Musil’s Imaginary Bridge

Varzi, Achille C.

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“…(1955, pp. 106-107) As Achille c. Varzi (2014) has seen, the "bridge image"-the same metaphor McLuhan used to describe More's Utopia-is a "key intuition" here: the standard reading is that we have, here, a metaphor of the central dilemma of the novel-possibly the dilemma that underlies Musil's entire literary production: the unfathomable link between the rational and the irrational, the visible and the invisible, the overt world of manifest happenings and the hidden world of inner life. (p. 34) this is precisely how Musil himself, in an essay about a possible new aesthetic, distinguished "art from mysticism": "[art] never entirely loses its connection with the ordinary attitude.…”

Section: The Dialogical New Space Of Robert Musil's Utopian "Novel" Rmentioning

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A Dialogue between Dialogism and Interality

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2016

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Dialogue and dialogism offer one of the most promising paths to interality in the West. Concentrating on the Renaissance tradition of the Humanist dialogue and more recent philosophical practices and theories of dialogue in the twentieth century, this article argues—most notably through a close examination of two major literary and philosophical works: Thomas More’s Utopia and Robert Musil’s Man without Qualities—that one can trace an (interrupted) line between these two transitional historical periods, set at both ends of the “Gutenberg parenthesis,” when relational, dialogic, and thus potentially “interalogical” modes of writing, thinking, and being came to the forefront.Les figures du dialogue et du dialogisme offrent une des voies les plus prometteuses pour approcher la notion d’interalité en Occident. En évoquant la tradition humaniste du dialogue de la Renaissance et les formes plus récentes de pratiques et de théories dialogiques du 20e siècle, cet article trace—à travers notamment une analyse plus approfondie de deux œuvres littéraires et philosophiques majeures : L’Utopie de Thomas More et L’Homme sans qualités de Robert Musil—une ligne (interrompue) entre ces deux périodes historiques transitionnelles, placées à chaque extrémité de la « parenthèse Gutenberg », alors qu’ont émergé des formes d’écriture, de pensée et d’être relationnelles, dialogiques et donc aussi potentiellement « interalogiques »

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Section: The Dialogical New Space Of Robert Musil's Utopian "Novel" Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Dialogue between Dialogism and Interality

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2016

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Robert Musil: la Matematica come audacia della pura ratio

Larese

2014

Lett. Mat. Pristem

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Robert Musil: mathematics as the audacity of pure ratio

Larese¹

2015

Lett Mat Int

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This paper provides a reconstruction of the peculiar role that mathematics plays in Robert Musil's work, focusing especially on his first novel The Confusion of Young Törless and on his essay entitled ''The Mathematical Man''. The analysis shows that the novelty of Musil's approach consists mainly into two different conceptual operations: on the one hand, he identifies the irrational and passionate aspects of this science; on the other hand, he suggests the use of mathematics and its dual nature to resolve the conflict between the emotional and the intellectual human spheres, which to him represented the fundamental cause of the crisis of the modernity.

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Musil’s Imaginary Bridge

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

A Dialogue between Dialogism and Interality

A Dialogue between Dialogism and Interality

Robert Musil: la Matematica come audacia della pura ratio

Robert Musil: mathematics as the audacity of pure ratio

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