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Robert Musil and the question of science : ethics, aesthetics, and the problem of the two cultures /

"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.""--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mehigan, Timothy J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2020.
Colección:Studies in German literature linguistics and culture
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.