McBride, Patrizia C.

The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2006. - xi, 231 p. ; 24 cm. - Avant-garde & modernism studies . - Avant-garde and modernism studies .

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.

9780810121096 0810121093 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004029866


Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 --Ethics.
Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 --Criticism and interpretation.

PT2625.U8 / Z982 2006

833/.912

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