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Age of Anxiety: Thinkers

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coined the term Age of AnxietyPaul Valery
Rejected Christianity; Insisted that the west overstressed rational thinking and ignored passion and instinctFriedrich Nietzsche
"God is Dead"Friedrich Nietzsche
Stressed the importance of intuition and rational thinkingHenri Bergson
He rejected capitalism and believed that general strikes by all workers would lead to a new socialist societyGeorges Sorel
rejected most of traditional philosophy and religion; used mostly in England; insisted that logic was the clarification of thoughtLogical Empiricism
Began Logical Empiricism; insists that logic is the clarification of thoughtLudwig 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 usExistentialism
"human beings simply exist"Jean-Paul Sartres
Existentialist writer during World War IIAlbert Camus
A German thinker that rejected formal religions but turned to a majestic and remote godKierkegaard
Sought to recreate the religious intensity of the Reformation by stressing the flaws of humanity and the grace of GodKarl Barth
Catholic, he believed religion provide a place for hope, honesty and pietyGabriel Marcel
Atoms were made up of far-smaller, fast moving particles called eletrons and protonsMarie Curie
discovered that radium does not have a constant atomic ratePierre Curie
Subatomic energy is released in spurts called "quanta"Max Planck
Matter and energy are interchangableAlbert Einstein
Atoms could be split into nuetronsErnest Rutherford
formulated the principle of Uncertainty -- it is impossible to know the position of nuetronsWener Heisenberg
Human behavior is irrationFreud
Irrational Unconscious as defined by FreudId
rational consciousness as defined by FreudEgo
French writer, Rememberance of Things PastMarcel Proust
ideas and emotion emerge wihtout reasonStream of Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness writerVirginia Wolff
Stream of Consciousness writerJames Joyce
Every culture experience growth and decline; he saw death approachingOswald Spengler
The Waste Land -- death of humanityT.S. Elloit
anti-utopian literature -- 1984George Orwell
the architectural style of the 20th centuryFunctionalism
"a house is the machine for the living in"Le Corbusier
created the Bauhas styleWalter Gropius
Walter Gropius; functionalism and good design for everyday lifeBauhas
artists that depicted more than the world of factPost Impressionists
Post Impressionist artistVincent Van Gogh
Post Impressionist artist; 2-d planePaul Cezannes
founded Cubism - focused on geometry of zigzaggging lines and sharp anglesPablo Picasso
nonsensical artistic movementDadaism
shocking tones and shocking dancingIgor Stravinsky


AP Psychology Instructor
Dulaney High School
Timonium, MD

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