Age of Anxiety Important people

Martin Heidegger

Argues west lost sight of being due to past philosophy

All we understood is susceptible to errors- Meaning reality, logic, God come into question

Henri Bergson 1858-1941

Process philosophy

people were living a lie

Experience, initialitve, emotion equally important as intellect and rational thinking

George Sorel 1847-1922

Socialism comes through violence

Equated violence with life,creativity, virtue serving as foundation for Fascism “violence could save world from barbarism”

Ludwig Wittgenstein: 1889-1951

Logic can solve certain truths, but it has limits

Logical Positivism- life must be based on rational facts and observation

Friedrich Nietzsche

Attack on everything, never develops conherent philosophy

Major themes:

Will to power, Master and slave morality, the ubermensch(superman), Christianity and christian morality, God is dead

Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980

Existence precede essence: no truths outside of individual existence

after birth people degine their own essence

alone in the world to confront death and despir

Man condemned to be free

Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855

One lives as individual self with emphasis on reality over abstract thinking

Each individual is solely responsible for giving life meaning

Contributors to New Physics

Curie- radioactivity (matter decays and falls appart

Planck atomic energy emitted in spurts

Einstein- Time is relative

Rutherford- Atoms empty space

Heisenberg- electrons

Sigmund Fred

Id- unconsious has sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories

Ego-Consious- Mediates deires of id and superego

Superego-subconscious- moral conscience

Big impact on a lot of different aspects

Architecture contributors

Chicago school – Louis H Sullivan, modernist, aesthetic, steel frame construction

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frederick Law Olmstead: landscape architecture, national mall

Le Corbusier: Functionalism- separation and visual distinctives of public spaces from private apartments

Walter Gropius/ Bauhaus: pioneer of modern architecture, famous work – Fagus factory

Antoni Gaudi: Gothic revival, Works: Sangrada Familia, Parc Guell, Casa Batllo

Impressionism: Movement out of Paris late 19th century

Artists: Degas, Cezanne, Pisarro, Manet, Monet, renoir

Characteristics: small brushstrokes, light changing qualities, illusion of movements

Post impressionism: post 1880s

continue use of vivid colors thick application of paint, more inclined to emphasize geometric forms

Artists; Cezanne, Munch- Scream guy, Gauguin, Fauvism, Van Gough

Expressionism: late 19th to early 20th century

Present world from subjective perspective, destroying for emotional effect

Picasso: cubism – Guernica 1937

Surealism

Dali

Virginia Woolf

Jacob's room 1922

Logic and realism

We are irrational creatures

James Joyce

Ulysses 1922, Finnigan's Wake 1937, Dubliners 1914

Latin version of Odysseus

Eliot

Waste land 1922- world of growing desolation

Franz Kafka

The Trial, The Castle, The metamorphosis – characters crushed by inexplicable hostile forces

D.L.George

Treaty of Versailles to harsh, we shall have to fight another war in 25 years

J.M. Keynes

reparation payments would ruin European economy

Marshall Foch

Versailles treaty is an armistice for 20 years not peace