Alchemies of the Mind Rationality and the Emotions

Name: Alchemies of the Mind Rationality and the Emotions
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ISBN: 9780521644877

ISBN-10: 0521644879

ISBN-13: 9780521644877

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jon. Elster

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Jon Elster argues that whilst neurophysiology and laboratory experiments can provide much information when studying the emotions, one should also learn from the great writers and thinkers of the past.

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalitï¿½ et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective .



Preface and acknowledgments



A Plea for Mechanisms



Introduction



Explaining by mechanisms



Proverbial mechanisms



Mechanisms in Montaigne



Mechanisms in Tocqueville



Some elementary mechanisms



Molecular mechanisms



From mechanisms to laws



A plea for disaggregation



Emotions Before Psychology



Introduction



Aristotle on the emotions



The French moralists



Emotion in literature



Social Emotions in Historical Context



Introduction



Shame and social norms



Envy in social life



Honor, duels, and feuds



Rationality and the Emotions



Introduction



The nature of emotion



Rationality and the emotions; Appendix



Alchemies of the Mind



Introduction



Transmutation



Misrepresentation; Coda