Everyday transcendence? Robert Musil, William James, and mysticism by Robertson, R

“…Mystical experience in the form of ‘epiphanies' was described by the psychologist William James and explored by the novelist Robert Musil. In his novel The Man without Qualities, Musil proposes an approach to mysticism which captures the phenomenology of the experience and makes it available for scientific study without subjecting it to a religious, or any other, interpretation.…”

21F.013 Out of Ground Zero: Catastrophe and Memory, Fall 2002 by Scribner, Charity

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If this is a monument: artistic responses to a cultural form by Troensegaard, M

“…Chapter Two examines how writers from Charles Baudelaire to Robert Musil reflected on the ghostly qualities of the urban monument at the turn of the 20th century, while Surrealist artists launched repeated attacks on the monument in the journals of the 1920s and 1930s, employing the verbal and photographic weapons newly available to them. …”