28 Age of Anxiety KEY TERMS Flashcards
logical empiricism
rejected most of the concerns of traditional philosophy/ existence of God/ meaning of happiness
existentialism
existential thinkers were loosely united in search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty; first seen in Germany 1920s
Nietzsche
proclaimed the death of God
popular existentialists
Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus
Søren Kierkegaard
1813-1855 rejected formalistic religion; stressed human being’s sinful nature and needing God’s forgiveness
Max Planck
in 1900 showed that subatomic energy is emitted into uneven little spurts (quanta)
Marie Curie
Her and French husband Pierre discovered that radium constantly emits subatomic particles and does not have constant atomic weight
Albert Einstein
famous theory of special relativity postulated that time and space are relative and speed of light is constant to the universe
Sigmund Freud
human behavior is basically irrational
id
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
ego
mediates what a person CAN do
superego
ingrained moral values which specify what a person SHOULD do
After first world war, freud psychology influenced…
encouraging growing sexual experimentation, particularly among middle-class women
stream-of-consciousness technique
used to explore the psyche
William Faulkner
1897-1962 Americas greatest 20th century novelist using stream-of-consciousness technique
Bauhaus
brought together many leading modern architects, designers and theatrical innovators (example is Frank Lloyd Wright in the US)
Dadaism
attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior, example: Leonardo De Vinci’s Mona Lisa; attracted to surrealism
Dawes Plan 1924
Germany would get private loans from the US and pay reparations to France and Britain
Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote it about his theories and ideas
WPA
workers progress administration in 1935 constructing public buildings, bridges, and highways
Social Democrat
became largest party in Sweden and Norway after the First World War in the 1920s
