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

This book argues that the history of 19th-century German philosophy has neglected a crucial narrative: the philosophy of 'Will'. It examines the interconnected philosophies of 'Will' of several notable thinkers, including Goethe, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Eduard von Hartmann, Philipp Mainländer, Julius Bahnsen, and Nietzsche.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Goethe, or the Creative Will 2. Schelling, or the Will of Nature 3. Schopenhauer, or the Will to Life 4. Hartmann, or the Unconscious Will 5. Mainländer, or the Will to Death 6. Bahnsen, or the Contradictory Will 7. Nietzsche, or the Will to Power

About the author

Anthony K. Jensen is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA. He is the author of An Interpretation of Nietzsche's "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life" (Routledge, 2016) and Nietzsche's Philosophy of History (2013). He is co-editor, with Carlotta Santini, of The Re-Encountered Shadow: Nietzsche on Memory and History (2021), and, with Helmut Heit, of Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Jensen Anthony K.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032973517
• ISBN: 978-1-032-97351-7
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Historiography, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought