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and “psychological turn” in America,
362
and reality,
285
and reason,
189
and religion,
85
,
86
–87,
88
,
277
–83,
285
,
290
,
291
,
292
Ricoeur’s views about,
292
Rogers compared with,
363
and secularism,
87
self-creation and,
39
sex and,
85
,
284
,
288
,
290
,
292
,
356
and sin,
85
and soul,
279
–80
spiritualists and,
280
Spock’s work and,
356
–58
synthesis of,
159
and technology,
284
and therapy,
439
and transcendence,
88
US visit of,
84
and values,
284
World War I and,
190
See also
specific topic
Freud, Sigmund—works by:
Civilization and Its Discontents,
279,
282
–83,
285
on da Vinci,
86
Das Unglück in der Kultur (Unhappiness in Civilization),
282
The Future of an Illusion,
279–80,
281
,
282
“Future Prospects of Psychoanalytic Therapy,” 86
The Interpretation of Dreams,
59,
84
Moses and Monotheism,
279,
285
“Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices,” 85,
279
Totem and Taboo,
85,
87
,
88
,
279
,
286
Friedan, Betty,
368
friendship,
82
,
195
,
226
,
263
,
296
,
308
,
390
,
427
,
520
,
524
,
538
Frisch, Max,
2
–3
fulfillment,
362
,
380
–81,
431
,
443
,
444
,
461
,
534
.
See also
specific person’s views
fundamentalism, religious,
14
,
473
,
512
,
514
,
536
Furedi, Frank,
443
–47
future,
61
,
62
,
63
,
64
,
66
,
104
,
108
–9,
209
,
225
,
251
,
451
,
452
.
See also
Futurists
Futurist Manifesto of Lust
(Saint-Point),
47
Futurist Manifesto
(Marinetti, 1909),
117
,
189
Futurists,
117
–18,
124
,
189
,
206
,
210
,
214
Gadamer, Hans-Georg,
503
–5
Gaia theory,
486
–87
Gellner, Ernest,
444
George, Stefan,
147
,
150
–60,
162
,
189
,
191
–92,
227
,
540
,
542
,
543
George, Stefan—works by:
Der Stern des Bundes,
189
Hymns,
152
Pilgrimages,
152
The Poet as Leader in the Age of German Classicism,
160
The Seventh Ring,
156
The Star of the Covenant,
152,
159
The Tapestry of Life,
154–55
The Year of the Soul,
152,
153
German Expressionism,
35
,
49
–50,
398
German Faith Movement,
322
–23
Germany:
army in,
314
evangelical churches in,
313
,
322
national church in,
311
theological renaissance in,
311
–13
as welfare state,
333
World War I and,
192
World War II and,
332
See also
Nazis;
specific person’s views
Geroulanos, Stefanos,
337
–38
Gide, André,
38
,
71
,
73
,
127
–31,
160
,
265
,
340
,
346
,
347
,
536
,
538
Gifford Lectures,
27
,
57
, 57–58n,
59
,
305
Ginsberg, Allen,
394
,
403
,
404
,
417
God:
absence of,
375
anthropology and,
337
apocalyptic fulfillment and,
381
change in ideas about,
535
–36
characteristics of,
518
cosmologists and,
490
–92
decline in belief in,
23
–24
fear of,
516
as “Ground of Being,” 385,
420
as hidden,
375
Hitler as messenger of,
375
Holocaust impact on belief in,
372
how to live without,
547
–49
as human creation,
385
–86
humans as partners with,
355
as imagination,
248
as irrelevant,
382
Jewish views about,
373
,
375
,
376
,
377
,
378
–80,
519
knowability of,
313
Marxism and,
201
minimalism and,
393
money as replacing,
238
–43
morality and,
548
as mother,
376
as mystery,
376
Nazis and,
322
New Age and,
500
“oneness” with,
419
otherness of,
58
n,
312
,
382
,
535
,
555
pastoral counseling and,
361
,
362
philosophers’ views about,
295
post-Holocaust believers in,
372
–73
privatization of relationship with,
513
–14
God (
continued
)
rational search for,
58
n
sobornost
and creativity and,
206
–9
as suffering,
376
theothanatological views about,
381
–86
truth and,
525
unity and,
538
as unnamable,
555
–56
Vienna Circle and,
274
withdrawal of,
375
workers as,
213
See also
“God is back”; God is dead;
specific person’s views
God is dead:
atheists’ belief in,
28
and death as one of many,
535
fear of,
27
Impressionism and,
111
–12
Jewish views about,
375
minimalism and,
387
Nazis and,
314
and “new spirit” in art,
122
Nietzsche’s announcement of,
3
,
4
,
7
–8,
24
,
148
,
210
,
253
,
377
,
454
,
532
–33,
544
,
554
and publication of Nietzsche’s works,
23
theothanatology and,
382
,
383
–84,
386
thermodynamics and,
148
World War I and,
188
See also
specific person’s views
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
34
,
188
,
206
,
214
,
227
,
291
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Students of the,
170
,
171
,
172
,
174
good/Good:
definition of,
81
Jewish views about,
373
Marxism and,
211
theothanatology and,
382
See also
specific person’s views
Gould, Stephen Jay,
540
“gratuitous act” concept, Gide’s,
130
–31
Grayling, A. C.,
505
Great Britain:
collapse of Christianity in,
28
Nietzsche in,
51
as welfare state,
333
World War I and,
192
World War II and,
332
See also
specific person’s views
Great Refusal,
411
Great Terror, Stalin’s,
381
–82,
388
,
392
Great War.
See
World War I
“greatness,” 197
Gruber, Jonathan,
15
–16
Gundelfinger, Friedrich “Gundolf,” 155,
156
–58,
191
–92
Günther, H.F.K.,
317
,
319
–20,
323
Habermas, Jürgen,
2
–3,
5
,
133
,
288
,
515
,
524
–29,
544
,
546
,
555
Hamburger, Michael,
50
,
228
,
449
,
460
,
461
happiness:
anxiety and,
436
–40
and benefits of religion,
16
consciousness and,
434
counterculture and,
437
definitions of,
436
democratization and,
20
diminished expectations and,
434
–35
drugs and,
440
–42
explorations about,
20
and failure of humanism,
6
flow and,
534
and happy in unhappiness,
435
health and,
432
–33
increase in,
20
–21
limits to,
54
–56
as looking back,
435
as luxury,
431
methods for attaining,
433
modernization and,
20
and move away from materialism,
19
Pew survey about,
15
philosophy and,
435
pragmatism and,
62
recollection of,
546
and rich and poor,
432
–33
therapeutic approach and,
437
–39,
443
–47
types of,
518
See also
specific person’s views
“happy warrior” concept, Wordsworth’s,
80
Harnack, Adolf von,
312
Harvard Divinity School:
Emerson’s address to,
54
psychedelic experiments on students at,
418
