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Coyote, Peter,
423
–24

creationism,
15
,
455
,
509
,
510

creativity,
100
,
206
–9,
211
,
391
,
414
,
486
,
553

crime,
9
,
15
,
21
,
87

“Crisis Theology,” 312

cruelty,
97
–99,
212
,
213
,
278
–82,
306
,
372
,
450
,
523

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly,
534

Cubists,
75
,
111
,
124
,
184
,
210
,
257
,
397
,
399

culture:

basic task of,
429

evolution of,
63

high/“higher,” 212,
496
–97

popular,
497
,
498

Proletkult and,
213

religion and,
28
–29,
496
–97

shadow,
177
–79

See also
specific person’s views

Cunningham, Merce,
394
,
400
,
401
–2

da Vinci, Leonardo,
86
,
342

Dadaism,
47
,
118
,
119
,
124
,
393
,
394
–95

Dali, Salvador,
198

dance,
43
–48,
119
,
395
,
400
–402

See also
modern dance

“dancer spirit,” 45–48

d’Annunzio, Gabriele,
38
,
39
,
188
,
189

Dante Alighieri,
291
,
455

Darmstadt artists’ colony,
35

Darwin, Charles:

and atheists as intellectually fulfilled,
542

Bishop’s admiration for,
551

critics of,
56

Dawkins’s views about,
472

evolution and,
541

Fitzgerald’s views about,
241

Freud’s views about,
87

influence of,
98
,
102
,
178
,
212

James’s (William) views about,
56

language and,
465

Lenin and,
212

Levine’s views about,
478

Marx and,
202

and natural selection,
57
,
102
,
481
,
486
–87

Nietzsche compared with,
51
–52

Origin of the Species
by,
24

and salvation,
102

Shaw and,
99
,
102

Strindberg and,
98

Tille’s views about,
51
–52

See also
Darwinism; social Darwinism

Darwinism,
7
–8,
495
.
See also
social Darwinism;
specific person’s views

Davies, Paul,
491
–92,
493
,
510

Dawkins, Richard,
7
,
469
–72,
488
,
490
,
495
,
540
,
541
–42

de Botton, Alain,
527
–28n,
555

de Kooning, Willem,
397
,
398
,
400

death,
93
,
178
,
191
,
213
,
225
,
240
,
374
.
See also
afterlife; God is dead;
specific person’s views

decisiveness,
223
,
224
,
349
,
350

Dedalus, Stephen,
264

Degas, Edgar,
113
,
300

deism,
77
,
179
,
306
,
484
,
487

democracy,
51
,
60
,
61
,
250
,
295
,
297
,
298
,
320
,
363
,
406
,
440
,
450
–51,
502
,
515

Dennett, Daniel,
7
,
472
–75,
478
,
540
,
541

Der Blaue Reiter group,
181

Derrida, Jacques,
499
,
555

Dershowitz, Alan,
534

Descartes, René,
436
,
533

desire,
97
–99,
132
–35,
145
,
251
,
390
–91,
449
–52,
514
,
540
,
542
–45,
554
,
555
.
See also
specific person’s views

Deutsch, David,
492
–94,
495
,
506
,
544

Deutscher, Isaac,
378
–79

Dewey, John,
59
–63,
295
–98

and American tradition of modern thought,
53

Being and,
297

Bergson compared with,
76

and certainty,
62

change and,
61

Christianity and,
296
,
297

continuous growth concept of,
297
–98

and Darwinism,
60
,
61

democracy and,
60
,
295
,
297
,
298

desire and,
297

as educator,
65

and eternal,
61

and ethics,
296

existence and,
297
–98

and faith,
297
,
298

and family,
65

and future,
61

Gifford Lectures and,
57
n

God and,
295
,
296
,
297
,
298

and good,
298

and human nature,
296

and ideal,
296
,
297
,
298

and imagination,
62
,
297
,
298

and intelligence,
298

James (William) compared with,
59
,
60
,
61
,
62
–63

and knowledge,
297

and love,
65

and metaphysics,
296
,
297
–98

and morals,
65
,
515

personal and professional background of,
295

and philosophy,
61

pragmatism of,
59
–62

public knowledge about,
60

and reality,
298
,
515

and reason,
60

religion and,
295
–98

Rorty’s views about,
65
,
515

and science,
60
,
297
,
298

and self,
63
,
64
,
65
,
297

and soul,
64

and supernatural,
296
–97

and truth,
62
,
297

“unforced flowers of life” of,
525

and values,
296
,
298

views about human beings of,
68

and will,
297
,
515

works by,
296
,
298

dialogue,
397
–400,
456
,
525

Dickinson, Lowes,
192
–93

Diederich, Eugen,
42
,
51

Dietrich, Marlene,
335

Diggins, J. P.,
250
–51

dignity,
14
,
42
,
47
,
94
,
106
,
131
,
240
,
357
,
488
,
519
–22,
548
,
549
,
554

Dilthey, Wilhelm,
27
,
288

Dinter, Artur,
310
–11

Dionysianism:

Chulkov’s views about,
211

counterculture and,
412
,
422

dance and,
47

Expressionism and,
50

German Expressionism and,
49

Ibsen and,
93

and imperative of self-submersion,
39
,
40

Ivanov and,
206
–7

Nietzsche’s views about,
26
,
554

Strindberg’s views about,
98
,
99

theatre and,
207

discipleship,
156
–58.
See also
circle, George’s

Discovery Institute,
510

Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
8
,
27
,
106
,
107
,
108
,
128
,
205
,
207
,
208
,
211
,
450

doubt,
7
–8,
23
,
26
–27,
29
,
391
–93,
408
,
499
,
513

drama,
90
–91,
173
–74.
See also
specific person’s views or drama

dreams,
123
–24,
198
,
252

drugs:

counterculture and,
410
,
416
–25,
428
,
437
,
442

happiness and,
440
–42

intimacy and,
425

as means for controlling others,
442

music and,
416
–23

and Native American traditions,
416
–17

See also
type of drug

Duncan, Isadora,
47

Durkheim, Émile,
142
,
143
,
144
,
145
,
192
,
215
–16

Dworkin, Ronald,
3
,
4
–5,
519
–24,
527
,
528
,
546
,
548
–49,
552

Eagleton, Terry,
437
,
506
,
546

Eastern religions/philosophy,
169
,
309
,
411
–12,
420
,
490
.
See also
specific religion

ecopsychology,
485
–86

ecstasy,
120
,
183
,
208
,
262
,
263
,
420
,
440
,
537
,
543

Ecstasy (MDMA),
425

Eddington, Arthur,
57
n,
545

Eddy, Mary Baker,
178

education,
214
,
215
,
218
,
240
–41,
314
,
324
,
400
,
433
,
474
,
495
.
See also
specific person’s views

ego/egotism,
82
,
264
,
276
,
282
,
393
–95,
441
,
511
,
512

Einstein, Albert,
184
,
304
,
305
,
368
,
470
,
495
,
524

Eisenstein, Sergei,
206
,
214

élan vital
,
77
,
101

Eliot, T. S.,
8
,
66
,
114
,
176
,
303
,
453
,
461
,
496
–97,
498
,
538

elitism,
49
,
77
–80,
247

Ellmann, Richard,
167
,
170
,
171
,
173
,
175

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
53
,
54
,
56
,
61
,
177
,
178
,
354

Emmanuel churches/movement,
179
,
351

emotions,
58
,
59
,
116
,
235
,
242
,
249
,
355
,
394
,
396
,
439
,
444
,
460
,
481
,
540
.
See also
specific emotion

“emotivism” doctrine,
501

empiricism,
274
,
275
,
277
,
278
,
290

emptiness,
6
,
92
,
94
,
95
,
451

enchantment,
545
–46,
551

encounter groups,
365
,
415
,
427
–30

energy,
184
,
288
,
305
,
306
,
397
,
401
,
402
,
404
,
405
,
494

Engels, Friedrich,
200
,
203
,
204
,
205
,
499

Enlightenment,
211
,
338
,
350
,
513
,
546

environment,
411
,
483
–85,
486

Ephrata Mystics,
177

Epicurus,
24
,
468

epiphany,
262
,
264
,
265
,
384
,
421
,
458
,
537
,
552

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