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Musil Robert . 1880--1942, Austrian novelist, whose novel The Man Without Qualities (1930--42) is an ironic examination of contemporary ills How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet in his attempts to mediate between concept and sensation, the general and the particular, his essayistic cultural critique shared with those of Robert Musil, Benjamin, and Bloch an ideational-sensual focus on the explicitly modern "ordinary" phenomena of the contemporary life-world. In issuing a "call for a newly understood civic learning," Caryn McTighe Musil (2003, 4-5) makes the case that civic learning must be academically based. It appeals to those whom the Austrian novelist Robert Musil described as "Manner ohne Eigenschaften," people who have neither moral nor social substance and live by slogans, which they mistake for "principles. |
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