Reason and Rationality, Jon Elster
Reason and Rationality, Jon Elster
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Reason and Rationality

Author: Jon Elster

Narrator: John Lescault

Unabridged: 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2010


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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luke on June 07, 2021

Terrific (if slight) exploration of the many paradoxes inherent in both ‘reason’ and ‘rationality’. Can’t wait to dig into Elster’s larger texts.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on November 14, 2022

To get the most out of this book, you really need to insert what rational choice theory is and it’s influence on so much scholarship. With that knowledge, this is a nice short and sensible critique of rationality as framed in much research, and why it doesn’t align with the ways in which humans actu......more

Goodreads review by Scott on December 28, 2011

An excellent summation what is at issue in many of life's inherent problems.......more

Goodreads review by Ava on December 03, 2012

Waiter, this dish is awful, and the portions are too small.......more

Goodreads review by Paideia on April 11, 2024

En su último párrafo, se resume el libro. "¿Cuáles son, en definitiva, las funciones de la razón y de la racionalidad en los comportamientos humanos? Son las funciones del preceptor y del consejero del príncipe, respectivamente. El preceptor le enseña al príncipe a promover el bien público a largo pl......more