The Age Of Anxiety Flashcards by Marisa Koster

German philosopher 
Religion = slave morality 
Rejected Christianity, reason, progress
"God is dead"
Only hope was for humans to accept meaningless of life

Friedrich Nietzsche

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French poet and critic

Saw the mind as “cruelly injured” from doubts and suffering from anxieties

Paul Valéry

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French philosophy professor

Believed immediate response and intuition were important to understanding reality

Henri Bergson

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French socialist
Characterized Marxian socialism as a religion
Rejected democracy
Wanted new socialist society led by revolutionary elites

Georges Sorel

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Rejected traditional philosophy
Saw God, freedom, and morality as senseless and a waste of time
Religion and moral are personal preference

Logical empiricism

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Austrian philosopher
Wrote Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Philosophy is only logical clarification of thoughts and is a study of language
“Of what one cannot speak, of that one must remain silent”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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God, reason, and progress are myths

People are defined by their actions and are responsible for their own behavior

Existentialism

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French existentialist
Believed humans simply existed
There was no god to help humans

Jean-Paul Sartre

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German existentialists

Martin Heidegger and Karl Jasper’s

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French existentialist
Very influential
Wrote “The Stranger”

Albert Camus

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Stressed humans sinful nature, the need for faith, and the mystery of Gods forgiveness

Christian existentialists

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Danish religious philosopher
Rejected formal religion
Committed to a remote and majestic God

Soren Kierkegaard

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Swiss Protestant theologian
Human beings are sinful and imperfect
Their reason and will are flawed
Religious truth is given by the grace of God
You must accept Jesus with awe, trust, and obedience

Karl Barth

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Religion provided hope, humanity, honesty, and piety for humans
Denounced anti-Semitism
Catholicism is tainted with absurd superstitions

Gabriel Marcel

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Polish born physicist

Discovered radium and how it constantly emits subatomic particles and doesn’t have a constant atomic weight

Marie Curie

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“One began to believe in heaven because one believed in hell”

Graham Greene

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German physicist

Subatomic energy is emitted in uneven little spurts called quanta

Max Planck

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German-Jewish
Time and space are relative to the viewpoint of the observer and only the speed of light is constant
Matter and energy are interchangeable

Albert Einstein

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Atom could be split
Neutron
Seven subatomic particles
Research towards atomic bomb

Ernest Rutherford

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Principle of uncertainty

It’s impossible to know position and speed of an electron and impossible to predict it’s behavior

Werner Heisenberg

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Human behavior is irrational

Behavior is a compromise between instinctual drives and controls of rational thinking and morals

Signings Freud

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Primitive, irrational unconscious

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Rationalizing conscious that tells what a person can do

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Ego

Moral values that tell what a person should do

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Superego

French novelist | Wrote semi autobiographical "Remembrance of Things Past"

Marcel Proust

Wrote "Jacobs Room" using stream-of-consciousness technique | About a psychology patient

Virginia Woolf

Used stream-of-conscious technique | Wrote "The Sound of Fury" as a novel seen through the eyes of an idiot

William Faulkner

Irish novelist Wrote "Ulysses" as a parallel between an Irish man and Homers Ulysses Written as a riddle

James Joyce

German high school teacher Wrote "the Decline of the West" Believed the west will be ended soon by a conquest of the yellow race

Oswald Spengler

Wrote "The Waste Land" Saw a world of growing desolation Converted to Anglo-Catholicism and came to hope for salvation

T. S. Eliot

German-Jewish Wrote "The Trial" and "The Castle" Saw humans being crushed by hostile forces

Franz Kafka

Wrote futuristic book called "1984" | Saw future as totalitarian state led by a harsh dictator

George Orwell

Constant experimentation and a search for new kinds of expression

Modernism

Buildings should be functional | No use for decorative architecture

Functionalism

Leader of Chicago school of architects | Used cheap steel, reinforced concrete, and electric elevators

Louis H Sullivan

Built a series of radically new and modern houses with mass produced material

Frank Lloyd Wright

Built a modern shoe factory Alfeld, Germany | Merged school of fine arts and applied arts into one school at Weimar called Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

School that combined painting and sculpture with printing, weaving, and furniture making

Bauhaus

Second director of the Bauhaus | Built Lake Shore apartments in Chicago with steel frame and glass walls

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Capturing of the momentary overall feeling of light falling on a scene before oneself

Impressionism

Impressionists

Monet, Renoir, and Pissaro

Fascination with form | Abstract, non representational characters showing emotions

Post impressionism or expressionism

Painted "Starry Night" Post impressionist Painted moving vision of his minds eye

Vincent Van Gogh

French stockbroker turned painter Used expressionist technique to infuse work with tranquility and mysticism Believed form and design were important themselves Painters did not need to represent objects

Paul Gaugin

Expressionist Committed to form and design Increasingly abstract work Two dimensional

Paul Cézanne

Painted "les Fauves" Concerned with arrangement of color, line, and form Led an expressionism group of painters

Henri Matisse

Cubism- complex geometry of zigzagging lines and sharp angles over overlapping planes

Pablo Picasso

Russian Turned away from nature completely Represented mood not objects

Wassily Kandinsky

Attack on all accepted art by using comical or abnormal subjects

Dadaism

Composed by Igor Stravinsky Preformed by Sergei Diaghilev's Russian dance company Earthly representation of lovemaking

The Rite of Spring

Created by Alban Berg Half sung half spoken dialogue with harsh music Take about a soldier driven to kill

Wozzeck

Abandoned traditional harmony Independent and unrelated music notes Used twelve note music with abstract mathematical pattern

Arnold Schönberg

Famous Actors

Rudolf Valentino, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish

King of "silver screen" | Portrayed the "Great Dictator"

Charlie Chaplan

The Age Of Anxiety Flashcards

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