Set in the isolated nation of Fizzle, the story explores a unique society grappling with constant crises. The citizens have cultivated an extraordinary mindset to navigate the challenges of their unconventional and backward environment, highlighting their resilience and adaptability.
Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of metaphysics rooted in Freges realism, the Austrian tradition of Brentano-Husserl-Meinong, and the early 20th century revolt against idealism embodied in writings of Moore and Russell and culminating in Wittgensteins Tractatus.
Seit Mitte der 1920er Jahre treten in Robert Musils Werk zunehmend ironische und kritische Töne auf. Sein Hauptwerk, der Roman 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' (1930-1932), präsentiert ein Panoptikum falscher Weltanschauungen, während der immer noch zu selten beachtete 'Nachlaß zu Lebzeiten' (1935/36) bissige Zeitdiagnose in satirischen Kurztexten versammelt. Die Autoren dieses Bandes folgen Musils kritischen und polemischen Denkanstößen und demonstrieren deren philosophische Relevanz. Dabei werden auch die kritische Rezeption Nietzsches und der Weltanschauungsphilosophie Mit Beiträgen von Bernhard Böschenstein, Jacques Bouveresse, Stéphane Gödicke, Villö Huszai, Stefan Imhoof, Patrizia Lombardo, Catrin Misselhorn, Dominik Müller, Kevin Mulligan, Philip Payne, Gerhard Schurz, Peter Utz, Florence Vatan, Armin Westerhoff.