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OverviewCult of the Will is the first comprehensive study of modernity's preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche's ""will to power"" to the fantasy of a ""triumph of the will"" under Nazism, the will-its pathologies and potential cures-was a topic of urgent debates in European modernity. In this study, Michael Cowan examines the emergence of ""will therapy"" and its impact on arts and culture in Germany after 1900. The book's five chapters lead readers through cross sections of modern German cultural history, including not only literature and aesthetics but also medicine, economics, body culture, and pedagogy. Modernity's fixation on willpower helped prepare the way for fascism, but this trajectory is not Cowan's main concern. His focus falls rather on more widespread ""technologies of the self"" and their role in the effort to reimagine agency for a modern subject caught up in increasingly complex systemic networks. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael CowanPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780271058733ISBN 10: 0271058730 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Reimagining the Will in the Age of Nervousness 1. Capitalism and Abulia Entr'acte: Willpower in the Age of Enterprise 2. Healing the Will: Popular Medicine and the Emergence of Will Therapy 3. Training the Will: Gymnastics and Body Culture 4. Educating the Will: Reform Pedagogy and the School of Rhythm 5. Mapping the Will: European Nervousness and American Willpower. Afterword: Notes on the Persistence of Will Therapy Bibliography Notes IndexReviewsThis story has been often told, but Cowan has found a fascinating and altogether novel way of retelling it, through the lens of the turn-of-the-century preoccupation with overcoming the condition of will impairment, or abulia. --Andreas Killen, Central European History Author InformationMichael Cowan is Assistant Professor of German Studies at McGill University. With Kai Marcel Sicks, he is co-editor of Leibhaftige Moderne: Körper in Kunst und Massenmedien, 1918–1933 (2005). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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