The Man without Qualities

Review Morris Berman has a marvelous comic sense of America's intersecting neuroses, and the scary place that they are taking us. He's a Voltaire for our shaky time and this is his Candide.    -- James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and the World Made By Hand novelsIn The Man Without Qualities, renowned historical and cultural critic, Morris Berman, delves into the complex topic of authenticity with humor, warmth and crisp prose. HIs protagonist, George, is a German lit professor who is bored with his life and especially with his unengaged students. Leaving academia behind, George embarks on a singular mission, to launch the Dullness Institute, in defiance of all that is endlessly competitive,needlessly greed-driven, and generally fake in the world. To be dull, for George, is to shun the need to "project" and rather, to just "be." In doing so, the impact of George's vision and that of his colorful collective of like-minded friends and eventually millions of people, alter the course of humanity.  Berman's novel shines a skeptical light on how we are evolving and shows us a better, more authentic path.    --Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage, All the Presidents'Bankers, and other worksAs much a work of philosophy as a novel, Morris Berman's The Man Without Qualities offers a new political orientation--None of the Above. In the aftermath of politics as usual, partisans of Berman's Dullness Institute can at last give a hearty Nietzschean laugh and say, "Workers of the World!...Relax!"    --Curtis White, author of We, Robots, The Science Delusion, The Middlemind, and Memories of My Father Watching Television About the Author

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