Contending visions of universality, from Kantian common sense to the doctrine of human rights. Can a constellation of singularities emerge within the standardization envisaged by globalized production? Prompts from Musil, Gursky and the carpet-weavers of Kuyan-Bulak.
Stefan Jonsson on Karl Corino, Robert Musil: Eine Biographie. Correspondences between The Man Without Qualities and the turbulent life and times of its creator, in a definitive new German biography.