Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions

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Cambridge University Press, 1999 - 450 páginas
Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philosophy and psychology Elster presents a complete account of the role of the emotions in human behavior. Combining methodological and theoretical arguments with empirical case studies and written with Elster's customary verve and economy, this book will have a broad appeal to those in philosophy, psychology, economics, political science, as well as literary studies, history, and sociology.

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A Plea for Mechanisms
1
I2 Explaining by Mechanisms
4
I3 Proverbial Mechanisms
10
I4 Mechanisms in Montaigne
13
I5 Mechanisms in Tocqueville
17
I6 Some Elementary Mechanisms
20
I7 Molecular Mechanisms
32
I8 From Mechanism to Laws
36
III2 Shame and Social Norms
145
III3 Envy in Social Life
164
III4 Honor Duels and Feuds
203
Rationality and the Emotions
239
IV2 The Nature of the Emotions
244
IV3 Rationality and the Emotions
283
The Place of Emotions in the Explanation of Behavior
328
Alchemies of the Mind Transmutation and Misrepresentation
332

I9 A Plea for Disaggregation
44
Emotions Before Psychology
48
II2 Shame and Social Norms
52
II3 The French Moralists
76
II4 Emotions in Literature
107
Social Emotions in Historical Context
139
V2 Transmutation
341
V3 Misrepresentation
370
Coda
403
References
419
Index
441
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