Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Musil’s Intellectual Position

pp 1-12

Part I - Musil and the Two Cultures

pp 13-14

1 - The Question of Science

pp 15-31

2 - Musil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of Causality

pp 32-50

3 - Musil’s Theory of Vision

pp 51-62

4 - The Essays

pp 63-76

Part II - Aesthetics and Ethics in the Context of the Two Cultures

pp 77-78

5 - Modernity’s Crisis

pp 79-91

6 - Musil’s Concept of Value

pp 92-109

7 - Unions: “An Episode of More than Merely Personal Significance”

pp 110-121

8 - The Problem of Trust in The Man Without Qualities

pp 122-134

9 - Musil’s Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The Blackbird

pp 135-148

Conclusion: “A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul”: Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution 149

pp 149-160

References

pp 161-168

Index

pp 169-172