Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch
Hermann Brochwas a 20th-century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 November 1886
CountryGermany
mad insane gone
Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
world gone madness
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
kitsch goddess
The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.
kitsch ethical aesthetic
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
reality kitsch doe
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.
crazy quality kitsch
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
world kitsch novel
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be...
beautiful essence confusion
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
rome ideas age
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'
hate men wish
Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves
lying hatred strive
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .
men style individual
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.
art evil negative
The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.
soul impression deceased
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.