Robert Musil's Intellectual Affinities
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Robert Musil's Intellectual Affinities

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Robert Musil's Intellectual Affinities

About this book

In German-speaking modernity, Robert Musil may lay the last valid claim to the title of Universalgenie. Trained as a soldier, engineer, philosopher, and psychologist, he did not shy from investigations beyond his accredited purview. His work repurposes the conceptual inventories of literature, philosophy, science, law, medicine, politics, education, etc. to revisit classical questions of beauty, truth, and morality within an ultra-complex modern context. The answers he finds are not conclusive but suggestive and always invite re-examination. Musil studies, at its best, embraces his practice of multivalent inquiry, and the present essay collection endeavors to follow suit. Drawing from Musil's fiction, essays, letters, diaries, and public addresses, the authors of this volume offer unexpected treatments of ideas that Musil examined and reveal previously overlooked links between those ideas and other authors, works, and movements. The contributions have a footing in fields such as psychology, sociology, and statistics; cover concepts like humor, identity, and love; and deal with literary epochs or theories ranging from Romanticism and Modernity to decadence and reader response.

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Information

Publisher
Peter Lang Group
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9783034330947
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of contents
  3. Editors’ Preface
  4. Eine menschliche Moderne? Robert Musils Versuch einer neuen Synthese auf dem Boden der Gestaltpsychologie (Birthe Hoffmann)
  5. Von der Gefühlspsychologie zur Poetologie der „Stimmung“. Musils Weiterschreiben von Carl Stumpf (Sergej Rickenbacher)
  6. Musil wiederbegegnet: VerfĂźhrung als Interpretationsinstrument in Vereinigungen (Agnieszka Hudzik)
  7. „…sie fühlten alle diesen Dritten um sich stehen“. Wie sich die Figur des Dritten zur Liebe verhält in Robert Musils Frühwerk (Friederike Schläfer)
  8. Statistics and the Novel: Robert Musil and Richard von Mises (Florence Vatan)
  9. Habsburg Loyalties as Intellectual Affinities: Non-National Allegiances in Robert Musil and Bernard Bolzano (Salvatore Pappalardo)
  10. Der Fall Homo: Musil’s Grigia and Nietzsche’s Der Fall Wagner (Brett Martz)
  11. Humor, Musil + the Romantics (Todd Cesaratto)
  12. Authors