Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity by Michael Cowan

Cult of the Will: Nervousness and German Modernity

Michael Cowan

343 pages hardcover

2 editions

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Cult of the Will is the first comprehensive study of modernity's preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche's "will to power" to the fantasy of a "triumph of the will" under Nazism, the will--its pathologies and potential cures--was a topic of u...

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