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Kantian Meditations on the Experience of Modernity

Robert Musil "did not think in terms of crisis, rather in terms of potential and perplexity," Dagmar Barnouw notes in passing in her book on the intellectual debates of the interwar period, thereby emphasizing what distinguishes the Viennese intellectual and novelist from many of his contemporaries.¹ Musil's insight that the loss of ethical, political, and moral certainties is not only a temporary deficit of his own time but a general condition of human conduct might explain the attraction that his thought and literary texts hold for us today. Patrizia C. McBride's compelling new study, The Void of Ethics: Robert Musil...