Void of Ethics Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity

Name: Void of Ethics Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity
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ISBN: 9780810121096

ISBN-10: 0810121093

ISBN-13: 9780810121096

Edition: 2006

Authors: Patrizia McBride

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In a pluralistic society without absolute standards of judgment, how can an individual live a moral life? This is the question Robert Musil (1880-1942), an Austrian-born engineer and mathematician turned writer, asked in essays, plays, and fiction that grapple with the moral ambivalence of modern life. Though unfinished, his monumental novel of Vienna in the febrile days before World War I, The Man without Qualities, is identified by German scholars as the most important literary work of the twentieth century. In a fresh examination of his essays, notebooks, and fiction, Patrizia McBride reconstructs Musil's understanding of ethics as a realm of experience that eludes language and thought.…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 4/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: An Unfashionable Modernist



Torless and the Delusions of Sensuality



The "Mathematical Man," or The Advantages of Scientific Precision



World War I and the Troubles of a "Time Devoid of Ordering Concepts,"



Kant and the Ethos of Aesthetic Judgment



Staging the Failure of an Aesthetic Utopia: The Man without Qualities


Postscript: Fragments of an Inductive Ethos


Notes


Works Cited


Index