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Western Civilization
Chapter 28
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irrationalism
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belived that reason exercised a very limited influence over human conduct, that impulses, drives, and instincts - all forces below the surface - determined behavior much more than did logical consciousness
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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he attacked the accepted views and convictions of his day as hindrance to a fuller and richer existence.
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nihilism
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the belief that moral and social values have no validity
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the overman or superman
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the superior that man can surmount nihilism by adopting a new orientation that gives primacy to this man
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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declared that beneath the conscious intellect is the will, a striving, demanding, and imperious force, which is the real determinant of human behavior
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Fyodor Dostoevski
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attacked the fundamental outlook of the Enlightenment, particularly as expressed by liberals and socialists.
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The Underground Man
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is totally free
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Henri Bergson
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a French philosopher of Jewish background
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Georges Sorel
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recognized the political potential of the nonrational
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Sigmund Freud
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he identified civilization with reason and regarded science as the avenue to knowledge, but in contrast he focused on the massive power and influence of nonrational drives.
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free association
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a procedure that rests on the premise that spontaneous and uninhibited talk reveals a person's emotional distress
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id
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the subconcious seat of the instincts
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Emile Durkheim
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was an important founder of modren sociology
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anomie
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a collapse of values
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Vildredo Pareto
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aimed to construct a system of sociology on the model of the physical sciences
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Gustave Le Bon
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concentrated on mass psychology as demonstrated in crowd behavior
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Max Weber
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was a leading shaper of modern sociology
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modernism
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a great cultural revolution
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Daniel Bell
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a sociologist
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Gottfried Benn
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a German poet
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Emil Nolde
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a German expressionis painter
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stream of consciousness
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a newly devised way to reveal the mind's every level
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Arnold Schonberg
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an Austrian composer
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Paul Klee
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a prominent 20th century artist
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cubism
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developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
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Piet Mondrain and Wassily Kandinsky
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created abstract art
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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
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discovered x-rays
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Henri Bequerel
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discovered radioactivity
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J.J Thomson
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discovered electrons
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Max Planck
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proposed the quantum theory
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Albert Einstein
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e=c(squared)
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Niels Bohr
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a Danish scientist
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Werner Heisenberg
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showed that it is impossible to determine at one and the same time both an electron's precise speed and its position
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William Butler Year
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an Irish poet
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Jan Romein
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a Dutch historian
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