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Cover Title page Introduction Contents Part I: A Sort of Introduction

1. From which, remarkably enough, nothing develops 2. House and home of the man without qualities 3. Even a man without qualities has a father with qualities 4. If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility 5. Ulrich 6. Leona, or a change in viewpoint 7. In a weak moment Ulrich acquires a new mistress 8. Kakania 9. The first of three attempts to become a great man 10. The second attempt. Notes toward a morality for the man without qualities 11. The most important attempt of all 12. The lady whose love Ulrich won after a conversation about sports and mysticism 13. A racehorse of genius crystallizes the recognition of being a man without qualities 14. Boyhood friends 15. Cultural revolution 16. A mysterious malady of the times 17. Effect of a man without qualities on a man with qualities 18. Moosbrugger 19. A letter of admonition and a chance to acquire qualities. Rivalry of two accessions to the throne

Part II: Pseudoreality Prevails

20. A touch of reality. In spite of the absence of qualities, Ulrich takes resolute and spirited action 21. The real invention of the Parallel Campaign by Count Leinsdorf 22. The Parallel Campaign, in the form of an influential lady of ineffable spiritual grace, stands ready to devour Ulrich 23. A great man’s initial intervention 24. Capital and culture. Diotima’s friendship with Count Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished visitors into accord with the soul 25. Sufferings of a married soul 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 27. Nature and substance of a great idea 28. A chapter that may be skipped by anyone not particularly impressed by thinking as an occupation 29. Explanation and disruptions of a normal state of awareness 30. Ulrich hears voices 31. Whose side are you on? 32. The forgotten, highly relevant story of the major’s wife 33. Breaking with Bonadea 34. A hot flash and chilled walls 35. Bank Director Leo Fischel and the Principle of Insufficient Cause 36. Thanks to the above-mentioned Principle the Parallel Campaign becomes a tangible reality before anyone knows what it is 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 38. Clarisse and her demons 39. A man without qualities consists of qualities without a man 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 41. Rachel and Diotima 42. The great session 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 44. Continuation and conclusion of the great session. Ulrich takes a liking to Rachel, and Rachel to Soliman. The Parallel Campaign gets organized 45. Silent encounter of two mountain peaks 46. Ideals and morality are the best means for filling that big hole called soul 47. What all others are separately, Arnheim is rolled into one 48. The three causes of Arnheim’s fame and the Mystery of the Whole 49. Antagonism sprouts between the old and the new diplomacy 50. Further developments. Section Chief Tuzzi decides to inform himself about Arnheim 51. The House of Fischel 52. Section Chief Tuzzi finds a blind spot in the workings of his ministry 53. Moosbrugger is moved to another prison 54. In conversation with Walter and Clarisse, Ulrich turns out to be reactionary 55. Soliman and Arnheim 56. The Parallel Campaign committees seethe with activity. Clarisse writes to His Grace proposing a Nietzsche Year 57. Great upsurge. Diotima discovers the strange ways of great ideas 58. Qualms about the Parallel Campaign. But in the history of mankind there is no voluntary turning back 59. Moosbrugger reflects 60. Excursion into the realm of logic and morals 61. The ideal of the three treatises, or the utopia of exact living 62. The earth too, but especially Ulrich, pays homage to the utopia of essayism 63. Bonadea has a vision 64. General Stumm von Bordwehr visits Diotima 65. From the conversations between Arnheim and Diotima 66. All is not well between Ulrich and Arnheim 67. Diotima and Ulrich 68. A digression: Must people be in accord with their bodies? 69. Diotima and Ulrich, continued 70. Clarisse visits Ulrich to tell him a story 71. The committee to draft guidelines for His Majesty’s Seventieth Jubilee Celebration opens its first session 72. Science smiling into its beard, or a first full-dress encounter with Evil 73. Leo Fischel’s daughter Gerda 74. The fourth century B.C. versus the year 1797. Ulrich receives another letter from his father 75. General Stumm von Bordwehr considers visits to Diotima as a delightful change from his usual run of duty 76. Count Leinsdorf has his doubts 77. Arnheim as the darling of the press 78. Diotima’s metamorphoses 79. Soliman in love 80. Getting to know General Stumm, who turns up unaccountably at the Council 81. Count Leinsdorf’s views of realpolitik. Ulrich fosters organizations 82. Clarisse calls for an Ulrich Year 83. Pseudoreality prevails; or, Why don’t we make history up as we go along? 84. Assertion that ordinary life, too, is utopian 85. General Stumm tries to bring some order into the civilian mind 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 87. Moosbrugger dances 88. On being involved with matters of consequence 89. One must move with the times 90. Dethroning the ideocracy 91. Speculations on the intellectual bull and bear market 92. Some of the rules governing the lives of the rich 93. Even through physical culture it is hard to get a hold on the civilian mind 94. Diotima’s nights 95. The Great Man of Letters: rear view 96. The Great Man of Letters: front view 97. Clarisse’s mysterious powers and missions 98. From a country that came to grief because of a defect in language 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 100. General Stumm invades the State Library and learns about the world of books, the librarians guarding it, and intellectual order 101. Cousins in conflict 102. Love and war among the Fischels 103. The temptation 104. Rachel and Soliman on the warpath 105. Love on the highest level is no joke 106. Does modern man believe in God or in the Head of the Worldwide Corporation? Arnheim wavering 107. Count Leinsdorf achieves an unexpected political success 108. The unredeemed nationalities and General Stumm’s reflections about the terminology of redemption 109. Bonadea, Kakania; systems of happiness and balance 110. Moosbrugger dissolved and preserved 111. To the legal mind, insanity is an all-or-nothing proposition 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 113. Ulrich chats with Hans Sepp and Gerda in the jargon of the frontier between the superrational and the subrational 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 115. The tip of your breast is like a poppy leaf 116. The two Trees of Life and a proposal to establish a General Secretariat for Precision and Soul 117. A dark day for Rachel 118. So kill him! 119. A countermine and a seduction 120. The Parallel Campaign causes a stir 121. Talking man-to-man 122. Going home 123. The turning point

Part III: Into the Millennium (The Criminals)

124. The forgotten sister 125. Confidences 126. Start of a new day in a house of mourning 127. Old acquaintance 128. They do wrong 129. The old gentleman is finally left in peace 130. A letter from Clarisse arrives 131. A family of two 132. Agathe when she can’t talk to Ulrich 133. Further course of the excursion to the Swedish Ramparts. The morality of the Next Step 134. Holy discourse: Beginning 135. Holy discourse: Erratic progress 136. Ulrich returns and learns from the General what he has missed 137. What’s new with Walter and Clarisse. A showman and his spectators 138. The testament 139. Reunion with Diotima’s diplomatic husband 140. Diotima has changed the books she reads 141. Problems of a moralist with a letter to write 142. Onward to Moosbrugger 143. Count Leinsdorf has qualms about “capital and culture” 144. Cast all thou has into the fire, even unto thy shoes 145. From Koniatowski’s critique of Danielli’s theorem to the Fall of Man. From the Fall of Man to the emotional riddle posed by a man’s sister 146. Bonadea; or, The relapse 147. Agathe actually arrives 148. The Siamese twins 149. Spring in the vegetable garden 150. Agathe is quickly discovered as a social asset by General Stumm 151. Too much gaiety 152. Professor Hagauer takes pen in hand 153. Ulrich and Agathe look for a reason after the fact 154. Agathe wants to commit suicide and makes a gentleman’s acquaintance 155. The General meanwhile takes Ulrich and Clarisse to the madhouse 156. The lunatics greet Clarisse 157. A great event is in the making. Count Leinsdorf and the Inn River 158. A great event is in the making. Privy Councillor Meseritscher 159. A great event is in the making. Meeting some old acquaintances 160. A comparison 161. A great event is in the making. But no one has noticed

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