Dialectics of the will

the long version

"John H. Smith reexamines the will in terms of the philosophical debates that began in the seventeenth century. He looks at 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. Dialectics of the Will thus develops a new model of human agency by analyzing modern and postmodern theory in Germany and France.". "Dialectics of the Will is a study that will interest feminist and gender theorists as well as students and scholars of German philosophy, critical theory, and intellectual history."--BOOK JACKET.