{"product_id":"maladies-of-the-will-9780226822020","title":"Maladies of the Will","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this brilliant, utterly singular study of the will, the modern individual, and modernity itself as problems, Fleissner makes a stunning intervention in the history and theory of the novel. It is no exaggeration to say that \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e is on par with the achievements of Ian Watt and György Lukács. But Fleissner’s ability to combine astonishing erudition with deft diagnoses of critical impasses in our present strikes me as unparalleled. This book marks nothing less than a historical turning point in how we will read literature.” * Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e“Full of dazzling philosophical insight, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e offers a striking new way to understand the American novel. Fleissner shows us how the novel is uniquely equipped to grapple with the irreducible strangeness of the human will. To evade the problem of the will––as some strands of current thought tend to do––is to miss what novels have uncovered about the dilemmas of agency that continue to define our lives. A tremendous achievement.” * Nancy A. Bentley, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“This long-awaited monograph is poised to transform literary studies and philosophy with a brilliant reexamination of two of these disciplines’ most cherished objects of study: the novel and the will. . . Combining astonishing foresight and erudition, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e will revolutionize why we read that most modern of forms, the novel, and how we think of that most ancient of problems, the will.” * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"In one of the most comprehensive and erudite Americanist contributions to the field of literature and philosophy in quite some time, Fleissner challenges many of the assumptions underwriting the currently regnant posthumanist paradigm. . . . The book should be required reading, not just for those still willing to defend the (ostensibly) lost cause of the willful human subject, but also (and especially) those for whom the so-called death of the subject cannot come fast enough.\" * Transatlantica *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this ambitious study, [Fleissner] offers a new interpretation of the novel and its evolving form . . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e    The Book’s Organization\u003cbr\u003e    Chapter Descriptions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Novel and the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Literary-Critical (from Lionel Trilling to Zadie Smith)\u003cbr\u003e    Historical (from Augustine to Romanticism)\u003cbr\u003e    Theoretical (from Locke and Sentimentalism to Pragmatism and Affect—and an Alternative to Both)\u003cbr\u003e 1 Before and After the Novel: Abyssal Modernity and the Interior Life of the Will\u003cbr\u003e    The Strange Problem of Too Much Interiority\u003cbr\u003e    The “Awfully Expanded World”: Seventeenth-Century Selfhood and Its Precursors\u003cbr\u003e    The Eighteenth Century Tames the Self\u003cbr\u003e    The Return of the Wilderness Within, from the Gothic to Kant\u003cbr\u003e    Law and Freedom in \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Vitalizing the Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e    The Bildungsroman as a Body’s Story\u003cbr\u003e    The Birth of Medical Vitalism: The Body as Wayward Will\u003cbr\u003e    Vitalist Legacies, I: Sensibility, Romanticism, and the Birth of Psychology\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eThe Morgesons\u003c\/i\u003e as Vitalist Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e    The Reflex and the Return to Mechanism\u003cbr\u003e    Vitalist Legacies, II: The Alternative Neovitalisms of Goldstein and Canguilhem\u003cbr\u003e 3 General Willfulness: \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and Romantic Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e    Modernity’s Two Wills\u003cbr\u003e    Ahab, or Anatomizing the Romantic Will (Hegel, Fichte, Lukács)\u003cbr\u003e    Ishmael and Intensity (Spinoza, Schopenhauer)\u003cbr\u003e    The General Will (Rousseau, Arendt)\u003cbr\u003e    Coda: Pip’s Dissent\u003cbr\u003e 4 The James Brothers at Century’s End: Mysticism, Abstraction, and the Forms of Social Life\u003cbr\u003e    William and the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Four Visions of Sociality: Intermingling, Fusion, Intersubjectivity, Form\u003cbr\u003e    William and the Sick Soul\u003cbr\u003e    The Social Phantasmagoria of \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 “Begin All Over Again”: Naturalism, Habit, and the Embodiment of the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Evolutionary Economics and the Moral Danger of Doing Nothing\u003cbr\u003e    The Brute’s Two Faces: Frank Norris’s \u003ci\u003eVandover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Subjects of Interest and Habit in Contemporary Theory: Sedgwick, Berlant, Foucault\u003cbr\u003e    Nietzsche’s Return to Vitalism\u003cbr\u003e    Coda: Humanization Run Wild\u003cbr\u003e 6 Narrative and Its Discontents: Racial Justice, Existential Action, and the Problem of the Past\u003cbr\u003e    The “Racial Politics of Temporality,” Then and Now (Hopkins and Dunbar)\u003cbr\u003e    The Realist Insistence: Chesnutt’s \u003ci\u003eMarrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A Certain Distance: The Uncanny Everyday (Spillers and Freud)\u003cbr\u003e    Du Bois and the Moment of Hesitation\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732928442711,"sku":"9780226822020","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226822020.jpg?v=1719998987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maladies-of-the-will-9780226822020","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}