Precision and Soul
Essays and Addresses
- Contents

Introduction
The Obscene and Pathological in Art
Novellas
Profile of a Program
Politics in Austria
The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics
On Robert Musil’s Books
Political Confessions of a Young Man
Moral Fruitfulness
The Mathematical Man
[On Criticism]
The Goals of Literature
[On the Essay]
Literary Chronicle
Commentary on a Metapsychics
Sketch of What the Writer Knows
[Psychology and Literature]
Cinema or Theater
Literati and Literature
Anschluss with Germany
Buridan’s Austrian
"Nation" as Ideal and as Reality
Helpless Europe
Mind and Experience
The German as Symptom
Toward a New Aesthetic
Woman Yesterday and Tomorrow
Ruminations of a Slow-witted Mind
Address at the Memorial Service for Rilke in Berlin
The Serious Writer in Our Time
[Lecture, Paris]
On Stupidity
Appendix A. Musil’s Sketch for an Introduction to a Planned Volume of Essays
Appendix B. Dates of First Publication
Notes
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages
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