been brought together in honour of Professor Otto Hietsch, a native of Vienna, who in his time occupied chairs of English and Germanic philology in the universities of Padua, Braunschweig, and Regensburg. He is a certificated interpreter and translator, amd did research or taught in universities as far apart as Paris and Canberra, as Durham and Ann Arbor. Many of the present contributors are his life-long friends, associates in office, or former students; the books written and edited by him foreshadow to a fair measure the articles gathered here for the occasion of his retirement next year.

Strengthening local government in the 1990s

Abstract: This text is based on the Local Government Conference held by INLOGOV in October 1991 in honour of John Stewart. Key figures in local government debate the key issues facing local government practitioners today. In particular the themes of the accountability of local government and its political role are examined, and lessons are drawn for practical use by local authorities. Contributors include Steven Leach, Rod Rhodes, George Jones, Rodney Brooke, Roger Taylor, Michael Clarke and John Stewart.

Themes in development economics : essays in honour of Malcolm Adiseshiah

Abstract: The theoretical essays in the volume include one on formulating a freedom-based notion of rights that could be of immediate relevance in the context of a resource-constrained developing economy. Also included are two papers on issues relating to the implementation of poverty alleviation programs, and one on mechanisms for dealing with the phenomenon of urban employment in a dual economy.

Distance education as two-way communication : essays in honour of Börje Holmberg

Abstract: Contents: Distance education as individual and social interchange - Politics and perspectives - Theory and methodology - Technology and information.

The Influence of the Frankfurt school on contemporary theology : critical theory and the future of religion

Abstract: Critical Theory and the Future of Religion; Dubrovnik Papers in Honour of Rudolf J. Siebert This collection documents an historically significant period in the life of the Inter-University Centre of Postgraduate Studies (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. It covers conversations on the `Future of Religion' during the 15 years from 1977-1991, an extremely important time not only for the IUC, but for Yugoslavia itself. Essays address the nature, role and future of religion in the modern and post-modern and post-modern world.