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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