Elster, Jon 1940- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nju Princeton Princeton University Press c2009 2009 monographic eng fre

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79 p. : ill. "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."--BOOK JACKET. Jon Elster ; translated by Steven Rendall. Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-76). Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Practical reason Rational choice theory Philosophy and social sciences BC177 .E4713 2009eb 128/.33 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10442065 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10442065 CaPaEBR 080703 ebr10442065