The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride.

Author/creator McBride, Patrizia C.
Format Book
Publication InfoEvanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Descriptionxi, 231 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesAvant-garde & modernism studies
Avant-garde and modernism studies. ^A379673
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
LCCN 2004029866
ISBN0810121085 (cloth text : alk. paper)
ISBN0810121093 (paper text : alk. paper)
ISBN9780810121089

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