4. Möglichkeitssinn und Essayismus

Nübel, Birgit; Wolf, Norbert Christian

doi:10.1515/9783110255577-064

Robert-Musil-Handbuch 2016

DOI: 10.1515/9783110255577-064

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4. Möglichkeitssinn und Essayismus

Birgit Nübel¹,

Norbert Christian Wolf²

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“…They study essayism as a general cultural phenomenon. For an overview of the literature on Musil’s essayism, which is often considered a key concept for his work, see Nübel (2016).…”

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Essayism as a form of writing and a form of life

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As Wittgenstein still eludes classification as either an analytic or a poetic philosopher, this article considers his work under the perspective of essayism as a hybrid intellectual attitude that combines elements from both modes of thinking. Drawing on Adorno’s and Musil’s accounts, I present four characteristics of essayism that can be applied to Wittgenstein’s writing: (a) essayism does not claim access to primal knowledge or an absolute starting point of thought, but typically reacts to given ideas; (b) it is systematic insofar as it is concerned with words, things, and events in systemic contexts rather than in isolation; (c) it is anti‐systematic insofar as it neither accepts the given conceptual system nor strives for an ultimate system in which all things are in their place and all problems ultimately solved; (d) it is aware of, and emphasizes, the mediatedness of its objects and warns of any equation of the conceptual ordering with the order of reality. As a consequence, essayism goes beyond a particular text form, but concerns an attitude towards the world that manifests itself in various forms. It thus turns out to be not merely a form of writing but ultimately a form of life.

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“… 27 27 See again Nübel (2016) for an overview of the wealth of interpretations of essayism and the sense of possibility. …”

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