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Reason and Rationality

By Jon Elster

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0691139008, 9780691139005
LCC
BC177 .E4713 2009
Google Books ID
yukCqdYRaKUC
Open Library ID
OL16974550M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
259 kB (265665 bytes)
Pages
88\88
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a wealth of historical and contemporary illustrations, Reason and Rationality marks a new development in Elster's thinking while at the same time providing a brief, elegant, and accessible introduction to his work.

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