Futurists and, 117, 210
machinery and, 117
theothanatology and, 383
See also specific person’s views
French Revolution, 23, 165, 213
Freud, Sigmund, 277–85
and afterlife, 283
American reception to ideas of, 438
and anxiety, 86, 87
and art, 88, 283, 284, 292
and authority, 86
Barth and, 313
Bergson compared with, 76, 77
and children, 86, 118, 282, 284, 356
and Christianity, 285
and civilization, 282–83, 284–85
and community, 294
and consciousness, 292
critics of, 83, 89
and culture, 279, 281
Dali’s works and, 198
and death, 279, 280
death of, 83
depth psychology of, 371
and desire, 544
dreams and, 123
and education, 284
and empiricism, 278, 290
Freud, Sigmund (continued)
and errors, 280–81
and evolution, 87
and existence, 283
and experience, 278, 280
and Expressionism, 122
and family, 86–87, 239, 255, 284
and feeling, 271–72
Four Palliatives of, 283–85
Frankl and, 369, 370
Fromm and, 358
and God, 277–82, 283, 285
and guilt, 85
and happiness, 283, 284, 285, 434, 537
and helplessness, 86
and human nature, 130
illness of, 279, 282
illusions and, 280–81, 283, 292
Imago journal and, 84–85
influence of, 83, 89, 97, 99, 352, 437, 544
and instinct, 85, 87, 118, 189, 282–83, 284, 292
and interpretation, 294
and intoxication, 283, 284
Jung and, 285–86, 288, 290
and knowledge/knowing, 88
and language, 465
Lasch and, 437
Lawrence’s views about, 269
Liebman’s views about, 353
and life, 282–83
and literature, 292
and love, 87, 283, 284
Mallarmé compared with, 147
May and, 352
metapsychology of, 278–82
and morality, 292
and nature, 279–80
and neurosis, 281, 288, 290, 438
Nietzsche compared with, 39
“oceanic feeling” concept of, 271–72, 282, 485
Oedipus complex concept of, 87, 88, 285, 290, 357
palliatives/drugs and, 442
and parent-child relationship, 86–87, 239, 282
pastoral counseling and, 361
and perfection, 284–85
personal and professional background of, 278–79, 288
pleasure principle and, 282–83, 370
popularity of, 241, 330
postmodernism and, 498
and psychoanalysis/psychotherapy, 65, 83–89, 279–82, 438, 544
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 science, 281, 540–41
and secularism, 87
and security, 87, 434
self-creation and, 39
sex and, 85, 284, 288, 290, 292, 356
and sin, 85
and society, 85, 281, 285
and soul, 279–80
spiritualists and, 280
Spock’s work and, 356–58
Strindberg and, 97, 99
and suffering, 279, 284
synthesis of, 159
and technology, 284
and therapy, 439
and transcendence, 88
and truth, 280, 281
and unconscious, 65, 76, 84, 85, 88, 110, 285, 290
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
Woolf publication of, 257, 263
Friedan, Betty, 368
friendship, 82, 195, 226, 263, 296, 308, 390, 427, 520, 524, 538
Frisch, Max, 2–3
Fromm, Erich, 290, 358–59
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
Fussell, Paul, 195–97, 254
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
Garrison, Jim, 380, 381, 383, 409
Gay, Peter, 88, 278
Gellner, Ernest, 444
genetics, 488, 535, 545
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
education in, 314, 324
evangelical churches in, 313, 322
holidays in, 314, 325
national church in, 311
nationalism in, 322, 324
Nietzsche’s fame and, 33, 34
theological renaissance in, 311–13
as welfare state, 333
World War I and, 192
World War II and, 332
youth in, 43, 51, 321
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
globalization, 28, 536, 546
God:
absence of, 375
anthropology and, 337
apocalyptic fulfillment and, 381
as archetype, 288–89, 290, 380
attributes of, 277, 295
change in ideas about, 535–36
characteristics of, 518
cosmologists and, 490–92
counterculture and, 418,
419–20
decline in belief in, 23–24
definition of, 420, 536n, 555–56
drugs and, 419–20, 441
evolution and, 471, 472
existence of, 276–77, 535
existentialism and, 336, 337
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
limits of, 355, 518–19
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, 58n, 312, 382, 535, 555
pastoral counseling and, 361, 362
philosophers’ views about, 295
poetry and, 146, 244
post-Holocaust believers in, 372–73
privatization of relationship with, 513–14
God (continued)
rational search for, 58n
redefinition of, 376, 380–81
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 back,” 15, 28, 29
God is dead:
atheists’ belief in, 28
and death as one of many, 535
Expressionism and, 49, 119
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
popularity of, 26, 29
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
Gödel, Kurt, 273, 337, 492
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 34, 188, 206, 214, 227, 291
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Students of the, 170, 171, 172, 174
Gombrowicz, Witold, 449, 451
good/Good:
definition of, 81
ethics and, 80–83, 516
happiness and, 432, 433, 435
Jewish views about, 373
life, 26, 473, 505, 506, 518
Marxism and, 211
theothanatology and, 382
See also specific person’s views
Goodheart, Eugene, 538, 543
Goodman, Paul, 394, 425
Gorky, Maxim, 205, 206, 210–11
Gould, Stephen Jay, 540
Graham, Gordon, 11, 264, 539, 540
Graham, Martha, 400, 401
Gräser, Gusto, 40–41, 42–43
“gratuitous act” concept, Gide’s, 130–31
Gray, John, 538, 543, 547, 553
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 Depression, 332, 336, 346
Great Refusal, 411
Great Terror, Stalin’s, 381–82, 388, 392
Great War. See World War I
“greatness,” 197
Green, Martin, 39–40, 45, 46, 48
Gruber, Jonathan, 15–16
guilt, 85, 91, 96–97, 255, 370
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
hallucinogenics, 416–20, 441
Hamburger, Michael, 50, 228, 449, 460, 461
happiness:
anxiety and, 436–40
and benefits of religion, 16
and children, 436, 443
and church attendance, 15, 21
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
good and, 432, 433, 435
and happy in unhappiness, 435
health and, 432–33
increase in, 20–21
limits to, 54–56
as looking back, 435
as luxury, 431
materialism and, 20, 434
measurement of, 431–32, 433
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
security and, 431, 434
self and, 434, 435, 444
therapeutic approach and, 437–39, 443–47
types of, 518
well-being and, 431, 432, 434
See also specific person’s views
“happy warrior” concept, Wordsworth’s, 80
Harnack, Adolf von, 312
Harris, Sam, 7, 475, 477, 512
Harvard Divinity School:
Emerson’s address to, 54
psychedelic experiments on students at, 418
Harvard Humanists, 418–19
Harvard University:
Leary’s release from, 419
Lowell Lectures at, 55
Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm, 322–24
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 227, 543
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 56, 241
Hayek, Friedrich von, 332–33
health, 15, 308, 432–33, 438
Heaney, Seamus, 224, 448–49, 456–60, 463–64, 537, 542, 549, 550
heaven, 11, 103, 104, 168, 494, 553
Hegel, Georg, 23, 83, 92, 103, 212, 228, 441, 504
Heidegger, Martin, 222–28
and art and science, 455
and being/Being, 224, 225, 226
and “care” of the world, 224, 225, 227, 487
and change, 225
Csikszentmihalyi and, 534
and death, 223, 225
decisiveness and, 223, 224
and essence, 223
everydayness and, 225, 227
and existence, 225
and future, 225
Gadamer as assistant to, 504
and God is dead, 226
and history, 224–25
and human nature, 223
and individuality,
225
influence of, 336, 339
and intensity, 223
and knowledge/knowing, 224–25
and life, 224, 226, 265, 337
and marginal practices, 226
and meaning, 226
and nature, 228
and poetry, 224, 226
and reality, 223
reflection and, 224
resistance and, 336, 338, 402–3
Sartre compared with, 346
and science, 224, 226, 455, 540, 542
and self, 225
Spiegelberg and, 414
and transcendence, 226
and truth, 468
and unconscious, 224
and value/values, 226
and wholeness, 225
and will, 225
Heidegger, Martin—works by:
Being and Time, 223, 225, 228, 338
Gelassenheit (Composure), 223
Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry, 223
The Origin of the Work of Art, 223
The Question of Technology, 223
What Is Metaphysics? 223
Heisenberg, Werner, 58n, 336
hell, 168, 306, 317, 319, 473
Hemingway, Ernest, 195, 240, 241–42, 244
Herbert, Zbigniew, 449, 552
Herder, Johann, 288, 317
hermeneutics, 292, 293–94, 539
Hermetic Students of the Golden Dawn. See Golden Dawn, Hermetic Students of the
heroes:
as art theme, 114, 116
Chekhov’s views about, 106, 108, 109
in Eisenstein’s films, 214
of everyday life, 114
Hauer’s views about, 323
Joyce’s views about, 267–68
Nazism and, 320, 322
Nietzsche and, 188
poets as, 449
Rosenberg’s views about, 320
suffering and, 268
heroes (continued)
World War I and, 189, 190
Yeats and, 170–74, 175, 176
herrenmoral ideal, Nietzsche’s, 37
Hesse, Hermann, 35, 40, 41, 42, 48, 157
Hibberd, Declan, 267–68
Himmler, Heinrich, 315, 316, 318, 321, 322, 325
hipsters, 393
history:
counterculture’s views about, 429
cyclical, 169
end-point of, 494–95
minimalist art and, 392
Nazis and, 317
postmodernism and, 499
See also past; specific person’s views
Hitchens, Christopher, 7, 543
Hitler, Adolf, 159, 233, 258, 310–11, 313–14, 316–18, 321–22, 325, 329, 374–76. See also Nazis
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 152, 190, 227
holidays, 218, 314, 325, 537–38
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr., 53–55, 56, 62, 536
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr., 54, 55–56
Holocaust, 331, 338, 369, 372–73, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378–80, 381, 388, 406, 519
homeopathy, 177
homosexuality, 334, 554
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