The Passion for Precision: Robert Musil and Philosophy

Robert Musil is the thinker with whom Jacques Bouveresse felt the closest kinship. Why was he so drawn to a writer whose intellectual project significantly diverges from traditional philosophical thought? This attraction might be seen as a rebellious stance and an embodiment of a nonconformist philosophy. Bouveresse found a kindred spirit in this untimely, dissident writer, whose marginality was both endured and embraced. Musil defended ideas that went against the prevailing irrationalism of his time, charting an independent course.