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Highlights
- Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other.
- Author(s): Jon Elster
- 266 Pages
- Psychology, Emotions
- Series Name: Jean Nicod Lectures
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About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster's study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice.The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. 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. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the variety of human motivations who are dissatisfied with the prevailing reductionisms.
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"Useful and consistently sensible and interesting."--Simon Blackburn, "Times Literary Supplement"
" Useful and consistently sensible and interesting." -- Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement
" Useful and consistently sensible and interesting." -- Simon Blackburn, "Times Literary Supplement"
-- Simon Blackburn, "Times Literary Supplement"
Dimensions (Overall): 7.92 Inches (H) x 5.36 Inches (W) x .62 Inches (D)
Weight: .67 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 266
Genre: Psychology
Sub-Genre: Emotions
Series Title: Jean Nicod Lectures
Publisher: Bradford Book
Format: Paperback
Author: Jon Elster
Language: English
Street Date: July 24, 2000
TCIN: 91092301
UPC: 9780262550369
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-3128
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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