Reason and Rationality

Zusatztext "I highly recommend the book, which explains in clear and simple terms the complexity of human behavior and the logic that underlies it." ---Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, European Legacy Informationen zum Autor Jon Elster holds the Chaire de Rationalité et Sciences Sociales at the Collège de France. Among his recent books are Explaining Social Behavior and Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Seeks to bridge 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. This book proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elster, Jon Elster, Jon/ Rendall Elster, Elster Jon
• Mitarbeit: Steven Rendall (Übersetzung), Rendall Steven (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.02.2009
• EAN: 9780691139005
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13900-5
• Seiten: 88
• Abmessung: 105 mm x 160 mm x 14 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy