The Philosophy of Will: A Reexamination of Late Modern German Philosophy

This book argues that the history of 19th-century German philosophy has neglected an important narrative: the philosophy of ‘Will’. It aims to reconsider the history of late modern philosophy in terms of the interconnected philosophies of ‘Will’ of several notable thinkers: Goethe, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Eduard von Hartmann, Philipp Mainländer, Julius Bahnsen, and Nietzsche.

The book has four goals. First, it shows that philosophy of Will really was a tradition, whose members were each wor...