Reason and Rationality / / Jon Elster.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (96 p.) :; 3 line illus. |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Reason and Rationality -- Works Cited |
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781400833177 9783110442502 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781400833177 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jon Elster. |