The Void of Ethics AVANT-GARDE & MODERNISM AGM STUDIES The Void of Ethics Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity PATRIZIA C. M C BRIDE Northwestern University Press Evanston Illinois Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois 60208-4170 Copyright ? 2006 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2006. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ********** isbn 0-8101-2108-5 (cloth) isbn 0-8101-2109-3 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McBride, Patrizia C. The void of ethics : Robert Musil and the experience of modernity / Patrizia C. McBride. p. cm. —(Avant-garde & modernism studies) Includes bibliographical references. isbn 0-8101-2108-5 (cloth text : alk. paper) — isbn 0-8101-2109-3 (paper text : alk. paper) 1. Musil, Robert, 1880 –1942—Ethics. 2. Musil, Robert, 1880–1942—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. pt 2625. u 8 z 982 2005 833 ?.912–dc22 2004029866 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi -1992. ?? For Salvatore Carollo (1930–2001) Questo libro è per te Contents Acknowledgments, ix List of Abbreviations, xi Introduction: An Unfashionable Modernist, 3 1 T?rless and the Delusions of Sensuality, 27 2 The “Mathematical Man,” or The Advantages of Scienti?c Precision, 53 3 World War I and the Troubles of a “Time Devoid of Ordering Concepts,” 75 4 Kant and the Ethos of Aesthetic Judgment, 97 5 Staging the Failure of an Aesthetic Utopia: The Man without Qualities, 128 Postscript: Fragments of an Inductive Ethos, 165 Notes, 169 Works Cited, 213 Index, 225 Acknowledgments I bene?ted from the help and support of many individuals while working on this book. In particular, I would like to thank Bill Rasch, Marc Weiner, and Andreas Michel for their exceptional engagement in the early stages of the project. Jack Zipes generously read various
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