"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 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...