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What is an action, and what is an omission? Are actions natural phenomena, or rather a product of our vision of the world? What is the difference between an action and a mere bodily movement? Can actions be counted? What is the role of intention for the identification of actions? Can we make mistakes in identifying our own actions? Under what conditions is it possible to impute a non-intentional action to someone? This book suggests answers, or at least presents conceptual tools for finding answers, to these and other, related questions. The author displays a sovereign command and profound understanding of the complex theoretical issues involved and offers an original approach to the analysis of action. The book is written in a very accessible style and is of interest to lawyers, legal scientists and philosophers. It will be of specific interest to specialists of action theory and non-specialists who wish to learn more about some of the principal philosophical and legal conceptions of action and the analysis of their structures

pt. I. Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences. Study 1. The Psychic Structural Nexus. I. Task, Method, and Outline of the Foundation. II. Descriptive Preliminary Concepts. Study 2. The Structural Nexus of Knowledge. I. Objective Apprehension. II. Objective Having. Study 3. The Delimitation of the Human Sciences (Third Draft) -- pt. II. The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. I. Delimitation of the Human Sciences. II. Different Modes of Formation in the Natural Sciences and in the Human Sciences. III. General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences -- pt. III. Plan for the Continuation of the Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences -- Drafts for a Critique of Historical Reason -- App. I. Supplements to the Studies on the Foundation of the Human Sciences -- App. II. Additions to the Formation of the Historical World.

Signs of War and Peace focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick's Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts, and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London. The book is about the nature of public display, its relationships to class-based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways the former are intimately intertwined with the latter, both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere throughout the world. The work is interdisciplinary, combining ethnographic, anthropological, folkloristic, and performance studies approaches. The manuscript benefits from large amount of field work in Ireland, and as a result contains both ethnographic data and revealing interviews with many people in Northern Ireland who have participated in the display events Santino seeks to analyze. The perspective that Santino offers helps to explain the intensity of the conflict as well as the origination, motivations, and justifications of bonfires, murals, commemorative displays, parades, etc. that symbolically articulate what he terms the 'dual master narratives' that underlie and in many ways help to articulate the parameters of that conflict