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Reason and Rationality
Author: Jon Elster
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Published: 07/15/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Movements
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 audiobook, 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.
