Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

by Robert Musil

Book Overview

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil

Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226554090
• ISBN13: 9780226554099
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"