The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails

The Man Without Qualities......Page 1
Part 1 - A Sort of Introduction......Page 12
1 From which, remarkably enough, nothing develops......Page 13
2 House and home of the man without qualities......Page 16
3 Even a man without qualities has a father with qualities......Page 18
4 If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility......Page 20
5 Ulrich......Page 23
6 Leona, or a change in viewpoint......Page 26
7 In a weak moment Ulrich acquires a new mistress......Page 31
8 Kakania......Page 36
9 The first of three attempts to become a great man......Page 41
10 The second attempt. Notes toward a morality for the man without qualities......Page 43
11 The most important attempt of all......Page 45
12 The lady whose love Ulrich won after a conversation about sports and mysticism......Page 48
13 A racehorse of genius crystallizes the recognition of being a man without qualities......Page 51
14 Boyhood friends......Page 55
15 Cultural revolution......Page 62
16 A mysterious malady of the times......Page 64
17 Effect of a man without qualities on a man with qualities......Page 68
18 Moosbrugger......Page 77
19 A letter of admonition and a chance to acquire qualities. Rivalry of two accessions to the throne......Page 87
Part 2  - Pseudoreality Prevails......Page 91
20 A touch of reality. In spite of the absence of qualities, Ulrich takes resolute and spirited action......Page 92
21 The real invention of the Parallel Campaign by Count Leinsdorf......Page 96
22 The Parallel Campaign, in the form of an influential lady of ineffable spiritual grace, stands ready to devour Ulrich......Page 102
23 A great man\'s initial intervention......Page 106
24 Capital and culture. Diotima\'s friendship with Count Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished visitors into accord with the soul......Page 109
25 Sufferings of a married soul......Page 115
26 The union of soul and economics. The man who can accomplish this wants to enjoy the baroque charm of Old Austrian culture. And so an idea for the Parallel Campaign is born......Page 119
27 Nature and substance of a great idea......Page 122
28 A chapter that may be skipped by anyone not particularly impressed by thinking as an occupation......Page 124
29 Explanation and disruptions of a normal state of awareness......Page 127
30 Ulrich hears voices......Page 131
31 Whose side are you on?......Page 132
32 The forgotten, highly relevant story of the major\'s wife......Page 135
33 Breaking with Bonadea......Page 141
34 A hot flash and chilled walls......Page 143
35 Bank Director Leo Fischel and the Principle of Insufficient Cause......Page 148
36 Thanks to the above-mentioned Principle the Parallel Campaign becomes a tangible reality before anyone knows what it is......Page 150
37 By launching the slogan \'Year of Austria,\' a journalist makes a lot of trouble for Count Leinsdorf, who issues a frantic call for Ulrich......Page 154
38 Clarisse and her demons......Page 159
39 A man without qualities consists of qualities without a man......Page 165
40 A man with all the qualities, but he is indifferent to them. A prince of intellect is arrested, and the Parallel Campaign gets its Honorary Secretary......Page 168
41 Rachel and Diotima......Page 181
42 The great session......Page 186
43 Ulrich meets the great man for the first time. Nothing irrational happens in world history, but Diotima claims that the True Austria is the whole world......Page 193
44 Continuation and conclusion of the great session. Ulrich takes a liking to Rachel, and Rachel to Soliman. The Parallel Campaign gets organized......Page 198
45 Silent encounter of two mountain peaks......Page 203
46 Ideals and morality are the best means for filling that big hole called soul......Page 207
47 What all others are separately, Arnheim is rolled into one......Page 210
48 The three causes of Arnheim\'s fame and the Mystery of the Whole......Page 212
49 Antagonism sprouts between the old and the new diplomacy......Page 217
50 Further developments. Section Chief Tuzzi decides to inform himself about Arnheim......Page 222
51 The House of Fischel......Page 226
52 Section Chief Tuzzi finds a blind spot in the workings of his ministry......Page 232
53 Moosbrugger is moved to another prison......Page 236
54 In conversation with Walter and Clarisse, Ulrich turns out to be reactionary......Page 238
55 Soliman and Amheim......Page 245
56 The Parallel Campaign committees seethe with activity. Clarisse writes to His Grace proposing a Nietzsche Year......Page 249
57 Great upsurge. Diotima discovers the strange ways of great ideas......Page 253
58 Qualms about the Parallel Campaign. But in the history of mankind there is no voluntary turning back......Page 258
59 Moosbrugger reflects......Page 262
60 Excursion into the realm of logicand morals......Page 270
61 The ideal of the three treatises, or the utopia of exact living......Page 272
62 The earth too, but especially Ulrich, pays homage to the utopia of essayism......Page 276
63 Bonadea has a vision......Page 287
64 General Stumm von Bordwehr visits Diotima......Page 297
65 From the conversations between Arnheim and Diotima......Page 299
66 All is not well between Ulrich and Arnheim......Page 302
67 Diotima and Ulrich......Page 307
68 A digression: Must people be in accord with their bodies?......Page 315
69 Diotima and Ulrich, continued......Page 318
70 Clarisse visits Ulrich to tell him a story......Page 323
71 The committee to draft guidelines for His Majesty\'s Seventieth Jubilee Celebration opens its first session......Page 328
72 Science smiling into its beard, or a first full-dress encounter with Evil......Page 334
73 Leo Fischel\'s daughter Gerda......Page 341
74 The fourth century B.C. versus the year 1797. Ulrich receives another letter from his father......Page 350
75 General Stumm von Bordwehr considers visits to Diotima as a delightful change from his usual run of duty......Page 355
76 Count Leinsdorf has his doubts......Page 357
77 Arnheim as the darling of the press......Page 360
78 Diotima\'s metamorphoses......Page 364
79 Soliman in love......Page 372
80 Getting to know General Stumm, who turns up unaccountably at the Council......Page 377
81 Count Leinsdorf\'s views of realpolitik. Ulrich fosters organizations......Page 384
82 Clarisse-calls for an Ulrich Year......Page 390
83 Pseudoreality prevails; Or, Why don\'t we make history up as we go along?......Page 397
84 Assertion that ordinary life, too, is utopian......Page 403
85 General Stumm tries to bring some order into the civilian mind......Page 410
86 The industrial potentate and the merger of Soul with Business. Also, All roads to the mind start from the soul, but none lead back again......Page 422
87 Moosbrugger dances......Page 435
88 On being involved with matters of consequence......Page 441
89 One must move with the times......Page 443
90 Dethroning the ideocracy......Page 450
91 Speculations on the intellectual bull and bear market......Page 454
92 Some ofthe rules governing the lives of the rich......Page 464
93 Even through physical culture it is hard to get a hold on the civilian mind......Page 467
94 Diotima\'s nights......Page 469
95 The Great Man of Letters: rear view......Page 474
96 The Great Man of Letters: front view......Page 479
97 Clarisse\'s mysterious powers and missions......Page 482
98 From a country that came to grief because of a defect in language......Page 493
99 Of the middling intelligence and its fruitful counterpart, the halfwit; the resemblance between two eras; lovable Aunt Jane; and the disorder called Modern Times......Page 502
100 General Stumm invades the State Library and learns about the world of books, the librarians guarding it, and intellectual order......Page 509
101 Cousins in conflict......Page 515
102 Love and war among the Fischels......Page 529
103 The temptation......Page 539
104 Rachel andSoliman on the warpath......Page 549
105 Love on the highest level is no joke......Page 555
106 Does modem man believe in God or in the Head of the Worldwide Corporation? Amheim wavering......Page 560
107 Count Leinsdorf achieves an unexpected political success......Page 567
108 The unredeemed nationalities and General Stumm\'s reflections about the terminology of redemption......Page 573
109 Bonadea, Kakania; systems of happiness and balance......Page 578
110 Moosbrugger dissolved and preserved......Page 587
111 To the legal mind, insanity is an all-or-nothing proposition......Page 592
112 Arnheim sets his father, Samuel, among the gods and decides to get Ulrich into his power. Soliman wants to find out more about his own royal father......Page 597
113 Ulrich chats with Hans Sepp and Gerda in the jargon of the frontier between the superrational and the subrational......Page 608
114 Things are coming to a boil. Arnheim is gracious to General Stumm. Diotima prepares to move off into infinity. Ulrich daydreams about living one\'s life as one reads a book......Page 624
115 The tip of your breast is like a poppy leaf......Page 637
116 The two Trees of Life and a proposal to \'establish a General Secretariat for Precision and Soul......Page 645
117 A dark day for Rachel......Page 664
118 So kill him!......Page 669
119 A countermine and a seduction......Page 681
120 The Parallel Campaign causes a stir......Page 690
121 Talking man-to-man......Page 700
122 Going home......Page 715
123 The turning point......Page 722