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Journal Article
The Subject before the Law: On Robert Musil's broken fiction and narrative humanism within the law
2013
Overview
In this article, I will discuss the concept of narration, its role within a legal context, and the relation between narration and anti-narration in Robert Musil's modernist experiment,
. I will argue that, through the portrayal of Moosbrugger, Musil's aim is to show that the rationality of the legal system is based on false narrations, which prevent us from understanding living reality. I will further discuss the interest of the Moosbrugger case within the novel, and discuss whether Moosbrugger is to be seen as a Dionysian hero or a possibilitist. In the final section, I will argue that Moosbrugger can be seen as a
, as defined by Giorgio Agamben, and that it is due to this position that he is able to question our presuppositions about the criminal.
