Libros de Jon Elster

Alexis De Tocqueville, The First Social Scientist

Reason And Rationality

• One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on..

Getting Hooked

• 300 páginas
• The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists,...

Closing The Books

• After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at..

Rationale Argumentation

• 371 páginas
• Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Rationale Argumentation" verfügbar.

Closing The Books

• After a change of political system, notably a transition from an autocratic to a democratic, or at..

Strong Feelings

• 266 páginas
• Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely...

Ulysses Unbound

• This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their..

Getting Hooked

• The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the..

Alchemies Of The Mind

Constitucionalismo Y Democracia

• 381 páginas
• Jon Elster, profesor de ciencia política y filosofía en la Universidad de Chicago, y Rune Slagstad, editor en jefe de la Norwegian University Press, reúnen aquí una serie de trabajos propios y de otros autores en torno a tres...

Alchemies Of The Mind

• 450 páginas
• Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emoti...

Deliberative Democracy

• 282 páginas
• It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic...

Institutional Design In Post-communist Societies

• 350 páginas
• The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elab...

Deliberative Democracy

• It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The..

Political Psychology

• 216 páginas
• This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social...

Political Psychology

• 204 páginas
• This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social...

The Cement Of Society

Solomonic Judgements

• 232 páginas
• This volume of essays is very much a sequel to the two earlier collections by Jon Elster, Ulysses and the Sirens and Sour Grapes. His topic is rationality--its scope, its limitations, and its failures. Elster considers rational responses to the insufficie...

Nuts And Bolts For The Social Sciences

• 184 páginas
• This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers a tool box of mechanisms--nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels--that can be used to explain complex social phenomena....