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Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints
by
Jon Elster
This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book though; many of the issues merely touched on before ar...more
Paperback, 324 pages
Published
March 28th 2000
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 2000)
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A sequel to Ulysses and the Sirens, Ulysses unbound is the better work, the result, no doubt, of more thought. The topic, on self-restriction, is an interesting, even important one, but Elster's "rational choice" psychology, was not quite up to the job. Nor was his resurrection of the ancient dichotomy between reason and the passions. Better perhaps to have adopted a more profoundly social-psychological approach, somewhat in the manner of G H Mead.
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