AP Euro People Chapter 28
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Valéry | wrote about the crisis of the cruelly injured mind --> terrible uncertainty from the war |
| Nietzsche | W. civil. in decline because of Christian humility and overstress on rational thinking --> stifles passion and emotion; few supermen had to lead the inferiors |
| Bergson | experience and intuition are as important as rational and scientific thinking |
| Sorel | socialism, led by an elite, would take over in a great violent strike of all working people |
| Wittgenstein | Logical empiricism, claimed philosophy was nothing more than the logical clarification of thoughts- can't answer big q's like the meaning of life |
| Heidegger and Jaspers | Existentialism: humans can overcome the meaninglessness of life by individual action |
| Sartre and Camus | further developed existentialism: popular in France because id advocated positive human action at a time of hopelessness |
| Schweitzer | prot. theologian before 1914: stressed human nature of Jesus and turned away from supernatural divinity -->scientific! |
| Kierkegaard | criticized worldliness of church, stressed remote and majestic God |
| Barth | imperfect and sinful nature of man and need to accept God's truth through trust, not reason |
| Marcel | Catholic existential theologian: found new hope in religion by emphasizing the need for its hope and piety in a broken world |
| Planck | challenged Newtonian physics and belief in constant natural laws: subatomic energy showed atoms were not the smallest |
| Einstein | challenged Newtonian physics and belief in constant natural laws: time and space are relative, universe infinite, matter and energy |
| Rutherford | split the atom |
| Heisenberg | no absolute objective reality like Newton's rational laws, only tendencies and probabilities |
| Freud | irrationality of the human mind: ID (irrational unconsciousness), ego (rationalizing consciousness), superego (ingrained moral values) |
| Proust | psychological relativity- attempt to understand oneself by looking at one's past |
| Woolf, Faulkner, Joyce | stream of consciousness: whatever comes to mind |
| Spengler, Kafka, Orwell | anti-Utopian: future of doooooom |
| Le Corbusier | functionalism: efficiency and clean lines |
| Sullivan | Chicago school of architects: skyscrapers |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | modern houses: low lines, open interiors, mass-produced building materials |
| Gropius | Brauhaus school: proponent of functional and industrial forms: fine art combined with applied art; good design in everyday life |
| Van der Rohe | brought Euro functionalism to Chicago: steel frame and glass wall |
| van Gogh, Gaugin, Cezanne, Matisse | non representational expressionism: worlds of emotion and imagination |
| Picasso | cubism: zigzagging lines, overlapping planes |
| Van Gogh | starry night |
| Dadaism | outrageous conduct |
| Surrealists | inspired by Freud, wild dreams and complex symbols |
| Stravinsky and Berg | expressionism in music |
| Schönberg | abandoned traditional harmony and tonality |
| Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, and Charlie Chaplin | these people were involved with movies and television |
| Marconi | wireless communication: radio |
| Eisenstein | film to dramatize the communist view of Russian history |
| Riefenstahl | prop film for Hitler |
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