Musil’s «On Stupidity». The Artistic and Ethical Uses of the Feminine Discursive
Robert Musil’s 1937 address «Über die Dummheit» navigated a challenging subject in a treacherous climate for free speech and simultaneously affirmed Musil’s conception of the necessary symbiosis of aesthetics and ethics. This paper argues for a reading of the address and its preparatory notes wherei...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Università degli Studi di Milano
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Studia austriaca |
| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/article/view/3023 |
| Summary: | Robert Musil’s 1937 address «Über die Dummheit» navigated a challenging subject in a treacherous climate for free speech and simultaneously affirmed Musil’s conception of the necessary symbiosis of aesthetics and ethics. This paper argues for a reading of the address and its preparatory notes wherein Musil’s gendered «Stupidity» (Die Dummheit) represents the ethical role of the artist, as poetic, non-conscripted voice – and, thus, of Musil himself – in a period of totalitarian brutality and linear «final solutions». |
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| ISSN: | 1593-2508 2385-2925 |