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- 9780226554082
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226554082
ISBN-13
9780226554082
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1817297
Product Key Features
Book Title
Precision and Soul : Essays and Addresses
Number of Pages
329 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / German, Essays
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
90-010828
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
833/.912
Table Of Content
Foreword Introduction The Obscene and Pathological in Art Novellas Profile of a Program Politics in Austria The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics On Robert Musil's Books Political Confessions of a Young Man Moral Fruitfulness The Mathematical Man [On Criticism] The Goals of Literature [On the Essay] Literary Chronicle Commentary on a Metapsychics Sketch of What the Writer Knows [Psychology and Literature] Cinema or Theater Literati and Literature Anschluss with Germany Buridan's Austrian "Nation" as Ideal and as Reality Helpless Europe Mind and Experience The German as Symptom Toward a New Aesthetic Woman Yesterday and Tomorrow Ruminations of a Slow-witted Mind Address at the Memorial Service for Rilke in Berlin The Serious Writer in Our Time [Lecture, Paris] On Stupidity Appendix A. Musil's Sketch for an Introduction to a Planned Volume of Essays Appendix B. Dates of First Publication Notes
Synopsis
"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."-- Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul--the matter of life and art."-- Choice, "We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity, ' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."-- Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul--the matter of life and art."-- Choice, "We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul." Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel "The Man without Qualities, " Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, "Young Torless, " is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of "The Man without Qualities" is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity, ' which, with a new translation of "The Man without Qualities" forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories." Joseph Coates, "Chicago Tribune" "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett." "Boston Review" "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul the matter of life and art." "Choice""
LC Classification Number
PT2625.U8A25 1990
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