Quote by Hermann Broch on Autonomy and Values

„The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.“

Hermann BrochPhilosophical quote by Hermann Broch on autonomy, dissolution of values, and the metaphysical isolation of the individual.
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Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer and intellectual, known for his philosophical novels and profound analyses of the human psyche.

Philosophical reflection on the isolation of the individual through autonomy and the dissolution of values.


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Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an important Austrian writer, best known for his novels "The Sleepwalkers" and "The Death of Virgil". His works are characterized by deep engagement with existential questions and societal upheavals. Broch was also a philosopher and social critic who fled Nazi persecution to the USA, where he continued his literary and intellectual work.

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