DIALECTICS OF THE WILL: FREEDOM, POWER, AND UNDERSTANDING IN MODERN FRENCH AND GERMAN THOUGHT

By John H. Smith

Considers the act of willing as existing in a domain of contradictions, such as freedom and determinism, and unity and fragmentation, to explain how we can be considered free beings. The author develops a model of human agency by analyzing modern and postmodern theory in Germany and France.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814328563
• ISBN13: 9780814328569
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"