ROBERT MUSIL'S OTHER POSTMODERNISM: ESSAYISMUS, TEXTUAL SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY

Freed articulates Robert Musil's position within the philosophical discourse of modernity by identifying the principal features of his participation in modernity's effort to create normativity out of one's own self/moment. He explores new contexts for Musil's reception within deb...

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Published inComparative literature studies (Urbana) Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 231 - 253
Main Author Freed, Mark M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University Park The Pennsylvania State University Press 01.01.2007
Penn State University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Subjects
Comparative literature
Discourse analysis
Enlightenment
Essays
Ethical epistemology
Ethics
Modern philosophy
Modernist art
Morality
Musil, Robert (1880-1942)
Phenomena
Philosophers
Philosophical subject
Postmodern philosophy
Postmodernism
Reason
Subjectivity
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Summary:Freed articulates Robert Musil's position within the philosophical discourse of modernity by identifying the principal features of his participation in modernity's effort to create normativity out of one's own self/moment. He explores new contexts for Musil's reception within debates about postmodernism. These new contexts provide loci at which to gauge Musil's attempts within the cultural project of modernity to create normativity out of his own moment without, however, recurring to subject-centered reason. Among other things, he discusses Musil's quest for new discursive techniques with which to engage the problem of normativity emerges most clearly in a distinction Musil makes between morality and ethics that is in turn grounded in the different modes of rationality associated with each.
ISSN:0010-4132
1528-4212
1528-4212
DOI:10.1353/cls.2007.0057