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Jörn Müller and Sonja Schierbaum (eds.), Varieties of Voluntarism in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge, 2024, 308pp., $190.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032291062.
Reviewed by Monika Michałowska, Medical University of Łódź
Reviewed by Monika Michałowska, Medical University of Łódź
Theories of the will have gained a special place in philosophy and theology. The editors and contributors of Varieties of Voluntarism concentrate on the multilayered structure of the debate on the will as it played out in medieval and early modern philosophy. Attending to the voluntarist side, the volume offers insights into various species of voluntarism developed in late medieval (mostly the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) and early modern (until the eighteenth century) philosophy. Casting aside one standard framing of this debate, given in terms intellectualism vs. voluntarism, and departing from the rather prevalent chronological model standardly adopted in other treatments of this period, the editors have chosen another path by which to tell their story. To shed more light on various aspects of the will…
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