The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride.
By: McBride, Patrizia C.
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BookSeries: Avant-garde and modernism studies: Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2006Description: xi, 231 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780810121096; 0810121093 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Ethics
| Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 833/.912 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
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.
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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.
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