age of anxiety ch 27

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the aftermath of ww1 created

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age of anxiety

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friedrich nietzsche

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blasted religion and claimed god is dead, only supermen could reorder the world

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henri bergson

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Convinced many young people that immediate experience and intuition were as important as rational and scientific thinking for understanding reality

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georges sorel

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syndicalism; believed socialism would come to power through a great violent strike of all working people

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sigmund freud

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freudian psychology; humans greedy irrational creatures; not rational

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paul valery

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poet who spoke of the cruelly injured mind

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logical empiricism

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took root in english speaking universities; developed by ludwig wittgenstein part of the vienna circle

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oswald spengler

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the decline of the west; every culture experience of a life cycle of growthand decline

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T.S eliot

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the waste land; depicted a world of growing desolation

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franz kafka

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portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by inexplicably hostile surreal forces

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erich maria remarque

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all quiet on the western front

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existentialism

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took root in continental countries after wwII ; saw life as absurd

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jean paul sartre

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wrote that life had no meaning and that humans simply exist

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albert camus

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indivudals had to find meaning to life by taking action against those things with which they disagree.

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george orwell

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famous for dystopian novels; animal farm

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ayn rand

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we are the living, anthem, the fountainhead

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new physics

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challenged long held ideas and led to uncertainty

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max planck

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developed basis for quantum physics

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albert einstein

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theory of relativity

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ernest rutherford

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atom can be split

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werner heisenberg

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principle of uncertainty

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walter gropius

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bauhaus movement

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pablo picasso

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cubism, guernica

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dadaism

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attacked all new art behaviors; marcel duchamp

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surrealism

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salvador dali

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charlie chaplin

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king of silver screen

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guglielmo marconi

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developed transatlantic wireless communication

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bbc

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radio became used effectively for political propoganda