• PrefaceIntroduction: Musil's Intellectual PositionThe Question of ScienceMusil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of CausalityMusil's Theory of VisionThe EssaysModernity's CrisisMusil's Concept of ValueUnions-"An episode of more than merely personal significance"The Problem of Trust in The Man Without QualitiesMusil's Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The BlackbirdConclusion: "A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul": Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution

This superb study anchors and clarifies Musil's struggle with precision and soul in a destabilized, rapidly changing world. An extraordinary piece of work. - Burton Pike, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, editor and (with Sophie Wilkins) co-translator of The Man without Qualities (1996)

• PrefaceIntroduction: Musil's Intellectual PositionThe Question of ScienceMusil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of CausalityMusil's Theory of VisionThe EssaysModernity's CrisisMusil's Concept of ValueUnions-"An episode of more than merely personal significance"The Problem of Trust in The Man Without QualitiesMusil's Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The BlackbirdConclusion: "A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul": Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution

This superb study anchors and clarifies Musil's struggle with precision and soul in a destabilized, rapidly changing world. An extraordinary piece of work. - Burton Pike, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, editor and (with Sophie Wilkins) co-translator of The Man without Qualities (1996)

• PrefaceIntroduction: Musil's Intellectual PositionThe Question of ScienceMusil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of CausalityMusil's Theory of VisionThe EssaysModernity's CrisisMusil's Concept of ValueUnions-"An episode of more than merely personal significance"The Problem of Trust in The Man Without QualitiesMusil's Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The BlackbirdConclusion: "A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul": Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution

This superb study anchors and clarifies Musil's struggle with precision and soul in a destabilized, rapidly changing world. An extraordinary piece of work. - Burton Pike, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, editor and (with Sophie Wilkins) co-translator of The Man without Qualities (1996)