1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336123103316

Titolo

BBC Monitoring Africa - Economic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

BBC Worldwide Limited

Soggetti

Information Technology - Computer Science (Hardware & Networks)

Information Technology - General and Others

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911008469103321

Autore

Sebastian Thomas

Titolo

The intersection of science and literature in Musil's "The man without qualities" / / Thomas Sebastian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2005

ISBN

1-281-94913-2

9786611949136

1-57113-655-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 150 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Classificazione

GM 4904

Disciplina

833/.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-146) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Experimental psychology: Musil's academic apprenticeship -- Figure and Gestalt -- Indeterminacy, chance, and singularity -- Multiple subjects: The construction of a hypothetical narrative -- Moosbrugger, Frauenzimmer, and the law.

Sommario/riassunto

As the utopian projection of a world in which the conditional mood is preferred to the indicative, Robert Musil's ambitious novel 'The Man Without Qualities' is widely recognized as a great example of aesthetic modernism and a profound reflection on the 'postmodern condition.'



Based on the new and more inclusive English translation by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike, this study provides the English-speaking reader with a well-researched commentary that situates Musil's novel in the cultural, literary, and scientific context of the early 20th century. Revealing the novel's many philosophical underpinnings, the study analyzes the intersection of theoretical reflection and aesthetic imagination essential to Musil's programmatic move beyond realism. Thomas Sebastian explores Musil's background in experimental psychology, which he studied under the pioneering psychologist Carl Stumpf, and how it and other strains of scientific thought, including that of Ernst Mach, on whose philosophical ideas Musil wrote his doctoral thesis, are reflected in his great novel. Thomas Sebastian is associate professor of German at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.