Robert Musil or the difficulties of an ethical life

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Austrian writer Robert Musil shares, with many of his lucid contemporaries, the disconfort resulting from the noting that the growing scientific and technical knowledge of civilization is not followed by an ability to react toward the problems of sense of Modernity. Musil is aware of the difficulties of the ethical sphere, specially of the tendency of liberalism and modern social thinking to ignore it, and so leaving way to irrationalism.