دانلود کتاب گزینه ها و آژانس

One of the distinctive features of a human life, as opposed to the natural history of a planet or of an iceberg, is how much it is characterized by things not done, or by invitations that have been declined. To be a lawyer is typically to be someone who has considered and declined several other career paths, and to be married to one person to be someone who has had the opportunity to not marry, or often to have married someone else. In this respect the life of an agent, unlike the history of a mere object, is characterized in part negatively, in terms of what that agent has not done as well as what that agent has done. This negative description of an agent does not show up in newspaper obituaries or even in biographies, but it looms large in the accounts we give of one another, and most of all in the accounts we give of ourselves.