Overview :One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in polit... Read More
Overview :This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are three... Read More
Overview :The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists... Read More
Overview :The essays in this volume consider the question of whether the self is a unity or whether it should be conceived without metaphor as divided... Read More
Overview :Notions of justice and fairness are central to the American belief that the pursuit of a healthy and productive life is the right of all cit... Read More
Overview :The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality.... Read More
Overview :It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alte... Read More
Overview :The question addressed in this challenging new book is: What binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and w... Read More
Overview :In this volume a diverse group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists address the problems, principles, and pr... Read More
Overview :This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers... Read More
Overview :This book was first published in 1984, as the revised edition of a 1979 original. The text is composed of studies in a descending sequence f... Read More
Overview :A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the histor... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Dr... Read More
Overview :A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in t... Read More
Overview :This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx's most important writings, organized thematically under eight headings: methodology, alienatio... Read More
Overview :A systematic, critical examination of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. Through extensive discussions of ... Read More