The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (87 page)

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

inverting of,
407

Jewish views about,
377

and living well,
520

love of,
68

meaning of,
4
,
18
,
29
,
400
,
496
,
506
,
519
,
521
,
522
,
524

as narrative,
548
,
550

as performance,
520
,
521
,
548
–49,
554

realms of,
554

religion as way to fulfilled,
6

shadow culture and,
178

size of,
538
,
544
–45

theothanatology and,
385

as tragedy,
164

turning points in,
427

unexamined,
517
–18,
522

unsatisfiability of,
511
–12

use is,
100
–101

withdrawal from,
511

See also
specific person’s views or topic

life-lie,
254

lifestyles, Nietzschean,
35
–36

light,
112
,
113
–14,
120
,
516

literature,
260
,
292
,
465
–68,
499
,
533
.
See also
specific author

Locke, John,
83
,
357
,
436
,
503

logic,
75
,
76
,
129
–30,
164
,
275
,
278
,
300

logical positivism.
See
Vienna Circle

logotherapy,
369
–70

loneliness,
19
–20,
50
,
241
,
255
,
358
,
365
,
390
,
416
,
425
,
451

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
56

Lorca, Federico García,
120
,
146

Louÿs, Pierre,
160

love:

comradeship and,
390

counterculture and,
414
,
424
,
427

enduring,
555

ethics and,
516

family,
255

as harmful,
444

and hierarchy of psychological needs,
415

Jews and,
373

as refuge,
341
–43

self-,
272
,
359
,
445

as source of fulfillment,
444

universal,
284

of the world,
440

See also
agape
(law of love);
specific person’s views

Lovelock, James,
486
,
487
,
488

Lowell, Robert,
458
,
537

Lowell Lectures,
55

LSD,
418
–19,
421
–22,
424
,
441
,
442

Ludendorff, Mathilde,
322
,
324

Lukács, George,
159
,
233

Lunacharsky, Anatoly,
205
,
206
,
209
–10,
211
,
213

lust: Saint-Point’s views about,
47
,
543

Lustig, Arnot,
379

Luther, Martin,
202
,
319
,
353

Lutheran Church,
314
,
322

luxury, meaning as,
431
,
533

lying,
133
,
135
,
136
,
139

Lynd, Helen,
239
,
240
,
241
,
242
,
352

Lynd, Robert,
239
,
240
,
241
,
242
,
352

Mach, Ernst,
232
–33,
273

Machiavelli, Niccolo,
212

machine/machinery,
90
–92,
117
–18,
270
,
434
–35

MacIntyre, Alasdair,
58
n,
435
,
501
–2,
539

Macke, August,
181

Magritte, René,
199

Mahler, Gustav,
33
,
35

Mailer, Norman,
368
,
405

Malevich, Kazimir,
210
–11

Mallarmé, Stéphane,
128
,
146
,
147
–50,
160
,
163
,
164
,
165
,
536
,
542

Malraux, André,
339
–40,
341
–42,
343
,
344
,
347
,
399
,
537

man.
See
human beings

Mandelstam, Osip,
449
,
455
,
457
,
537

Manet, Edouard,
115

Mann, Thomas,
36
–37,
157
,
180
,
265
,
395
,
534
–35

Mannheim, Karl,
332
,
333

Mansfield, Katherine,
303

Marcuse, Herbert,
411

marginal practices, Heidegger’s,
226

Margulis, Lynn,
486
,
488

marijuana,
424
,
442
, 442n

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso,
117

marriage,
135
,
227
,
313
,
436

martyrdom, James’s (William) views about,
58

Marx, Karl:

art and,
292

and capitalism,
202

Christianity and,
202

consciousness and,
292

and decline in belief in God,
23

and history,
203

influence of,
205

language and,
465

and literature,
292

Mallarmé compared with,
147

and morals/morality,
292

and politics,
203

postmodernism and,
499

Marx, Karl (
continued
)

religion and,
201
,
292

Ricoeur’s views about,
292

“ruling ideas” of society,
203

sex and,
292

socialism and,
202

Trotsky’s views about,
214

and withering away of state,
285

writings of,
200
,
202
,
203

See also
Marxism

Marxism:

counterculture and,
411

existentialists and,
336

God and,
201

good and,
211

individual and,
205

materialism and,
211

nationalism and,
200

Nazis and,
315

Nietzsche’s influence on,
38
,
204
–14

popularity of,
330

postmodernism and,
498

rationality and,
211

religion and,
201
,
213
,
292

spirituality and,
211

spread of,
202

Superman and,
213

will to power and,
211

work/workers and,
202
–3,
217
–19

See also
communism;
specific person’s views

mask,
172
,
173
,
174
,
181
,
251

“Masks” (Macke),
181

Maslow, Abraham,
362
,
363
,
368
,
414
–15,
426
,
434
,
537

Masonic lodges,
318
,
320

Massachusetts Metaphysical College,
178

Masters, R. E.,
419
–20

materialism:

art as way out of,
18

communism and,
216

and Gifford Lectures,
58
n

happiness and,
20
,
434

Marxism and,
211

modern art and,
113

Nazis and,
311
,
315

scientific,
58
n,
280
–81,
480
–81

shift toward,
239

Theosophy and,
167
,
170

World War I and,
190

See also
specific person’s views

mathematics,
160
,
278
,
303
–4,
305
,
336
,
487
,
491
–95,
517
,
523
,
524

Matisse, Henri,
115
–16,
119

matter,
73
,
183
,
309
,
429

May, Rollo,
352
,
362

Mead, Margaret,
356

meaning:

ambigous,
124

of artwork,
392

“beat” writing and,
403
–6

and beliefs as public,
514

body’s role in search for,
387

color as,
115
–16

community and,
546

counterculture and,
414
,
430

Expressionism and,
122

Futurists and,
210

global ethics as important to,
506

hope and,
546

and impoverishment of modern life,
555

intensity as,
339
–41

of life,
4
,
18
,
29
,
400
,
496
,
506
,
519
,
521
,
522

as luxury,
431
,
533

minimalist art and,
392

need for,
6

and “new spirit” in art,
124

as not a security blanket,
536
–41

as oppressive illusion,
505
–6

and others,
554

poetry and,
459
–60,
464

prosody as,
403
–6

psychotherapy and,
89
,
438

religion and,
556

simultanism and,
126

surrealism and,
198

therapeutic approach and,
446

and wholeness via juxtaposition,
125

See also
specific person’s views

The Meaning of Life
(movie),
18

meditations, Nozick’s,
517
–18

Merezhkovsky, Dmitry,
206
,
211

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
335
,
339
,
340
–41,
534

metal: Futurists and,
117
–18

metanarrative,
498
–99

metaphors,
173
,
231
–32,
248

Metaphysical Club “Saturday Club,” 55–56,
59

metaphysics,
71
–73,
274
–78,
382
,
384
,
394
,
415
,
432
,
456
,
538
.
See also
specific person’s views

middle-class, spiritual,
253
–54

Middletown
(Lynd and Lynd),
239
,
241
,
242
,
352

Midgley, Mary,
58
n,
487
–90,
491
,
495

Mill, John Stuart,
83
,
303
,
503

Mi
ł
osz, Czes
ł
aw,
448
,
449
–52,
456
,
461
–62,
464
,
468
,
538
,
546
,
549

Milton, John,
465

mind,
64
,
112
,
136
–41,
190
,
398
,
401
,
419
.
See also
mind-body;
specific person’s views

mind-body,
394
,
395
,
398
,
399
,
404

Mingus, Charles,
397

minimalism,
387
–93,
400
,
407
.
See also
specific person’s views

minutes heureuses
, Baudelaire’s,
536
,
553

miracles,
173
,
261

missing:

“practice” as,
501
–3

“what is,” 5–6,
510
,
526
,
528
–29,
539

Mode, Doris,
361
–62

modern art,
111
,
198
,
316
,
341
–42,
546
.
See also
specific artist

modern dance,
44
,
400
,
401

Modern Times
(movie),
339

modernism,
10
,
14
,
17
–18,
20
,
37
,
90
–91,
143
,
156
,
311
,
316
,
498
,
527
,
535

moments of being: Woolf’s views about,
261
,
262
–63

moments bienheureux
, Proust’s,
144
,
537

Mondrian, Piet,
180
,
183
–84,
197
,
454

Monet, Claude,
112
–13,
115
,
118
,
537

money: as replacing God,
238
–43

Monod, Jacques,
488
,
489
–90

Montaigne, Michel de,
130
,
346

Montale, Eugenio,
460
–61,
537

Monte Veritá,
44
,
46

Moore, George Edward,
77
–82,
83
,
251
,
289
,
301
,
303
,
308
,
426
–27,
538

morals/morality:

counterculture and,
410
,
425
–27

Darwinism as explanation for,
7

definition of,
520
,
548

“discursive Christianity” and,
28

drugs and,
441

ethics and,
520
,
548
–49

evolution and,
471
,
495
,
548

and God,
548

as guides to behavior,
510

lust and,
47

Nietzschean Marxists and,
204
,
208

and realms of life,
554

and religion as “slave morality,” 204,
209

science and,
540

World War I impact on,
240

See also
specific person’s views

Morison, Samuel Eliot,
66

Mormons,
178

Morrison, Jim,
421
–22

Morton, Frederic,
278
–79

Mother Teresa,
383

Motherwell, Robert,
397
,
400

Munch, Edvard,
111
,
120
–21

Munich putsch (1923),
321
–22

Murdoch, Iris,
58
n,
452
–53,
464

Murray, Gilbert,
38
,
180

Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism,
218

music,
115
,
160
,
213
,
230
–31,
245
,
395
–97,
410
,
416
–23,
424
,
505
,
550
.
See also
dance;
type of music

Musil, Robert,
232
–37,
301
,
432
,
514
,
533
,
537

Muslims.
See
Islam

Mussolini, Benito,
314
,
317
n

My Dinner with Andre
(Malle film),
439
–40

Myrdal, Gunnar,
333
–34

mysticism:

arts and,
484

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

and limits of wholeness,
539

scientific,
250

shadow culture and,
178
–79

See also
specific person’s views

mythology:

of avant-garde,
118

Beckett’s views about,
391

Ivanov’s views about,
207

Joyce’s views about,
267

Jung’s views about,
286
,
288
,
289

religion as,
292

science as,
481

of wholeness,
290
–93,
294

Wilson’s (E. O.) views about,
480
–81

Yeats’s use of,
173
,
176
,
267

Nagel, Thomas,
507
–12

and beauty,
512

and chance,
509

and change,
509

and consciousness,
508
,
509
,
511

Nagel, Thomas (
continued
)

and creationism,
509
,
510

and Darwinism,
509
,
510

and ego,
511

and evolution,
4
,
508
–9,
510
,
517
,
540

and existence,
3
–4,
507
,
523

and extinction,
510

and intention,
509

and intuition,
507

and language,
507
–8,
511

and materialism,
4

and meaning,
507
,
554

and metaphysics,
533

and mind,
508
–9

and morals,
508
–9,
511
,
548

objectivity and,
507
–8,
511
–12

and other,
554

and philosophy,
162
,
507

and physics,
508
,
509

and reality,
507
–8,
518

and reason,
508

and relationship of religion and secular world,
5

and science,
507
,
508

and self,
512
,
536

and subjectivity,
507
–8,
511
–12

and supernatural,
507

and theism,
4

and transcendence,
508
,
509
,
546

and truth,
508
–9

and unity,
512

and universe,
509
,
521

and values,
508
,
524

Nagel, Thomas—works by:

The Last Word,
507

Mind and Cosmos,
4,
508
,
509
,
510
,
511

Mortal Questions,
507

Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament,
3

The View from Nowhere,
507,
511

What Does It All Mean?
507

naming,
149
–50,
262
,
266
,
462
–65,
542
,
550
–54,
555
,
556

narcissism,
439
,
511

narrative,
6
,
498
–99,
538
–39,
547
,
548
,
550
,
554

National Association for Evangicals,
360