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by Watson, Peter


  hope, 65–66, 90–91, 450, 514, 546, 547. See also specific person’s views

  Horney, Karen, 358–59

  Houston, Jean, 419–20

  Hughes, Robert, 90, 111, 113, 115, 552

  human beings:

  biology as replacement for theological understanding of, 83–84

  counterculture’s views about, 420

  existentialist views about, 337

  as experiment, 104

  face of, 210

  of the future, 63

  intrinsic nature of, 63

  limitations of, 361, 452

  pragmatism and, 63

  predictive theory of behavior of, 517–18

  purpose of, 487–88

  role in cosmos of, 517

  uniqueness of, 74

  See also specific person’s views

  Human Development Index, UN, 12, 431–32

  human nature, 64, 74, 338, 535. See also specific person’s views

  Human Potential Movement, 364

  humanism, 6, 335, 336, 338, 349, 385, 412, 413, 415. See also specific person’s views

  humanities: science links with, 483–85

  Hume, David, 23, 83, 295

  humor, 123, 124, 408. See also comedy

  Husserl, Edmund, 71–76, 83, 128, 223, 226, 295, 331, 337, 541

  Huxley, Aldous, 303, 413, 417, 441, 450, 543

  Huxley, T. H., 136, 139

  Ibsen, Henrik, 84, 92–97, 99–100, 105, 211, 537

  Ibsen, Henrik—works by:

  A Doll’s House, 92

  An Enemy of the People, 92

  Ghosts, 92

  Hedda Gabler, 93, 94

  John Gabriel Borkman, 93

  The Master Builder, 92, 93

  Peer Gynt, 92

  Rosmersholm, 92, 96–97

  When We Dead Awaken, 93, 95–96

  ideal/idealism, 274, 494, 543. See also specific person’s views

  ideas/Idea, 54, 57, 151, 153–54

  Idema, Henry, 238, 239, 241–42, 243

  identity, 373, 379, 411, 427, 435, 438, 445, 446. See also specific person’s views

  illusions, 252, 254, 255, 280–81, 283, 292, 342, 391, 505–6

  imagination, 66, 176, 244–49, 464, 554. See also specific person’s views

  Imago journal, 84–85, 88

  immortality, 70, 162, 216

  Impressionism, 111–12, 119, 124, 537

  improvisation: body and, 395–97

  income: church attendance and, 16, 21

  Index of Prohibited Books, 180, 317

  individual/individualism:

  counterculture and, 437

  Expressionism and, 50, 122

  expressive, 122

  Futurists and, 210

  isolation/loneliness of, 19–20, 95–96, 241, 255, 358, 365, 390, 416, 425, 451

  Marxism and, 204, 208

  in Matisse’s art, 115

  negative emotions and, 20–21

  phenomenology and, 541

  postmodernism and, 499

  as source of evil, 205

  unity and, 525

  See also self; specific person’s views

  infinity, 113, 151, 248, 289, 544–45

  Inge, Dean, 57n, 176

  Inglehart, Ronald, 11–13, 17, 21

  innocence, 197, 266

  insanity: Musil’s views about, 234–35

  instinct, 39–40, 76n, 101, 118, 122, 272, 284, 292, 370. See also specific person’s views

  intellect/intelligence, 74, 162, 168–69, 271, 272, 394, 396, 412, 430, 476, 516, 540. See also specific person’s views

  intelligent design, 508, 510

  intensity/intensification, 126, 302, 339–41, 342, 402, 406, 407, 408, 456, 459, 473, 506

  intention, 267, 458, 509

  International Association of Psychoanalysis, 84

  International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF), 419

  International Social Survey Program and Eurobarometer surveys, 12

  interpretation, 291–94, 434

  intersubjectivity, 349, 394, 399–400, 401–2, 524

  intimacy, 261, 263, 271, 272, 365–66, 425, 427, 429, 505, 538, 543

  intoxication: Freud’s views about, 283, 284

  intuition, 124, 168–69, 177, 396, 477. See also specific person’s views

  Ireland:

  Yeats views about, 169, 170–72, 173

  See also Heaney, Seamus; Joyce, James

  irony, 123, 195–96, 197, 254

  Islam, 14–15, 204, 214, 219, 473, 531–32, 547

  isolation. See loneliness

  Israel, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 475

  Ivanov, Razumnik Vasilievich, 212, 213

  Ivanov, Viacheslav, 206–7, 211

  James, Henry, 56, 131–35, 136, 144, 145, 190, 235, 294, 543

  James, Henry—works by:

  The Golden Bowl, 132, 133, 134–35

  The Wings of the Dove, 131, 133

  James, Martin, 399–400

  James, William, 56–63

  and absolute, 56–57

  and American tradition of modern thought, 53

  belief and, 57, 59, 309, 514

  Bergson and, 75, 76

  and Boston School of Psychopathology, 178

  Boutroux’s work about, 143

  and Catholicism, 132

  and certainty/uncertainty, 62

  and community, 133, 135

  and Darwinism, 60, 62–63

  Dewey compared with, 59, 60, 61, 62–63

  and emotions, 58, 59

  and evil, 132

  and evolution, 56, 63

  and experience, 57

  fear and, 58, 59

  and free will, 57

  Gifford Lectures of, 57, 57n, 59

  and God, 57, 59, 132–33

  Henry’s relationship with, 131–32

  and human beings, 68

  and ideas, 57

  and intuition, 57

  and knowledge/knowing, 62

  martyrdom and, 58

  Maslow and, 415

  as Metaphysical Club member, 56

  as modernist, 265

  and mysticism, 58

  nitrous oxide inhalation of, 441

  and occult, 180

  Platonic tradition and, 60

  pragmatism of, 56–59, 60, 61, 62–63

  and psychology, 56–57, 58, 59

  and reason, 60

  religion and, 58–59, 62, 131–32

  Santayana and, 66

  and science, 62, 178

  and self, 59

  and supernatural, 66, 132

  and transcendence, 133

  and truth, 57, 58, 59, 62

  James, William—works by, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 57–58, 131–33

  Jameson, Fredric, 466, 499

  Jaques-Dalcroze, Émile, 44, 46

  jazz, 416. See also bebop

  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 318

  Jesus:

  archetypes and, 289

  Emerson’s disbelief in, 54

  ethics and, 516

  and George as Jesus figure, 156

  German theology and, 311, 312, 313

  Kirillov’s views about, 213

  in Lawrence’s The Man Who Died, 270–71

  and living with a woman, 268

  Nazis and, 222, 310, 314, 316, 318

  Nietzsche as comparable to, 34

  as not Jewish, 316

  Nozick’s views about, 516

  Rilke’s views about, 228

  theothanatology and, 384–85, 386

  Whitehead’s deism a
nd, 306

  Jews/Judaism:

  American, 406–7

  assimilation of, 379, 406

  ethics, 378

  evil and, 373

  existence, 377

  and free will, 375

  Freud and, 285

  God and, 373, 375, 376, 377, 378–80, 519

  and God is dead, 375

  and good, 373

  Hitler and, 310, 374–76

  identity of, 373, 379

  love and, 373

  and Lunacharsky’s stages of religion, 209

  Nazis and, 311, 313, 314, 322, 373, 380

  and nothingness, 377

  and Oedipus complex, 285

  and perfection, 376

  “permissive turn” and, 331

  in Poland, 331

  Positive Christianity and, 315

  post-Holocaust beliefs about, 373

  and redemption, 373, 377, 378

  Rogers’s views about, 366

  Rosenberg’s views about, 316, 317, 319, 320

  Roth’s works and, 406–7

  and salvation, 373, 377

  and self, 377

  and sin, 375

  suffering of, 373, 374, 375, 379

  transnational community of, 379

  and truth, 374

  universal religion of, 379–80

  views about death of, 374

  See also Holocaust

  John Paul II (pope), 188, 383

  joy, 96, 97, 98, 99–105, 118, 123, 164, 519, 537

  Joy of Movement cult, 48

  Joyce, James, 263–69

  and Absolute, 264

  and androgynous man, 268

  Arp and, 118

  and authentic life, 506

  Beckett and, 388

  and being, 267

  and body, 268

  and change, 554–55

  and chaos, 266

  and Christianity, 264, 265, 267

  and comic stance, 267

  and common sense, 267

  and consciousness, 264, 265

  and desire, 543

  and egotism, 264

  and epiphanies, 262, 264, 265, 537

  and everydayness, 266

  and experience, 268

  and fact, 258, 264, 266, 538

  and freedom, 264

  and fulfillment, 555

  and God, 267

  and heroism, 267, 268

  and hope, 268, 547

  and idealism, 264

  and individualism, 265

  and innocence, 266

  and intention, 267

  and language, 264, 266

  Lawrence compared with, 268–69

  and life, 264, 265–66

  living with women comment of, 268, 271

  and love, 266, 269, 555

  and meaning, 251

  and metaphysics, 264

  and mind, 268

  Morrison’s music and, 422

  and mythology, 267

  and nature, 264, 456

  Nietzsche’s influence on, 263–64

  and optimism, 547

  and phenomenology, 71

  and philosophy, 263

  and pleasure, 547

  and reality, 264

  and relationships, 265

  and religion, 263, 264

  as risky writer, 272

  and salvation, 267

  and self, 268

  and self-reflection, 267

  and sense, 267

  and sex, 268

  and skepticism, 264

  and suffering, 268

  and truth, 265

  and vision, 267

  and wholeness via juxtaposition, 125

  and women, 268, 271, 547

  Woolf compared with, 263

  Joyce, James—works by:

  Dubliners, 265

  Finnegans Wake, 232, 265, 266, 267, 552, 555

  Stephen Hero, 264

  Ulysses, 258, 263, 264, 265, 267–68, 554–55

  Jung, Carl, 285–90

  Altizer and, 383

  archetypes theory of, 286, 288–89, 419

  and Ascona, 40

  and certainty, 286, 287

  collective unconscious idea of, 286, 288, 289, 380, 397

  and consciousness, 288

  depth psychology of, 371

  empiricism and, 278, 290

  and experience, 278, 289–90

  and faith, 286–87

  Freud and, 84, 285–86, 288, 290

  and fulfillment, 380–81

  goal of, 438

  and God, 278, 288–89, 290

  and good, 289

  and history, 286

  and human nature, 380

  and imagination, 287, 289

  infinity and, 289

  influence of, 97, 352, 383, 404, 413

  and intuition, 289

  and knowledge/knowing, 289

  and life, 286, 289

  and materialism, 287, 289

  May and, 352

  and meaning, 287, 289

  and metaphysics, 290

  modern dance and, 400

  and mythology, 286, 288, 289

  and neurosis, 288, 290

  and Nietzsche’s ideas, 34

  and observation, 288

  and occult, 288

  Olson and, 404

  and perfection, 289

  personal and professional background of, 288

  and philosophy, 286

  and politics, 287

  popularity of, 241

  and progress, 287

  and psychic phenomena, 287, 288

  psychology views of, 286, 287, 290

  and rationality, 286–87

  and religion, 286, 287, 289, 290, 438

  Roszak’s views about, 485–86

  and science, 287, 289

  and secularism, 289

  and self, 288, 289

  and sex, 288

  and sin, 286

  Spiegelberg and, 413

  and spirituality, 287, 289

  spontaneity movement and, 395

  Strindberg and, 97

  and therapy, 287, 380, 438–39

  and transcendence, 289

  and unconscious, 286, 288, 289, 380, 397

  US visit of, 84

  and wholeness, 289

  and World War I, 286

  Jung, Carl—works by:

  Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 286

  On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena, 288

  Symbols of Transformation, 286

  justifications: James’s (William) views about, 62

  juxtaposition: wholeness and, 125–26

  Kafka, Franz, 40, 232, 265, 290–94

  Kandinsky, Wassily, 181–83, 184

  Kant, Immanuel, 23, 57, 82, 83, 133, 274, 359, 436, 503

  Kearney, Richard, 7, 555–56

  Keats, John, 269, 461, 470

  kenosis, 384

  Kerouac, Jack, 394, 402, 403, 405

  Kesey, Ken, 421

  Keynes, Maynard, 79, 83

  Kierkegaard, Soren, 23, 383, 436, 533

  kinetic knowledge, 400–402

  Kingwell, Mark, 433–34, 435, 436

  Kirillov, Vladimir, 213

  Klages, Ludwig, 154, 157

  Kline, George, 208, 209

  Knight, Everett, 73–74, 130, 344

  knowledge/knowing:

  art and, 88

  change and, 495

  counterculture and, 426

  drugs and, 440, 441

 
existentialism and, 350

  kinetic, 400–402

  limits of, 337

  poetry and, 459, 464, 549

  pragmatism and, 63, 64

  self-, 122, 269, 408

  unity of, 525

  Vienna Circle and, 274

  and wholeness via juxtaposition, 125

  See also specific person’s views

  Knowledge Society, 219

  Kojève, Alexandre, 336, 337, 339, 345

  Koyré, Alexandre, 336, 339, 345

  Krasner, Lee, 397, 399

  Kripal, Jeffrey J., 409–10, 413, 414

  Laban, Rudolf, 42, 43–45, 46, 47–48, 115

  Lacan, Jacques, 543

  Lagarde, Paul de, 310, 319, 322

  language:

  of art, 455

  and basic task of culture, 429

  counterculture and, 412

  limits of, 299–302

  naming and, 550

  picture theory of, 299

  of poetry, 458, 459, 465, 549

  pragmatism and, 63–64

  of religion, 264

  Vienna Circle and, 275

  See also specific person’s views

  Larkin, Philip, 196–97, 458, 463, 464

  Lasch, Christopher, 437–39, 440

  Lawrence, D. H., 40, 94, 193, 212, 268–72, 303, 387, 540, 554

  Lawrence, D. H.—works by:

  The Man Who Died, 269, 270–71

  The Plumed Serpent, 269, 270, 271–72

  Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, 269

  Le Corbusier, 35, 498

  League of Militant Atheists, 204, 215, 216, 217, 219

  Lear, Jonathan, 538

  Leary, Timothy, 411, 414, 417–19, 420, 421, 424, 425, 441

  Lebensreform (life-reform) movements, 50–51

  Léger, Fernand, 90–91, 117–18, 543

  Lenin, Vladimir, 118, 205, 211, 212, 216, 217, 219

  Leppmann, Wolfgang, 227–28, 232

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 289

  Lévinas, Emmanuel, 337, 555

  Levine, George, 478, 537, 540, 541

  Lewis, Pericles, 132, 133, 142, 143, 144, 261, 293

  liberalism, 331, 411, 502

  liberation theology, 383

  liberty, 92, 139, 165, 506, 524, 554

  Lichtenstein, Roy, 391

  Liebman, Joshua Loth, 352–55, 358, 366

  life:

  aim/purpose of, 25, 26, 68, 70, 97, 183, 226, 282–83, 289, 337, 370, 415, 431, 440, 459, 487, 493, 512, 516, 534, 537–38, 548

  authentic, 224

  bad, 522

  body as reflection of attitude toward, 401

  breathing spaces in, 349–50

  as changing, 75, 95

  “comic vision” of, 68

  counterculture’s views about, 420, 428

  existence distinguished from, 539

  existentialists’ views about, 337

  as experiment, 128

  good, 26, 473, 505, 506, 518, 520

  as hermeneutic movement, 539

  “holiday,” 68, 69

  impoverishment of modern, 555

 

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