Robert Musil and the question of science: ethics, aesthetics, and the problem of the two cultures
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Main Author: Mehigan, Tim 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York Camden House 2020
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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Abstract: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
"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.""--
Item Description:Several of this volume's chapters were reworked from previously published materials in German
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 172 Seiten
ISBN:9781640140660
1640140662