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What a Piece of Work Is Man Beyond Pleasure and Pain How Motivation Works by E. Tory Higgins Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. 568 pp. S69.95, £45. ISBN 9780199765829.

Barry Schwartz

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Arguing that there is much more to motivation than seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, Higgins points to the importance of desires for value, truth, and control.

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Arguing that there is much more to motivation than seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, Higgins points to the importance of desires for value, truth, and control.

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Arguing that there is much more to motivation than seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, Higgins points to the importance of desires for value, truth, and control.

Key concepts: Pleasure, Pain and pleasure, Value (mathematics), Psychology, Work (physics), Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

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