"Age of Anxiety" Flashcards
manifesto of anarchism
syndicism
driven by sexual, agressive, and pleasure seeking desires by irrational people
ID
in his book ‘Thus Spake Zarathura’ he claimed God is Dead; critic of rationalism of the enlightenment
Nietzsche
convinced people that immediate experience is as important as rational and scientific thinking for understanding reality
Bergson
came up with syndicalism;; thought socialism would come to power through a strike of working people
Sorel
came up with ID; ; developed Freudian psychology
Freud
poet; spoke of ‘cruelly injured mind’
Valery
developed logical empiricism; part of the Vienna Circle
Wittgenstein
abstract concepts regarding God, freedom, etc. (intangible things); Only experiance is worth analyzing
Logical empircism
wrote the decline of the west
Spenger
considered the most famous epic poet of 20th century
T.S. Elliot
wrote powerful novel detailing the horrors of trench warfare; “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Remarque
portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by hostile and surreal forces
Kafka
saw life as absurd and having no meaning; atheist thought; individual has to find own meaning
existentalism
communist; thought life had no meaning and people simply existed
Sartre
wrote “The Fountainhead”, “We the Living”, and “Anthem”
Rand
Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies
Golding
wrote ‘Animal Farm’
Orwell
popularized after WWI; challenged but held ideas and led to uncertainty
“New Physics”
Quantum Theory
Max Planck
Theory of Relativity; e=mc2
Einstein
made ‘Principle of Uncertainty’; it’s impossible to predict somethings behavior
Heisenburg
demonstrated the atom could be split
Rutherford
broke sharply with the past in his design of the fagus shoe factory at Alfred, Germany; Clean, light, elegant building of glass and iron
Bauhaus movement
painted Guerinca; developed cubism; most important artist of 20th century
Picasso
sought to evoke emotion through non-figural painting; expressionist
Kandinsky
“Dada”; nonsensical word that mirrored a post-WWI world that no longer made sense
Dadism
leader of Dadism movement; got a urinal and called it ‘The Fountain’ painted a mostache on Mona Lisa ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’
Duchamp
influenced by Freud’s emphasis on dreams
Surrealism
came up with surrealism; most famous piece ‘Persistence of Memory’
Dali
most important composer of 20th century
Stravinsky
pioneered ‘12 Tone’ Technique
Schonberg
federal republic in Germany
Weimer Rebuplic
took control of government same day Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated; largest party in Germany Prior to war
Social Democratic Party
group of communist led by Luxemburg and Liebknecht; took control of Berlin for a week
Spartacists
right wing parliamentary groups that formed after the war; became vangaurd for anti-communist repression
Freikorps
treaty by which Germanys army was limited to 100,000 men and Germany was declared responsible for the war and had therefore to pay reparations equal to all civilian damages caused by the war
Treaty of Versailles
commonly known as the “Guilt Clause” or the “War Guilt Clause”, is the first article in Part VIII, “Reparations” of the Treaty of Versailles; blamed Germany
Article 231
wrote ‘Economic Consequences of the Peace’
Keynes
what conservatives saw the signing of the Treaty of Versailles as
“Stab in the back”
1923;was a response to the failure of the German Weimar Republic under Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I
Ruhr Crisis
Allies announced Germany had to pay $34 billion in ______
reparations
led France to occupy the industrial Ruhr region of Germany
Poincare
restored Germany to normal status in the European community with the Locarno Pact
Stresemann
Adolf Hitler and Nazi party failed to overthrow the state of Bavaria and Hitler was put in jail for one year
Beer Hall Putsch
League of Nations plan that restructured Germany’s debt with U.S. Loans to Germany to pay back Britain and France who likewise paid back U.S.
Dawes Plan
1928; Germany and other European nations agreed to settle all disagreements peacefully
Locarno Pact
1928;renounced war as ‘illegal’ except for self-defense ; signed by 62 nations but had no real enforcement mechanism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
- 1918; result of women’s contribution in war; parliament gave women over thirty right to vote
Representation of the People Act
support of miners who feared dramatic drop in their low wages swept the country
General Strike
rose as the champion of the working classes and of greater social equality
Labour Party
should Ireland be given autonomy independence
“Irish Question”
extremist faction that gained prominence in Ireland
Sinn Fein
an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation
Irish Republican Army
Irish free state; part of British Commonwealth
Northern Ireland
may have triggered U.S. depression thar spread world wide
Stock Market Crash
caused by stock market crash (1929-1933)
Great Depression
Franklin Roosevelt and US sought to reform capatilism
New Deal
developed by Keynes; used to prop up economy
Keynesian economis
a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science
Poincare
