The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity /
McBride, Patrizia C.
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
An unfashionable modernist -- Törless 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 -- Fragments of an inductive ethos.
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942