A | B |
coined the term Age of Anxiety | Paul Valery |
Rejected Christianity; Insisted that the west overstressed rational thinking and ignored passion and instinct | Friedrich Nietzsche |
"God is Dead" | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Stressed the importance of intuition and rational thinking | Henri Bergson |
He rejected capitalism and believed that general strikes by all workers would lead to a new socialist society | Georges Sorel |
rejected most of traditional philosophy and religion; used mostly in England; insisted that logic was the clarification of thought | Logical Empiricism |
Began Logical Empiricism; insists that logic is the clarification of thought | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"Of what one cannot speak, of that one must keep silent" | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
a search for moral value in a world of uncertainty; found on continential Europe; atheist; they shatter reaon and God; our actions define us | Existentialism |
"human beings simply exist" | Jean-Paul Sartres |
Existentialist writer during World War II | Albert Camus |
A German thinker that rejected formal religions but turned to a majestic and remote god | Kierkegaard |
Sought to recreate the religious intensity of the Reformation by stressing the flaws of humanity and the grace of God | Karl Barth |
Catholic, he believed religion provide a place for hope, honesty and piety | Gabriel Marcel |
Atoms were made up of far-smaller, fast moving particles called eletrons and protons | Marie Curie |
discovered that radium does not have a constant atomic rate | Pierre Curie |
Subatomic energy is released in spurts called "quanta" | Max Planck |
Matter and energy are interchangable | Albert Einstein |
Atoms could be split into nuetrons | Ernest Rutherford |
formulated the principle of Uncertainty -- it is impossible to know the position of nuetrons | Wener Heisenberg |
Human behavior is irration | Freud |
Irrational Unconscious as defined by Freud | Id |
rational consciousness as defined by Freud | Ego |
French writer, Rememberance of Things Past | Marcel Proust |
ideas and emotion emerge wihtout reason | Stream of Consciousness |
Stream of Consciousness writer | Virginia Wolff |
Stream of Consciousness writer | James Joyce |
Every culture experience growth and decline; he saw death approaching | Oswald Spengler |
The Waste Land -- death of humanity | T.S. Elloit |
anti-utopian literature -- 1984 | George Orwell |
the architectural style of the 20th century | Functionalism |
"a house is the machine for the living in" | Le Corbusier |
created the Bauhas style | Walter Gropius |
Walter Gropius; functionalism and good design for everyday life | Bauhas |
artists that depicted more than the world of fact | Post Impressionists |
Post Impressionist artist | Vincent Van Gogh |
Post Impressionist artist; 2-d plane | Paul Cezannes |
founded Cubism - focused on geometry of zigzaggging lines and sharp angles | Pablo Picasso |
nonsensical artistic movement | Dadaism |
shocking tones and shocking dancing | Igor Stravinsky |