Philosophy, Literature, and the Dissolution of the Subject: Nietzsche, Musil, Atay (Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas)

By Zeynep Talay-Turner

If philosophy has limits, what lies past them? One resolution is literature. during this examine, instead of seeing literature as a resource of illustrations of philosophical issues, the writer considers either philosophy and literature as occasionally competing yet usually complementary methods of constructing experience of and conveying the nature of moral adventure. She does so via an research of rules approximately language, adventure and ethics within the philosophy of Nietzsche, and of how during which those subject matters are labored out and elaborated within the writings of Robert Musil and the Turkish novelist Oğuz Atay.

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We think we've got dived to the uttermost depths of the abyss, and but after we go back to the outside the drop of water on our pallid fingertips not resembles the ocean from which it got here. we predict we've chanced on a hoard of amazing treasure-trove, but after we emerge back into the sunshine of day we see that every one that we have got introduced again with us is fake stones and chips of glass. yet for all this, the treasure is going on glimmering within the darkness, unchanged. Musil the author didn't pick out silence, relatively, his activity was once to invent the interior individual, to discover the ineffable features of moral event in addition to the moral and aesthetical hyperlink among the 2 stipulations via his global of similes, services, and unfixed values. His novellas and tales don't let the reader to pause at one note or sentence: the photographs flow regularly. but they can't be skated over both. 607 Luft, hindrance, p. ninety three 608 Luft, main issue, p. ninety three 609 A comparability with Kafka indicates itself even though it can't be explored the following: Musil reworks and multiplies adjectives, whereas Kafka abandons using them. yet as Luft indicates, the consequences completed by means of either writers aren't so various, in that Musil’s multiplication of them is driven as far as to volume to a suspension. 178 Musil doesn't unravel or try and unravel the matter of fact, a job that will be in useless. Musil will not be the single one that emphasises this yet few were as real to the assumption. within the following chapters we flip to a different writer, Oğuz Atay, who could be thought of a candidate for the sort of name. Oğuz Atay’s The Disconnected, just like the guy with out features and Törless, focuses on/problematises the subject matter of the dissolution of the topic; correspondingly, it's a ebook approximately language in its war of words with the ineffable. Written in 1968 and released in 1971, The Disconnected will be considered as an avant-garde novel that breaks with the realism that used to be authorized by means of nearly all of Turkish critics and authors at the moment. the most approach during which it achieves this holiday is that, rather than looking to enlighten and tell, or maybe to entertain, humans, it handles the internal conflicts of people. The Disconnected has been defined as a singular ‘which has became its again at the realism of the nineteenth century, with one foot in modernism and the opposite in post-modernism. ’610 It used to be acknowledged that ‘…Atay broke the literary taboos of the Nineteen Seventies cultural milieu in Turkey, shattered the slim frames of debate in regards to the makes use of of artwork, and allowed the Turkish language to discover the probabilities of expressing the misery of contemporary life. ’611 As within the guy with out characteristics, the radical offers with the internal states and conflicts of the most characters, and it's tricky to stipulate its ‘external’ narrative. there's little ‘action’. Like Musil, Atay implies a critique of the trendy structure of the ‘self’ and the social order of his time. Like Musil, he was once an in depth reader of Nietzsche. yet he used to be a willing reader of Musil in addition.

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