A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the "two cultures."

Preface
Introduction: Musil's Intellectual Position
The Question of Science
Musil, Ernst Mach, and the Problem of Causality
Musil's Theory of Vision
The Essays
Modernity's Crisis
Musil's Concept of Value
Unions-"An episode of more than merely personal significance"
The Problem of Trust in The Man Without Qualities
Musil's Correspondence Project: The Man Without Qualities and The Blackbird
Conclusion: "A General Secretariat of Precision and Soul": Ethics, Knowledge, and Literature after the Fourth Revolution