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Robert Musil and the Question of Science - Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two Cultures (Hardcover)
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Robert Musil and the Question of Science - Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading
Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals,
emerged from the problem of the "two cultures." The modern era is
marked by the separate life of two cultures of understanding, one
derived from art and its discourses, the other from science and its
practices. This "problem of the two cultures" (as coined by C.P.
Snow) describes the difficulty of bringing these distinct ways of
understanding the world together. The works of the Austrian author
Robert Musil (1930-33) represent the most distinguished treatment
of this problem in the modern era. Nevertheless, doubts persist
about Musil's true intentions. Did he maintain that the separation
between art and science could be resolved? Or did he rise above the
problem by advocating a new order of being or "other condition"
that would dispense with it altogether? Mehigan's study moves these
questions to center stage. He lends new clarity to the debate about
Musil's position in regard to the two cultures by shining a light
on ethical questions the author ultimately wished to clarify. It is
the shape of a hard-won ethics, Mehigan argues, that provides the
key to an effective response to the problem of the two cultures -
an ethics, in the end, that can only be put forward as a new kind
of art. Tim Mehigan is Professor of German and Deputy Director of
the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the
University of Queensland, Australia.
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