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As Robert Musil once observed, an essay is an attempt, but it is an attempt that is qualified and determined. For Musil, the essay eschews conventional notions of true and false, wise and unwise, but it is nevertheless subject to laws that are no less strict than they appear to be delicate and ineffable (Musil, 1953/1995, p. 301). The essay, still according to Musil, therefore lingers somewhere between amor intellectualis and poetry.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

As Robert Musil once observed, an essay is an attempt, but it is an attempt that is qualified and determined. For Musil, the essay eschews conventional notions of true and false, wise and unwise, but it is nevertheless subject to laws that are no less strict than they appear to be delicate and ineffable (Musil, 1953/1995, p. 301). The essay, still according to Musil, therefore lingers somewhere between amor intellectualis and poetry.

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