{"title":"Robert Musil","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Musil’s work delves deeply into the intersections of \u003cstrong\u003eliterature and philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e, exploring the complexities of human thought and society. His writing combines intellectual precision with a nuanced emotional sensibility, inviting readers to reflect on the tensions between rationality and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this collection, expect essays and narratives that engage thoughtfully with \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, framing cultural criticism alongside broader political and social themes. Musil’s texts challenge conventional perspectives, offering profound insights into the human condition and the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"literature-and-politics-by-robert-musil-9781916809611","title":"Literature and Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitics is will and not truth. A very primitive formulation, but rich in consequences.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Musil was keenly aware of literature's vulnerability to what he called \"the over-reach and encroachment of politics\", but he was also an acute observer of the ways in which literature and politics interact. \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e presents Musil's writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on current events, Musil charted the increasing dangers posed to artists and intellectuals by projects of ideological conscription, as well as the broader threats posed by nationalism and other extreme forms of collectivism. His political thinking was unfailingly supple and nuanced, but at its heart was a passionate belief in the rich and irreducible nature of individual creative work as the bulwark of a free, ethical, and pluralistic society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe main texts are translated by Genese Grill and Klaus Amann provides an invaluable introduction to Musil's political thought, while Philip Payne introduces Musil's \"On Stupidity\" (which he has also translated into English).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486605787372,"sku":"9781916809611","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3c77ce36175b2cbfba8dc21e60633f4e.jpg?v=1775779331"},{"product_id":"precision-and-soul-by-robert-musil-9780226554099","title":"Precision and Soul","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul.\"—Robert Musil\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBest known as the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Man without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eYoung Törless\u003c\/i\u003e, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of \u003ci\u003eThe Man without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Man without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e forthcoming... amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories.\"—Joseph Coates, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time... He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett.\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul—the matter of life and art.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597530808556,"sku":"9780226554099","price":70.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e3761be438d30ab501d7d22c87c833d1.jpg?v=1777957987"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/robert-musil.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}