The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (92 page)

Torgoff, Martin,
416
,
417
,
420
–21,
423

totemism,
142
,
145

Tournier, Michel,
335
,
336
,
338

Toynbee, Arnold,
58
n

trade,
476
,
477

tragedy,
94
,
164
,
240
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
349
–50

transcendence:

counterculture and,
411
,
414
,
415
,
417
–18,
427
,
429
,
430
,
437

dancing as,
46

emptiness and,
6

existentialists and,
337
–39

as fundmental to belief,
5
,
6
,
13
–14

impossibility of,
507
–10

as non-phenomenon,
546

phenomenology and,
73

poetry’s achievements and,
457

poverty versus,
13
–18,
22

search for,
5

of self,
370
,
371

“semantic,” 148

size of life and,
544
–45

unity and,
538

See also
specific person’s views

“transcendent impulse,” 4,
5

Transcendentalists,
177
,
178

“transitional object” concept, Beckett’s,
388

Trilling, Diana,
405

Trilling, Lionel,
372

triviality,
547
–49,
554

Trotsky, Leon,
212
,
214
,
215
,
218

trust,
65
–66,
197
,
476
,
491
,
512

truth:

Abstract Expressionism and,
399

aesthetic,
455
,
552

art and,
456

community and,
547

counterculture and,
414

drugs and,
441

ethics and,
516

God and,
525

Impressionism and,
113

Jewish views about,
374

Marxism-Leninism and,
204

of mathematics,
523

modernism and,
535

naming and,
552
,
553

objective,
510

postmodernism and,
498
,
535

pragmatism and,
64

redemptive,
515

science and,
29
,
455
,
540
,
544

spontaneity and,
394

war and,
197

and wholeness via juxtaposition,
125

See also
specific person’s views

Tucker, Sophie,
433

Turin Exposition (1902): Behrens design of,
35
–36

Turing, Alan,
492

Übermensch
concept, Nietzsche’s,
35
,
39
,
50
–52,
253

unconscious:

Abstract Expressionism and,
398
,
399

collective,
286
,
288
,
289
,
380
,
397

and God as archetype,
380

improvisation and,
396

modern dance and,
400

as mystical,
89

pottery and,
402

shadow culture and,
178
,
179

soul and,
89

spontaneity and,
119
,
395

surrealism and,
198

See also
specific person’s views

“undeniable hardness” concept,
323

Unitarians,
324

United Methodist Church,
367

United Nations,
12
,
14
,
431
–32

United States:

as failure,
250

“psychological turn” in,
362

shadow culture in,
177
–79

Yeltsin visit to,
409

unity,
124
,
125
,
126
,
192
,
505
,
512
,
524
–25,
536
,
538
–39,
544
.
See also
specific person’s views

Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
476

universality,
28
–29,
67
,
137
,
284
,
317
,
349
,
366

universe:

“big crunch” in,
493

counterculture’s views about,
420

evolution and,
471

God and,
490
–92

ideal,
494

as machine,
76

omega point concept and,
493
–94

parallel,
492
–93,
544

as a “physical process,” 509

physics and,
3
,
492
–93

role of human beings in,
517

unity and,
544

See also
specific person’s views

unsettlement: doubt and,
27

urbanism,
114
,
193
,
224
,
383

“Use is life” motto, Shaw’s,
100
–101

utilitarianism,
503
,
514

utopia/utopians,
208
,
413
,
416
,
425
,
543
.
See also
socialism: utopian

vagabondage,
40
–43,
50

Vahanian, Gabriel,
382
,
383
,
385

Valéry, Paul,
160
–63

art and,
161
,
162
–63

biology and,
161

chaos and,
130

consciousness and,
73
,
162
,
163

and disappointment,
122
,
160
–63

emotions and,
249

as European “pragmatist,” 71

evolution and,
160
–61

high art and,
454

and ideal,
162

immortality and,
162

and intellect,
162

and knowledge,
161
,
163

life and,
254
,
340

and love,
161

Mallarmé’s influence on,
147

and mathematics,
160

and meaning,
254
,
337
,
539

and mind,
161
–62,
163

and music,
160

and nature,
163

Nietzsche’s influence on,
160

order and,
160
–61,
162
,
536

perception and,
74

and perfection,
162

personal and professional background of,
160

as phenomenologist,
71
,
73
,
74
,
75

poetry and,
146
,
161
,
162
–63,
248
,
539

and reality,
73
,
161

and relationships,
162

religion and,
146
,
163

Rilke and,
227

self and,
161
,
162
,
163

soul and,
161
,
162

spiritual and,
128
,
162
–63

and universe,
163

and values,
161

Wells and,
136

Valéry, Paul (
continued
)

and wholeness,
161

and will,
163

Yeats compared with,
166

value/values,
123
,
125
,
240
,
274
,
445
,
510
,
523
,
537
,
547
.
See also
specific person’s views

van Buren, Paul,
384
–85

Van Gogh, Vincent,
39
,
120
,
121
,
269
,
300
,
398

Vatican II (1962–65),
367

Vedanta societies,
58
,
179

verification,
274
,
275
,
277
,
455
,
505
,
542

veterans, military,
359
–60

Vienna Circle,
234
,
273
–75,
277
–78,
279
,
285
,
300
–301

Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute,
279

violence,
337
–38,
477
,
517

virtue,
83
,
100
,
502

visionary tradition,
178
,
179

visual arts, importance of,
90

vocabulary.
See
language

Volk
: Nazis and,
315
,
323
,
324

völkisch
movement,
310

Voltaire,
23
,
346
,
412

Vornehmheit
concept, Simmel’s,
37

Wagner, Richard,
22
,
37
,
144
,
145
,
209
,
210
,
227
,
317
,
455

waiting concept,
252
,
383
,
384
,
386
,
408
,
454

Waiting for Godot
(Beckett),
252
,
254
,
293
,
387
,
388
–89,
390

war,
190
,
191
,
200
.
See also
specific war

Warhol, Andy,
391
,
423

“warmth of acts,” 344–45,
350
,
399

Watts, Alan,
412
,
414
,
417
,
441

“weak thought,” 513

wealth.
See
affluence

Weber, Max,
192
,
220
–22,
237
,
258
,
259
–61,
330
,
545
–46,
550

Wedekind, Frank,
39
,
157
,
227

Weil, Simone,
340
,
422

Weiss, Yitshak,
373
–74

well-being,
68
–69,
431
,
432
,
434
,
506

Wells, H. G.,
38
,
91
,
136
–41,
450
,
543

Wells, H. G.—works by:

Anticipations of the Results of Mechanical and Scientific Progress,
139,
140

The Foods of the Gods,
141

Mankind in the Making,
137

Mi
ł
osz’s study of,
450

A Modern Utopia,
137

New World for Old,
137

The Outline of History,
91

The World Set Free,
140,
141
–42

Western religions/philosophy,
309
,
353
,
366

See also
specific philosophy or religion

Whitehead, Alfred North,
57
n,
77
,
184
,
304
–6,
309
,
380
,
381
,
384
,
395
,
397
,
405
,
492
,
534

Whitman, Walt,
43
,
415
,
533
,
541

wholeness:

definition of moral,
3

desire and,
545

happiness and,
433

idea of,
2
–6

Impressionism and sense of,
112
–14

juxtaposition and,
125
–26

limits of,
539

myth of,
290
–93,
294

New Age and,
500

phenomenology and,
553

and “psychological turn” in America,
362

retreat from idea of,
539

secular reason and,
3

spontaneity and,
395

unifying of,
125
,
126

World War I and,
192

See also
specific person’s views

wickedness: Liebman’s views about,
353

Wiesel, Elie,
378
–79

Wigman, Mary,
44
,
45
,
46
–47

Wilde, Oscar,
264
,
268

will,
57
,
112
,
120
,
211
–12,
213
,
375
,
384
,
515
,
543
.
See also
will to power;
specific person’s views

will to power,
25
,
26
,
35
,
40
,
207
,
211
,
212
,
324
,
438

Williams, Bernard,
4
,
5
,
514
,
546

Williams, Tennessee,
543

Williams, William Carlos,
404