Robert Musil and the nonmodern / Mark M. Freed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freed, Mark M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musil, Robert, 1880-1942--Criticism and interpretation.

Musil, Robert.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain--History.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource 1 online reource (xiv, 177 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses. But while Musil is a major scholarly industry in the German-speaking world, critical attention from English-speaking scholars remains disproportionately small. Moreover, there has been little engagement with Musil's contribution to cultural theory from those working outside literary studies. Freed brings Musil into dialogue with such critics of the modern as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Lyotard and argues that Musil's theory and literary performance of essayism constitutes a strategy of nonmodernity: that is, an engagement with the problems of modernity that does not re-inscribe the distinctions on which modernism grounded itself. This book not only offers an understanding of Musil's essayism made possible by Latour's account of modernity: it also articulates what the discursive and cultural project of nonmodernity might look like. The book thereby introduces Musil scholars and those working in the problematics of postmodernism to one another's interests"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

The thought figure of the nonmodern

Something other than reason's other

Disclosing concealed being

Order without system

Toward a nonmodern avant-garde

Judgment without criteria.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780826441935

0826441939

9781472543165

1472543165

OCLC:

1029204849