The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (81 page)

Boutroux, Émile,
142
–43

brain: size of,
517

Brâncuşi, Constantin,
183
,
184

Braque, Georges,
111

Brecht, Bertolt,
422

Brentano, Franz,
72

Breton, André,
198

Breuer, Josef,
59

“bricolage” beliefs,
499
–500,
501

Brodsky, Joseph,
449
,
459

Brooke, Rupert,
77
,
189
–90,
195

Brooks, Van Wyck,
66
,
165
,
239

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
128

Buber, Martin,
311

Buchan, John,
189

Buckley, Jerome,
93

Buddha/Buddhism,
42
,
58
,
390
,
395
,
412
,
414
,
516
.
See also
Zen Buddhism

Bukharin, Nikolai,
212

bullfighting: Hemingway’s comparison of church ritual and,
242

Bultmann, Rudolf,
58
n,
311
,
312

Butler, Christopher,
264

Byron, Lord,
92
,
211

Cage, John,
394
,
400
,
401

Calder, John,
387
,
390

“the calling”: Weber’s views about,
259
–60

Calvin, John,
353
,
474

Calvinism,
259
–60,
357
,
359

Cambridge Conversazione Society “the Apostles,” 77–78,
303

Camus, Albert,
329
–30,
331
,
339
,
349

capitalism:

counterculture and,
410

existentialists and,
336

happiness and,
433
,
436

impact of financial crisis of 2008 on,
19

Marx-Engels’s views about,
499

materialism and,
250

as Musil’s “normal” condition,
235
–36

Nietzschean Marxists and,
38

postmodernism and,
499

science and,
540

socialism as replacement for,
137

and things we want next,
20

World War I and,
193
,
332

See also
specific person’s views

Capra, Fritjof,
490

“cargo of life”: Nietzsche’s views about,
25

caring:

as layer of ethics,
516

for the world,
224
,
225
,
227
,
487

Carnap, Rudolf,
273
,
274

Carson, Rachel,
485

Castaneda, Carlos,
417

Catholics/Catholicism,
119
,
132
,
142
,
180
,
310
,
314
–20,
322
,
324
,
325
,
366
,
383

certainty/uncertainty,
17
,
62
,
413
,
446
,
456
.
See also
specific person’s views

Cézanne, Paul,
50
,
71
,
73
–74,
111
,
115
,
130
,
181
,
229
,
550

Chadwick, Owen,
27
,
29

Chagall, Marc,
111

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,
316
,
319

chance,
118
,
119
,
138
–39,
509
,
534

change:

art as means to explain,
90

Expressionism and,
119

Futurists and,
210

in late nineteenth century,
110

life as,
95

in modern society,
428
–29

postmodernism and,
499

pragmatism and,
95

resistance as means of,
400

technological/innovative,
110

theothanatology and,
383

See also
specific person’s views

chaos,
120
,
146
,
199
,
498
.
See also
specific person’s views

charisma,
14
,
15
,
178
,
258

Chekhov, Anton,
97
,
105
–9,
265
,
536

chemistry: physics links with,
542
,
545

Chesterton, G. K.,
19
n,
165
,
190

chicken experiment, Thorndike’s,
56
–57

child-man: and “new spirit” in art,
123

children:

as battleground of instinct,
118

Beckett’s views about,
390

Freud’s views about,
86
,
118
,
282
,
284
,
356

happiness and,
436
,
443

Horney’s views about,
359

and “new spirit” in art,
123
,
124

Russell’s views about,
308

science education for,
541

sex and,
284
,
308
,
356
,
357

sin and,
356

Spock’s views about,
356
–57

teaching a belief system to,
474

therapy for,
443

See also
parent-child relationship

Chinese: Malraux’s comments about,
340

choice,
513
,
516
,
521
,
538

choreosophy,
48

Christians/Christianity:

Bolshevik crusade and,
204

communism and,
214

as community,
202

“counterfeit,” 500

decline of,
319

“discursive,” 28

happiness of,
15

health of,
15

Nazis and,
311
–12,
313
–15,
322
,
324
–25

“New Age” and,
500

occult and,
167
,
180

Positive,
314
–15

postmodernism and,
498
,
500

shadow culture and,
179

as “slave morality,” 204,
209

theosophy and spiritualism as giving credibility to,
197

theothanatology and,
383
–84,
385

World War I and,
188
,
196

See also
fundamentalism, religious;
specific person’s views

church:

attendance at,
15
,
16
,
21

factories as substitutes for,
217
–19

circle, George’s,
147
,
152
–60,
191
–92

civil rights movement,
334
,
383
,
410
,
421
,
474

clairvoyants,
182

clay pottery,
402
–3

clergy:

women as,
367

See also
pastoral psychology/counseling;
specific person’s views

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
93

colonialism,
37
,
452

color: in art,
111
,
113
,
115
–17,
183

comedy,
68
,
70
,
123
,
267
.
See also
humor

common sense,
82
,
267
,
274
,
275
,
435
,
440

communism,
202
,
204
,
212
,
214
–17,
218
,
307
,
366
,
383
.
See also
Marxism

community:

Christianity as,
202

counterculture and,
411

expansion of art,
124

Expressionism and,
50

hope and,
547

importance of,
546
,
554

Jews as transnational,
379

meaning and,
546

and Mussolini’s cult of personality,
317
n

naming and,
554

Nazis and,
315

pragmatism and,
65

“total”/redemptive,
39

totemism and,
142

truth and,
547

Übermensch
and,
51

Unitarians and,
324

war as restoration of,
190

World War I and,
191
–93,
200

See also
specific person’s views

computation,
493
,
495

computers/computer science,
494
,
499

comradeship,
390
,
408

Confessional Church,
313
,
324

confessionals,
354
,
362
,
444

conformity,
358
,
477
,
480

Conrad, Joseph,
133
,
303

conscience,
308
,
382

consciousness:

as absolute,
72

Abstract Expressionism and,
398

“beat” writing and,
404

cosmic,
538

counterculture and,
410
,
411
,
415
,
417
,
419
,
425
–26,
427

drugs and,
440
,
441

false,
264
,
292

happiness and,
434

Impressionism and,
112

New Age and,
500

and “new spirit” in art,
124

phenomenology and,
72
,
73

pragmatism and,
72

self-,
104
,
114
,
164
,
434
,
520

shadow culture and,
178

spontaneity and,
395

theosophy and,
168
–69

See also
unconscious;
specific person’s views

consciousness-raising groups,
368

consequentiality,
349
–50,
389
–90,
513
,
521
,
547
–49,
552
,
554

consilience: Wilson’s (E. O.) views about,
479
,
483
–85

continuous growth concept, Dewey’s,
297
–98

conversions, Christian,
58
,
308

“cool,” 393–94

cooperation,
475
–76,
512
,
548

cosmic consciousness,
58
,
538

“cosmologies to two,” 94

cosmos/cosmologists.
See
universe

counseling,
352
,
360
.
See also
pastoral psychology/counseling; psychoanalysis/psychotherapy; therapy

counterculture:

aesthetics and,
425
–27

Ascona compared with,
40

consciousness and,
410
,
411
,
415
,
417
,
419
,
425
–26,
427

“dropping out” and,
420

drugs and,
410
,
416
–25,
428
,
437
,
442

encounter groups and,
427
–30

Esalen Institute and,
409
–10,
413
,
414

God and,
418
,
419
–20

happiness and,
437

humanism and,
412
,
413
,
415

identity and,
438

individualism and,
437

love and,
414
,
424
,
427

Marxism and,
411

morals and,
425
–27

music and,
410
,
420
–23,
424

mysticism and,
412
,
413
,
416
,
418
,
419
,
428

Nietzsche generation compared with,
39
–40

phenomenology and,
226

psychedelics and,
416
–23,
424
–25

religion and,
420

and religion of no religion,
413
–16

salvation and,
429
,
438

science and,
410
,
413
,
426
,
427
,
428

self and,
411
,
414
,
427
,
428
,
437

sex and,
411
,
414
,
424
,
427

spirituality and,
411
,
413
,
415
,
417
–18,
420
,
428
,
429

therapeutic approach and,
410
–11,
413
,
415
–16,
429
,
437
–38

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

Cox, Harvey,
382
–83