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Ironically, despite Schopenhauer's relative simplicity, not a single one of all the brilliant phenomenologists of the 20th century, who all believed in free will (Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Lévinas...), ever managed to properly refute determinism. In fact, they handily ignored this work. If only they had read it, their systems would not have suddenly lapsed from brilliance into incoherent obfuscation whenever they were confronted with the problem of freedom. Also, they could have integrated it with a theory of the unconscious like Jung's very easily, rather than being forced into deliberate ignorance of depth psychology (like Heidegger), or terrible refutations of the unconscious (like Sartre).What is more, this is not a materialistic, but an IDEALIST á la Berkeley proof of total determinism! The fact that this is so little read proves what Nietzche said about free will - that a theory so easily refutable will always be believed simply because it is obvious it is not true and the very fact that it IS so easily refutable. Buy this now, if you've got any interest in philosophy, or even more importantly if you're planning to write any philosophy...