The void of ethics
Subtitle: Robert Musil and the experience of modernity
By: Patrizia C. McBride.
Series: Avant-garde & modernism studies
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Ethics; Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An unfashionable modernist; title: Törless and the delusions of sensuality; title: The mathematical man, or the advantages of scientific precision; title: World War I and the troubles of a "Time devoid of ordering concepts"; title: Kant and the ethos of aesthetic judgment; title: Staging the failure of an aesthetic Utopia: The Man Without Qualities; title: "How should one live?" Fragments of an inductive ethos.