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The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity

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The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride.
Author
McBride, Patrizia C.
Publication
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2006.
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Description
xi, 231 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Avant-garde & modernism studies
Uniform Title
Avant-garde and modernism studies.
Subject
  • Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 > Ethics
  • Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 > Criticism and interpretation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 06-11929
ISBN
  • 0810121085 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0810121093 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2004029866
  • 9780810121089
OCLC
57251067
Author
McBride, Patrizia C.
Title
The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride.
Imprint
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2006.
Series
Avant-garde & modernism studies
Avant-garde and modernism studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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9780810121089
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JFE 06-11929
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