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

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French poet and critic

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

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Paul Valéry

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French philosophy professor

Believed immediate response and intuition were important to understanding reality

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Henri Bergson

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

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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

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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”

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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

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Existentialism

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

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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German existentialists

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Martin Heidegger and Karl Jasper’s

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French existentialist
Very influential
Wrote “The Stranger”

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Albert Camus

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

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Christian existentialists

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

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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

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Karl Barth

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

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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

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Marie Curie

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

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Graham Greene

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German physicist

Subatomic energy is emitted in uneven little spurts called quanta

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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

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Albert Einstein

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

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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

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Werner Heisenberg

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Human behavior is irrational

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

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Signings Freud

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Primitive, irrational unconscious

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Id

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Rationalizing conscious that tells what a person can do

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Ego

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Moral values that tell what a person should do

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Superego

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French novelist

Wrote semi autobiographical “Remembrance of Things Past”

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Marcel Proust

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Wrote “Jacobs Room” using stream-of-consciousness technique

About a psychology patient

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Virginia Woolf

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Used stream-of-conscious technique

Wrote “The Sound of Fury” as a novel seen through the eyes of an idiot

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William Faulkner

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

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James Joyce

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

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Oswald Spengler

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

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T. S. Eliot

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

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Franz Kafka

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Wrote futuristic book called “1984”

Saw future as totalitarian state led by a harsh dictator

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George Orwell

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Constant experimentation and a search for new kinds of expression

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Modernism

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Buildings should be functional

No use for decorative architecture

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Functionalism

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Leader of Chicago school of architects

Used cheap steel, reinforced concrete, and electric elevators

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Louis H Sullivan

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

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Built a modern shoe factory Alfeld, Germany

Merged school of fine arts and applied arts into one school at Weimar called Bauhaus

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Walter Gropius

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

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Bauhaus

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Second director of the Bauhaus

Built Lake Shore apartments in Chicago with steel frame and glass walls

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

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Impressionism

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Impressionists

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Monet, Renoir, and Pissaro

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Fascination with form

Abstract, non representational characters showing emotions

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Post impressionism or expressionism

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Painted “Starry Night”
Post impressionist
Painted moving vision of his minds eye

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Vincent Van Gogh

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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

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Paul Gaugin

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Expressionist
Committed to form and design
Increasingly abstract work
Two dimensional

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Paul Cézanne

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

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Henri Matisse

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

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Pablo Picasso

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Russian
Turned away from nature completely
Represented mood not objects

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Wassily Kandinsky

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Attack on all accepted art by using comical or abnormal subjects

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Dadaism

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

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The Rite of Spring

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

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Wozzeck

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

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Arnold Schönberg

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Famous Actors

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Rudolf Valentino, Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish

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King of “silver screen”

Portrayed the “Great Dictator”

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Charlie Chaplan

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