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Contents
Introduction
Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H.A. Evans
Chapter 1. Trigger Warnings: Danger, Desire, and Declensions of the Will in Eating Disorders Treatment
Rebecca J. Lester
Chapter 2. Three Problems with the Addiction as Akrasia Thesis that Ethnography Can Solve
Darin Weinberg
Chapter 3. To Live Like ‘People’: Drinking and Weakness of Will Among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Francesca Mezzenzana
Chapter 4. Prayer, Demons, and Akratic Sublation
Jon Bialecki
Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Humans: Modelling the Pathways to Inertia, Backsliding, and Moral Transgression on Indonesia’s Hypnotherapy Circuit
Nicholas J. Long
Chapter 6. The ‘Replication’ of Caste as a Form of Collective Akrasia
Ivan Deschenaux
Chapter 7. Is Grit Irrational for Akratic Agents?
Lubomira Radoilska
Chapter 8. Relational Akrasia: Care and the Distribution of Action
Patrick McKearney
Afterword
Richard Holton
Index
Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H. A. Evans
Afterword by Richard Holton
204 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-000-8 Hb Published (June 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80539-001-5 eBook