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Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Volume 6, 1975 - Issue 1
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Robert Musil and Phenomenological Psychology: An Examination of “The Man without Qualities”

Neil BoltonUniversity of Durham
Pages 42-49 | Published online: 21 Oct 2014

  • Musil, R. The Man Without Qualities. 3 Vols. (London, Seeker and Warburg, 1954). Also published in paperback by Panther (London, 1968). The page references are to the paperback, henceforth MQ.
  • MQ Vol. 3, pp. 249–50.
  • MQ Vol. 2, p. 89.
  • MQ Vol. 3, p. 423.
  • Cofer, C. N., and Appley, M. H. Motivation: theory and research (New York, Wiley, 1964).
  • Cofer and Appley, p. 54.
  • Maslow, A. H. Motivation and Personality. (New York, Harper, 1954).
  • Rogers, C. R. Client-centered Therapy. (Boston, HHoughton-Mifflin, 1951).
  • Cofer and Appley, p. 692.
  • Cofer and Appley, p. 811.
  • See, e.g.,D. Graham. Moral Learning and Development. (London, Batsford, 1972) for an account of the various theories of moral development.
  • Piaget, J. The Moral Judgement of the Child. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1932).
  • Kohlberg, L. The development of children's orientations toward a moral order. 1. Sequence in the development of moral thought. Vita Humana, 1963, 6, 11–33.
  • Kelly, G. H. The Psychology of Personal Constructs. (New York, Norton, 1955).
  • The distinction between competence and performance is made by Chomsky (e.g. N. Chomsky, Language and Mind, New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1968).
  • Piaget, J. The Psychology of Intelligence. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950).
  • I have attempted to show (N. Bolton, The Psychology of Thinking, Methuen, 1972) that this general principle is evident in a number of theoretical perspectives, notably Piagetian psychology, S-R theory, information-processing approaches and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology.
  • Collingwood, R. G. Speculum Mentis (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1924, p. 248).
  • MQ Vol. 1, p. 359.
  • MQ Vol. 3, p. 100.
  • Berger, P. The Problem of Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz and Robert Musil. In M. Natanson (Ed.) Phenomenology and Social Reality. (The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1970).
  • Schutz, A. Collected Papers. (The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1964).
  • Klee, P. The Thinking Eye. (London, Lund Humphries, 1961).
  • Jaspers, K. General Psychopathology. 7th edn. (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1963).
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. The Phenomenology of Perception. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962).

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