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Auteur Jon ELSTER |
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America before 1787 : The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime / Jon ELSTER / Princeton University Press (2023)
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Titre : America before 1787 : The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Jon ELSTER Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2023 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691242651 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America. Here, he explores the increasingly uneasy relations between Britain and its American colonies and the social movements through which the thirteen colonies overcame their seemingly deep internal antagonisms.Elster documents the importance of the radical uncertainty about their opponents that characterized both British and American elites and reveals the often neglected force of enthusiasm, and of emotions more generally, in shaping beliefs and in motivating actions. He provides the first detailed examinations of “divide and rule” as a strategy used on both sides of the Atlantic and of the rise and fall of collective action movements among the Americans. Elster also explains how the gradual undermining in America of the British imperial system took its toll on transatlantic relations and describes how state governments and the American Confederation made crucial institutional decisions that informed and constrained the making of the Constitution.Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and on theories of modern social science, Elster brings together two fields of scholarship in innovative and original ways. The result is a unique synthesis that yields new insights into some of the most important events in modern history. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88957014 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=596730
Titre : Reason and Rationality Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Jon ELSTER Editeur : Princeton University Press Année de publication : 2008 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780691139005 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging 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 of rationality to explain behavior. In place of these approaches, Elster proposes a unified conceptual framework for the study of behavior. Drawing on classical moralists as well as modern scholarship, and using a wealth of historical and contemporary illustrations, Reason and Rationality marks a new development in Elster's thinking while at the same time providing a brief, elegant, and accessible introduction to his work. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : https://neoma-bs.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88935115 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=556817

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