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How to Write About Value: Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities
How to Write About Value: Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105201
- ISBN
- 9798265451347
- DDC
- 830
- 저자명
- Benzvi, Anat.
- 서명/저자
- How to Write About Value: Robert Musils Man Without Qualities
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Princeton University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 163 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Jennings, Michael W.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약"How to Write about Value" offers an analysis of Robert Musil's approach to the philosophical problem of value. It focuses on Musil's der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), an unfinished novel written between 1921 and 1942. Musil's articulation of the problem of value is heavily influenced by Nietzsche: the highest values have lost their vitality, meaning, and authority. But Musil also understands the problem of value in a more formal sense: a disorder within the functioning of connection and disjunction. He seeks to find a more lively, meaningful, or authoritative value by experimenting with the figures of connection and disjunction as they appear in various domains, especially morality and aesthetics. This dissertation reconstructs those experiments. Chapter 2 describes the moral valence of the problem of value: moral judgement is not equal to its task, because our connections to others don't appear as such. Chapter 3 describes the aesthetic valence of the problem of value: art's separation from life is what allows it to be the bearer of value, but this fact destroys value. Chapter 4 reconstructs how Musil applies art's separation from life to the sphere of morality in order to imagine a morality not deformed by its usual divisions. Musil's novel poses notorious challenges to interpretation because of the puzzles it erects around its own coherence, on top of a deep-rooted tonal ambivalence. In the figures of disjunction and connection, this dissertation finds a unit of analysis that lives up to these challenges. Like Hegel, Musil sometimes refers to the paradoxical entanglement of these figures as abstraction, which points as well to the entanglement of disintegration and holism, of distance from life and life, of devaluation and value. For Musil, at least refusing their easy reconciliation is an ethical stance and the beginning of an answer to the question of how to write.
- 일반주제명
- German literature
- 일반주제명
- Ethics
- 일반주제명
- Literature
- 일반주제명
- Aesthetics
- 키워드
- Abstraction
- 키워드
- Cruel optimism
- 키워드
- Devaluation
- 키워드
- Diremption
- 키워드
- Musil
- 키워드
- Value
- 기타저자
- Princeton University German
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17359708▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
