Jon ElsterAlchemies of the Mind
Rationality and the Emotions
Preface and acknowledgments
Part I. A Plea for Mechanisms: 1. Introduction
2. Explaining by mechanisms
3. Proverbial mechanisms
4. Mechanisms in Montaigne
5. Mechanisms in Tocqueville
6. Some elementary mechanisms
7. Molecular mechanisms
8. From mechanisms to laws
9. A plea for disaggregation
Part II. Emotions before Psychology: 1. Introduction
2. Aristotle on the emotions
3. The French moralists
4. Emotion in literature
Part III. Social Emotions in Historical Context: 1. Introduction
2. Shame and social norms
3. Envy in social life
4. Honor, duels, and feuds
Part IV. Rationality and the Emotions: 1. Introduction
2. The nature of emotion
3. Rationality and the emotions
Appendix
Part V. Alchemies of the Mind: 1. Introduction
2. Transmutation
3. Misrepresentation
Coda.
