Book
Cult of the will: nervousness and German modernity
Pennsylvania State University Press
2008
Abstract
Michael Cowan presents a study of modernity's preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche's 'will to power' to a fantasy of the 'triumph of the will' under Nazism, the will - its pathologies and potential cures - was a topic of urgent debate in European modernity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cult of the will: nervousness and German modernity
- Creators
- Michael Cowan - University of Iowa, Cinematic Arts
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press; University Park, Pa
- ISBN
- 9780271032061; 0271032065
- Number of pages
- ix, 343 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9983995692402771
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