Implosionen des Geredes. Robert Musils 'Mann ohne Eigenschaften' und Martin Heideggers 'Sein und Zeit' vor der Erfahrung des modernen In-der-Welt-Seins (German text)

This thesis analyzes Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities and compares it with Martin Heidegger's main work, Being and Time. The analysis reflects on the similarities between the two writers' concerns about the rational and creative use of human potential. Musil's irony, the succinctness of his formulations, and the accuracy and depth of his insights invite comparison with Heidegger's topics such as "man" or "Gerede".; Seen in this way, The Man without Qualities presents a brilliant satire - the "Parallelaktion" - and is thus an outstanding comic invention, which is not only an inventory of what civilization offered Musil's contemporaries, but also a reminder of what it denied them. As a reading of the book, this shows how the substance of the subject has been lost, which ties in with further Heideggerian concepts and gives rise to the idea of the peculiar impossibility of grasping a concept of being.