The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (78 page)

4
. Geroulanos, op
.
cit., p. 242.

5
. Ibid., p. 271.

6
. Ibid., p. 307.

7
. Ibid., p. 230.

8
. Ibid., p. 387.

9
. Everett Knight,
Literature Considered as Philosophy: The French Example
, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957, p. 132.

10
. Olivier Todd,
Malraux: A Life
, New York: Knopf, 2005, pp. 108–13.

11
. Geroulanos, op
.
cit., p. 151.

12
. Ibid., p. 159.

13
. See Stacey Schiff,
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
, London: Chatto & Windus, 1994, pp. 105 and 197, for Saint-Exupéry and Malraux.

14
. Geroulanos, op
.
cit., p. 170.

15
. Ibid., p. 171.

16
. Ibid., p. 174.

17
. Ibid., p. 179.

18
. Walter Kaufmann (ed.),
Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre
, New York and London: Penguin Books, 1956, 1975, p. 43.

19
. Kaufmann, op
.
cit., p. 44.

20
. Ibid., p. 348.

21
. Ibid., p. 356.

22
. Knight,
op
.
cit., pp. 42–43.

CHAPTER 19: WAR, THE AMERICAN WAY AND THE DECLINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

1
. Alan Petigny,
The Permissive Society: America, 1941–1965
, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. E. Brooks Holifield,
A History of Pastoral Care in America: From Salvation to Self-Realization
, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1983, pp. 201–2.

2
. Holifield, op
.
cit., p. 213.

3
. Joshua Loth Liebman,
Peace of Mind
, London and Toronto: William Heinemann, 1946, p. 12.

4
. Liebman, op
.
cit., p. 20.

5
. Ibid., p. 31.

6
. Ibid., p. 154.

7
. Thomas Maier,
Dr. Spock: An American Life
, New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt Brace, 1998, p. 114. Petigny, op
.
cit., pp. 37–41.

8
. Maier, op. cit., p. 283.

9
. Petigny, op
.
cit., p. 285.

10
. Ibid., p. 50.

11
. Ibid., p. 79.

12
. Ibid., p. 81.

13
. Ibid., p. 239.

14
. Richard I. Evans,
Carl Rogers: The Man and His Ideas
, New York: Dutton, 1975, p. xxiii.

15
. Evans, op
.
cit., p. 151.

16
. Ibid., p. 165.

17
. Petigny, op
.
cit., p. 276. Joseph Fletcher’s
Situation Ethics: The New Morality
, London: SCM, 1966.

18
. Petigny, op
.
cit., p. 246.

19
. Viktor Frankl,
Man’s Quest for Meaning
, Boston: Beacon Books, 1962, 1984, 2006, Afterword by William J. Winslade, p. 155.

20
. Frankl, op
.
cit., p. 164.

CHAPTER 20: AUSCHWITZ, APOCALYPSE, ABSENCE

1
. Esther Benbassa,
Suffering as Identity: The Jewish Paradigm
, London and New York: Verso, 2010, pp. 92–93.

2
. Benbassa, op
.
cit., p. 94.

3
. Ibid., p. 97.

4
. Ibid., p. 99.

5
. Ibid., p. 101.

6
. See Imre Kertész,
The Holocaust as Culture
, trans. Thomas Cooper, London: Seagull Books, 2011, p. 62, for people who explicitly rejected religion
and
culture as plans to fall back on.

7
. Benbassa, op
.
cit., p. 103.

8
. Ibid., p. 409.

9
. Steven T. Katz et al. (eds.),
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During
and After the Holocaust
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 639ff.

10
. Benbassa, op
.
cit., p. 104.

11
. Ibid., p. 108.

12
. Norman G. Finkelstein
, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
, London: Verso, 2000, pp. 79ff.

13
. Benbassa, op
.
cit., p. 114.

14
. Jim Garrison,
The Darkness of God: Theology after Hiroshima
, London: SCM Press, 1982, p. 159.

15
. Bernard Murchland (ed. and with an Introduction by),
The Meaning of the Death of God
, New York: Random House, 1967, p. 25.

16
. Murchland, op
.
cit., p. 30.

17
. Ibid., p. 37.

18
. Ibid., p. 40.

19
. J. A. T. Robinson,
Honest to God
, London: SCM Press, 1963.

CHAPTER 21: “QUIT THINKING!”

1
. John Calder,
The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett
, London: Calder Publications, 2001, p. 41.

2
. Calder, op
.
cit., p. 79.

3
. Peter Watson,
A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind
, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, p. 418.

4
. Calder, op
.
cit., p. 65.

5
. Ibid., p. 70.

6
. Ibid., p. 74.

7
. Ibid., p. 83.

8
. Ibid., p. 92.

9
. Raymond Yasmil,
Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place: 1958–2010
, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.

10
. Martin Torgoff,
Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age: 1945–2004
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 27.

11
. Daniel Belgrad,
The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America
, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998, p. 1.

12
. Belgrad, op
.
cit., pp. 5–6.

13
. Ibid., p. 10.

14
. Ibid., p. 27.

15
. Ibid., p. 112.

16
. See Carl Woideck,
Charlie Parker: His Music and Life
, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996, p. 23, for her the equivalent: music and the speed of playing as an aspect of
acting.

17
. Belgrad, op
.
cit., p. 108.

18
. Ibid., p. 110.

19
. Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain and Annemarie Stapleton,
Pop! Design, Culture, Fashion, 1965–1976
, Woodbridge: ACC Editions, 2012, p. 119.

20
. Belgrad, op
.
cit., p. 158.

21
. Ibid., p. 151.

22
. Ibid., p. 162.

23
. Geoffrey Beard,
Modern Ceramics
, London: Studio Vista,
1969, p. 165.

24
. Belgrad, op
.
cit., p. 170.

25
. Ibid., p. 31.

26
. See Bill Morgan,
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
, New York: Viking, 2006, pp. 516–17, for John Lennon’s reaction to Ginsberg reading “Howl.” See also James Campbell,
This Is the Beat Generation
, New York, San Francisco, Paris and London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.

27
. Belgrad, op
.
cit., p. 205.

28
. James Wood,
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
, London: Jonathan Cape, 1999, p. 217.

29
. Wood, op
.
cit., p. 222.

30
. Harold Bloom, “His Long Ordeal by Laughter,”
New York Times
Book Review
, May 19, 1985.

31
. Timothy Parrish (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 35.

32
. Parrish, op
.
cit., p. 45.

33
. Ibid., p. 150.

CHAPTER 22: A VISIONARY COMMONWEALTH AND THE SIZE OF LIFE

1
. Theodore Roszak,
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
, London: Faber, 1970, p. xxvi.

2
. Roszak, op. cit., p. xxxiv.

3
. Ibid., p. 49.

4
. Ibid., pp. 64–66.

5
. Herbert Marcuse,
Counter Revolution and Revolt
, London: Allen Lane, 1972, ch. 2, pp. 59ff.

6
. Roszak, op. cit., p. 109.

7
. Ibid., pp. 119–20.

8
. Ibid., p. 14.

9
. See also Alan Watts,
Does It Matter? Essays on Man’s Relationship to Materiality
, New York: Pantheon, 1970.

10
. Roszak, op. cit., p. 83.

11
. Ibid., p. 149.

12
. Jeffrey J. Kripal,
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

13
. Kripal, op. cit., p. 11.

14
. Ibid., p. 139.

15
. Ibid., p. 149.

16
. Ibid., p. 170.

17
. Martin Torgoff,
Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, p. 123.

18
. Torgoff, op. cit., pp. 8, 11.

19
. Ibid., p. 44.

20
. Ibid., p. 271.

21
. Robert C. Fuller,
Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History
, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000, p. 67.

22
. Torgoff, op. cit., p. 85.

23
. Fuller, op. cit., pp. 72–74.

24
. Ibid., p. 85.

25
. Torgoff, op. cit., p. 111.

26
. Ibid., p. 123.

27
. Tony Scherma and David Dalton,
Andy Warhol: His Controversial Life, Art and Colorful Times
, London: J. R. Books, 2010. See also Victor Bokris,
Warhol
, London: F. Muller, 1989, p. 193.

28
. Torgoff, op. cit., p. 179.

29
. Ibid., p. 209.

30
. Carl Belz,
The Story of Rock
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969, does not mention drugs or psychedelic events.

31
. Torgoff, op. cit., pp. 256–57. See also Hunter S. Thompson,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
, London: Flamingo, 1993, passim.

32
. Roszak, op. cit., p. 410.

33
. Ibid., p. 215.

34
. Ibid., p. 254.

35
. Ibid., p. 236.

36
. Theodore Roszak,
Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society
, London: Faber and Faber, 1973, p. 71.

37
. Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, p. 101.

38
. Ibid., p. 254.

39
. Ibid., pp. 260–61.

40
. Ibid., p. 346.

41
. Ibid., p. 356.

42
. Ibid., p. 450.

43
. See Joel Parris,
Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism: Modernity, Science and Society
, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 97, for a skeptical discussion on therapeutic language.

CHAPTER 23: THE LUXURY AND LIMITS OF HAPPINESS

1
. Partha Dasgupta,
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, p. xxii.

2
. Dasgupta, op
.
cit., p. 13.

3
. Ibid., p. 31.

4
. Ibid., p. 37.

5
. Mark Kingwell,
In Pursuit of Happiness: Better Living from Plato to Prozac
, New York: Crown, 1998, p. 107.

6
. Kingwell, op
.
cit., p. 51.

7
. John Ralston Saul,
Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
, Toronto: Penguin Books, 1993, p. 480.

8
. Kingwell, op
.
cit., p. 35.

9
. Ibid., p. 64.

10
. See Jackson Lears,
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
, New York: Basic Books, 1994, especially ch. 1, pp. 17ff.

11
. Kingwell, op
.
cit., p. 225.

12
. Ibid., p. 259.

13
. Anthony Storr,
The School of Genius
, London: Deutsch, 1988, chapters 2 and 4.

14
. Kingwell, op
.
cit., p. 335.

15
. Christopher Lasch,
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
, New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 30.

16
. Lasch, op
.
cit., p. 35.

17
. Ibid., p. 42.

18
. See Joel Parris,
Psychotherapy in an Age of Narcissism: Modernity, Science and Society
, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 64, for a discussion on how therapy replaced religion, and p. 74 for Narcissistic Personality Disorders (NPD).

19
. Ibid., p. 397.

20
. Peter Watson,
A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind
, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, p. 601.

21
. Christopher Lasch,
The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
, New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, p. 94.

22
. Dale Jacquette (ed.),
Cannabis: Philosophy for Everyone
, New York and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 39.