Schopenhauer's texts remind me of My Body by Young The Giant. I chose this song because Schopenhauer discusses knowing the will through manifestations of it, such as movement, action and the body (66). The song plays on the notion that our bodies attempt to communicate with us things it wants us to do, yet we have the agency to ignore or refute this bodily desire and do what we want instead. Schopenhauer would argue that we are at once determined by certain laws of nature and free to do as we will. Since this song mentions the body explicitly, it reminded me of how Schopenhauer describes the will as the body as it exists in this phenomenal world. By reducing us to our bodies and our desires, this song also plays on the notion that when we "devote the whole power of our mind to perception, [we] sink completely therein, and let our whole consciousness be filled by the calm contemplation of the natural object actually present" (80), in this case the song. While this song maybe isn't musically of merit, it does allow us to "lose ourselves entirely in the object.... forget our individuality, our will, and continue to exist only as pure subject, as clear mirror of the object, so that it is as thought the object alone existed without anyone to perceive it, and thus we are no longer able to separate the perceiver from the perception, but the two have become one, since the entire consciousness is filled and occupied by a single image of perception" (80). Hope you enjoy!