Ocupation: Writer
Life: November 1, 1886 - May 30, 1951
Birthday: November 1
Death: May 30
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.
source: Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.887, Vintage
topic: Men, Style, Individual, Liberated