Reason and Rationality

Jon Elster

ISBN 10: 0691139008 / ISBN 13: 9780691139005

Published by Princeton University Press, USA, 2009

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Small hardback. 16x10.5cm. 79 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-IVR.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reason and Rationality
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691139008
• ISBN 13: 9780691139005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.