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常識認為，選擇總是多多益善，知識也是越多越好。而這本挑釁性的書認為，常識經常破產。有時候，情況實在是：少即是多；人們可能受益於選擇受限，或受益於無知。 構成《解除束縛的尤利西斯：理性、預先約束與約束研究》的三篇長文，修訂和擴充了喬恩·埃爾斯特的經典作品《尤利西斯與海妖》中發展出來的觀念。然而，它並不只是早先那《解除束縛的尤利西斯：理性、預先約束與約束研究》的一個新版本。很多問題之前只是點到為止，在這裏得到了更詳細的探討。 首章研究的是：個人可能以什麼方式、出於什麼理由限制自己的行動自由，其實例的範圍從宗教激進主義到成癮。第二章批評了埃爾斯特自己頗有影響的理論：政治憲法可以被認為是預先約束策略。他現在的觀點是：在政治中，人們主要想約束別人，而不是約束自己。第三章討論的是藝術品創作中的約束，實例取自長篇小說、電影和爵士樂。 在結語中，埃爾斯特顯示，看上去完全不同的例證透露了相同的模式，以至於他提議開闢一個新的研究領域：約束理論。 《解除束縛的尤利西斯：理性、預先約束與約束研究》以埃爾斯特典型的鮮活風格寫成，定會讓專業人士以及研習哲學、政治科學、心理學和經濟學的學者們興味盎然。

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; 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 are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; 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 are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics.