Format:
viii, 172 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-1-64014-066-0
,
1-64014-066-2
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Introduction: Musil's Intellectual Position -- Musil and the Two Cultures. The Question of Science -- Musil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of Causality -- Musil's Theory of Vision -- The Essays -- Aesthetics and Ethics in the Context of the Two Cultures. Modernity's Crisis -- Musil's Concept of Value -- Unions: "An Episode of More than Merely Personal Significance" -- The Problem of Trust in The Man Without Qualities -- Musil's Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The Blackbird -- Conclusion: "A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul": Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution -- References -- Index
Content:
"A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the "two cultures.""--
Note:
Several of this volume's chapters were reworked from previously published materials in German. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-78744-675-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
1880-1942 Musil, Robert
;
Wissenschaft
Author information:
Mehigan, Tim 1960-
