by José Antonio Marina · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433905505
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«El misterio de la voluntad perdida» is the essay by philosopher José Antonio Marina on the disappearance of the concept of will in modern psychology, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (336 pages, in Spanish).
Starting from his declaration as a hired detective, the author investigates why the concept of will has disappeared from psychology manuals and how it was replaced by that of motivation. The book presents it as a symptom of contemporary Western culture affecting art, politics, education and therapies, and defends a position he calls ultramodern, capable of uniting reason with poetry, abstraction with the case and trigonometry with the history of the triangle.
Work number 200 in Anagrama's Argumentos collection. First edition; original publication in 1998.
For readers interested in philosophy, psychology and cultural criticism seeking a profound essay, not suitable for those who prefer aphorisms or fragmentary texts.
