Alchemies of the Mind
Rationality and the Emotions
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- Author: Jon Elster, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: January 1999
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- isbn: 9780521642798
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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 emotions in human behavior. Combining methodological and theoretical arguments with empirical case studies and written with Elster's customary verve and economy, this book will have a broad appeal to those in philosophy, psychology, economics, political science, as well as literary studies, history, and sociology.
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- Genuine interdisciplinary appeal - philosophy, psychology, economics, political science
- Hot topic - good deal of work on the emotions at the moment
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"The book should have a broad appeal within the humanties as well as the social sciences. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."
--ChoiceSee more reviews"In this polished work the author, a highly respected political philosopher from Columbia University...reaches for a broad theory of the role of the emotions in human behavior."
--Virginia Quarterly Review"Jon Elster has written an important and useful book on human emotions and the social sciences...his book a useful source for anyone working in the area."
--Jrnl of Economic Behavior and Organization"This is perhaps the richest book on emotions I have read."
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- Date Published: January 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521642798
- length: 464 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.795kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgments
Part I. A Plea for Mechanisms:
1. Introduction
2. Explaining by mechanisms
3. Proverbial mechanisms
4. Mechanisms in Montaigne
5. Mechanisms in Tocqueville
6. Some elementary mechanisms
7. Molecular mechanisms
8. From mechanisms to laws
9. A plea for disaggregation
Part II. Emotions before Psychology:
1. Introduction
2. Aristotle on the emotions
3. The French moralists
4. Emotion in literature
Part III. Social Emotions in Historical Context:
1. Introduction
2. Shame and social norms
3. Envy in social life
4. Honor, duels, and feuds
Part IV. Rationality and the Emotions:
1. Introduction
2. The nature of emotion
3. Rationality and the emotions
Appendix
Part V. Alchemies of the Mind:
1. Introduction
2. Transmutation
3. Misrepresentation
Coda.
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