28 Age of Anxiety KEY TERMS

Question 1

logical empiricism

Answer 1

rejected most of the concerns of traditional philosophy/ existence of God/ meaning of happiness

Question 2

existentialism

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existential thinkers were loosely united in search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty; first seen in Germany 1920s

Question 3

Nietzsche

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proclaimed the death of God

Question 4

popular existentialists

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Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

Question 5

Søren Kierkegaard

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1813-1855 rejected formalistic religion; stressed human being’s sinful nature and needing God’s forgiveness

Question 6

Max Planck

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in 1900 showed that subatomic energy is emitted into uneven little spurts (quanta)

Question 7

Marie Curie

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Her and French husband Pierre discovered that radium constantly emits subatomic particles and does not have constant atomic weight

Question 8

Albert Einstein

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famous theory of special relativity postulated that time and space are relative and speed of light is constant to the universe

Question 9

Sigmund Freud

Answer 9

human behavior is basically irrational

Question 10

id

Answer 10

the primitive, irrational unconscious driven by sexual, aggressive, and pleasure seeking desires and is locked in a constant battle with other parts of the mind

Question 11

ego

Answer 11

mediates what a person CAN do

Question 12

superego

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ingrained moral values which specify what a person SHOULD do

Question 13

After first world war, freud psychology influenced…

Answer 13

encouraging growing sexual experimentation, particularly among middle-class women

Question 14

stream-of-consciousness technique

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used to explore the psyche

Question 15

William Faulkner

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1897-1962 Americas greatest 20th century novelist using stream-of-consciousness technique

Question 16

Bauhaus

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brought together many leading modern architects, designers and theatrical innovators (example is Frank Lloyd Wright in the US)

Question 17

Dadaism

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attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior, example: Leonardo De Vinci’s Mona Lisa; attracted to surrealism

Question 18

Dawes Plan 1924

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Germany would get private loans from the US and pay reparations to France and Britain

Question 19

Mein Kampf

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Hitler wrote it about his theories and ideas

Question 20

WPA

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workers progress administration in 1935 constructing public buildings, bridges, and highways

Question 21

Social Democrat

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became largest party in Sweden and Norway after the First World War in the 1920s