On Reading the Will: Law and Desire in Literature and Music

by Jeremy Tambling

This book studies the will, will-power and wilfulness, the will to death or to power, and lack of will. It surveys many texts -- from Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, George Eliot and D H Lawrence -- in order to analyse the history of its different concepts: rational/irrational drive, sexual appetite, or just testamentary, so asserting identity beyond death. Drawing on philosophies of the will in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the book studies music...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194993
• ISBN13: 9781845194994
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"