Download or read book Robert Musil et la question anthropologique written by Florence Vatan and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1999-12-31T23:00:00+01:00 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « La créature humaine est capable aussi bien de pratiquer l'anthropophagie, que d'écrire la Critique de la raison pure » (Essais, p. 141). Comment penser l'homme, sans avoir à postuler – sur le mode des anthropologies philosophiques traditionnelles – une « nature » humaine dotée d'attributs définis ? Tel est le problème soulevé par Robert Musil dans son œuvre essayiste et romanesque. La seule « vérité » anthropologique que l'on puisse énoncer, est négative : l'homme ne possède pas de forme propre, sinon celles que lui donne la réalité socioculturelle constituant son horizon de pensée et d'expérience. Au regard de cet « amorphisme » constitutif, l'idéal d'un sujet autonome et souverain se révèle illusoire. Musil pose les fondements théoriques de son intuition, en mobilisant différentes perspectives scientifiques : l'ethnologie, le calcul des probabilités et – en premier lieu – la psychologie de la forme (Gestaltpsychologie). Son roman, « L'Homme sans qualités », devient le site expérimental d'un dialogue avec ces différents savoirs, dans le cadre d'une enquête sur les formes possibles de l'expérience humaine. La signification politique d'un tel projet devient manifeste à la lumière du contexte idéologique de l'entre-deux-guerres. L'anthropologie musilienne oppose une fin de non-recevoir aux théories raciales, et aux morphologies culturelles, ainsi qu'à leur définition normative des types humains. On voit se dessiner – à travers cette étude de l'œuvre musilienne sous l'angle inédit de la question anthropologique – la figure d'un écrivain remarquablement attentif aux controverses idéologiques, ainsi qu'à l'évolution politique de l'Europe des années vingt et trente. La réponse de Musil - à ce qu'il perçoit comme une crise de l'homme européen - se fonde sur une écriture littéraire nourrie d'une vaste culture scientifique.
Download or read book Understanding Robert Musil written by Allen Thiher and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of The Man without Qualities In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), Allen Thiher offers deft analysis of Musil's short fiction, theater, and essays, and his major novel, The Man without Qualities. Thiher maps Musil's development as a writer, illustrating how his work evolved in response to catastrophic historical events such as World War I, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Hitler's seizure of power. From this historical context, Thiher traces how Musil began his career by writing a prescient first novel about ideological developments in German culture and, at the same time, a doctoral thesis on scientific epistemology. Following his service in World War I, Musil began to view writing as his vocation and, during this early period in his literary career, he produced short fiction, plays, and some of the most interesting essays on politics, ethics, and literature to be published during the Weimar era. In exploring these writings as well as The Man without Qualities, a work left unfinished upon Musil's death in exile during World War II, Thiher's study plumbs the depths of Musil's ambition and accomplishments and presents a concise interpretation of the lasting significance of the writer's interrogations of the foundations of modern European culture.
Download or read book Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday written by Gregory Paschalidis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linchpin of the momentous paradigm shift that produced the new hermeneutics of everyday life was a focus on people as active agents in various cultural contexts, uses and practices, the merging of the conventional distinctions between the private and the public, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic, and the bridging of the agency/structure divide marking grand historical and cultural narratives. In their place, a wealth of new kinds of narratives were produced out what ...
Download or read book Primitive Thinking written by Nicola Gess and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three figurations of alterity prominent in European primitivism: indigenous cultures, children, and the mentally ill.
Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil written by Philip Payne and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time.
Download or read book Memory and Postwar Memorials written by M. Silberman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated violence.
Download or read book Forms of Life written by Andreas Gailus and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forms of Life, Andreas Gailus argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. He insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. Forms of Life develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. Gailus shows that the modern conception of "life" as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biological thought. At the core of this vitalist strand of thought, Gailus maintains, lies a persistent emphasis on the dynamics of formation and deformation, and thus on an intrinsically aesthetic dimension of life. Forms of Life brings this older discourse into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of biopolitics and vitalism, while also developing a rich conception of life that highlights, rather than suppresses, its protean character. Gailus demonstrates that life unfolds in the open-ended interweaving of the myriad forms and modalities of biological, ethical, political, psychical, aesthetic, and biographical systems.
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Download or read book The Politics of Alterity written by Sarah Mazouz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is France afraid of her others? By looking back at the discourses and practices that have been formed over the last fifteen years, Sarah Mazouz addresses French politics of alterity. Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in both public administrations in charge of combating racial discrimination and in naturalisation offices in a large city in the Paris region, she shows how immigration, nation, and racialisation are articulated in the social space. Through the analysis of these two public offices, Mazouz questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner. In so doing, she seeks to grasp the paradoxical relationship between the French Republic and her others and the plural logics producing national order.
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