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Precision and Soul (Paperback, New edition)
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Precision and Soul (Paperback, New edition)
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"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 Toerless, 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
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