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Jon Elster (geb. 1940 in Oslo) gehoert zu den international prominentesten Vertretern der Theorie rationalen Handelns in den Sozialwissenschaften. Er verfasste vor allem wichtige Beitrage zum Problem rationaler Bindungen. Durch…
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Elster’s study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings.
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A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers
France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France’s National Constituent Assembly of…
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An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution
With America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of…
A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France’s National Constituent Assembly of…
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The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than a political theorist. Consistently going beyond exegetical commentary…
Elster proposes a normative theory of collective decision making. The central proposal is that in designing democratic institutions one should reduce the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice and bias on…
In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham’s Political Tactics, this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies.
Jon Elster’s influential study of irrationality subverts orthodox theories of rational choice. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and with a specially commissioned new preface, it has been revived…
The contributions in this volume offer a comprehensive analysis of transitional justice from 1945 to the present. They focus on retribution against the leaders and agents of the autocratic regime…
This book, first published in 1979, is composed of studies in a descending sequence from perfect rationality, through imperfect and problematical rationality, to irrationality. Specifically human rationality is characterized by…
Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life on earth, comparable to that…
A critical examination of the social theories of Karl Marx.
An introduction to Marx’s social, political and economic thought.
This volume contains a selection of Karl Marx’s most important writings. It is designed as a companion to Elster’s An Introduction to Karl Marx and the thematic structure of each…
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 - as a ‘multiple self’…
It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision-making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, that is decision by discussion or deliberation…
This volume advances the research agenda of one of the most remarkable political thinkers of our time: Jon Elster. It features studies in five areas of political and social theory…
Dr Elster analyses the notation of rationality through the study of irrational behaviour, desires and belief.
Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical materialism, classes, politics, and ideology; in a final chapter he assesses ‘what…
Jon Elster (College de France, Paris)
This substantially revised edition of Jon Elster’s acclaimed book exploring the nature of social behavior features a wholly new chapter and a new conclusion. Proposing choice as the central concept…
Jon Elster (Columbia University, New York)
An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The 2004 book describes…
This book is an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences.
The question Jon Elster addresses in this book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable…
This volume of essays considers rational responses to the insufficientcy of reason itself, and to the ‘indeterminacies’ in deploying rational-choice theory, and discusses the irrationality of not seeing when, where…
This textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster’s earlier work.
Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behaviour.
A book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches.
This book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant.
Seeks to bridge 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…
This translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Readers will appreciate The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution for its sense of irony as well…
James Madison wrote, ‘Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob’. The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part…
This book presents the most complete set of analytical, normative, and historical discussions of majority decision making to date. While some chapters discuss formal theories of majority decisions, most focus…
Jon Elster,Aanund Hylland
First published in 1986, this volume of essays offers an examination of the philosophical foundations of social choice theory, in its context as the outgrowth of welfare economics. The essays…
This is a discussion of the problems inherent in constitutional democracy.
The essays in this volume offer a thorough discussion of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This book-length treatment of the subject includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists and…
The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. This book is the first to cover such a…
