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This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer, whose
work on a wide range of topics over the past forty years has been
transformative and inspirational. Fischerâs semicompatibilist
view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most
widely discussed view of its kind, and his emphasis on the
significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that
underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside
from free will and moral responsibility, Fischer is also well-known
for his work on freedom and foreknowledge, the problem of evil, the
badness of death, the meaning of life, and the allure of
immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on
some of the major themes of Fischer's work, and it also includes a
new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on
and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing
about moral responsibility. Freedom, Responsibility, and Value will
be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of
issues in metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of religion.
The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and
Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice
in China today as it has evolved from the 'heritage turn' that can
be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches
to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors
to this edited volume show how particular versions of the past are
selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary
purposes. These studies explore how the Chinese state utilises
heritage not only for tourism, entertainment, educational and
commercial purposes, but also as part of broader political
strategies on both the national and international stage. Together,
they argue that the Chinese state deploys modes of heritage
governance to construct new modernities while strengthening
collective national identity in support of both its political
legitimacy and its claim to status as an international superpower.
The authors also consider ways in which state management of
heritage is contested by some stakeholders whose embrace of
heritage has a different purpose and meaning.
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