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(2001) Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930, Dordrecht, Springer.
Mach appears to have exercised a measurable influence on the Austrian Robert Musil (1880–1942). This seems most conspicuous in Musil's doctoral dissertation on Mach which was titled in its final published form: Beitrag zur Beurteilung der Lehren Machs, Wilmersdorf, 1908. But it is possible that the influence was deeper in parts of the later work which made Musil famous: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 3 volumes, 1930, 1933, & 1943. This book is an ironic and satirical commentary on the very last years of the Habsburg Monarchy as presented in a clear, unsentimental, and analytic manner, which in a stylistic way could almost be called "scientific".
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9690-9_9
Full citation:
Imai, M. (2001)., Musil between Mach and Stumpf, in J. Blackmore & S. Tanaka (eds.), Ernst Mach's Vienna 1895–1930, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 187-209.