A passionate romantic as a student at Heidelberg, he had thought of Hitler at first not as some "back-street barber... but a manifestation of will".
Since he characterizes it as not being a manifestation of Will, however, it appears to be keyed into another dimension altogether, in total disconnection from Will as the thing-in-itself.
One can superficially maintain that no contradiction is involved in the act of struggling (i.e., willing) to deny the will-to-live, because one is not saying that Will is somehow destroying itself, but only saying that a more universal manifestation of Will is overpowering a less universal manifestation, namely, the natural, individuated, physically-embodied aspect.
But it remains that within this opposition, Will as a whole is set against itself according to the very the model that Schopenhauer is trying to transcend, namely, the model wherein one manifestation of Will fights against another manifestation, like the divided bulldog ant.
It wasn't until one afternoon of sorting cattle in the rain and yelling at every body and coming inside to write checks and balance books that I realized, 'Oh, God, I'm Barbara Stanwick!'" What Susan made clear to me was not just the "power of thought" but the manifestation of Will and the necessity of choice, of making the right turns in the road, of taking hold of the wheel and steering.
His reason, almost too grim to record, is that it provides the widest possible play to the destructive manifestations of the will.
Over-the-top manifestations of warmth will seem as fake and artificial and deliberately manipulative as those Super Bowl commercials with cute puppies stranded in the rain.
In appalling succession, we are led through details of camp life: the arrival of new prisoners, manifestations of the will to live, a birthday party, expressions of doubts about the existence of God, the guards' boredom, and the grim moment when identification numbers are read out, announcing those about to die.
The new administration, known as the Estado Nôvo ("New State"), so heightened Vargas's control that he was able to suppress all manifestations of popular will and strip Brazil of most of the trappings through which it might eventually hope to become a democracy.
In other words, various manifestations of modality will be examined along the rank-scale.
I focus specifically on the emergence of the living image of the people, the novel idea that popular assemblies, crowds, and protests, were living incarnations of the people's authority, sublime manifestations of popular will.
