The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (88 page)

National Commission on Children,
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National Committee for Mental Hygiene,
351

nationalism,
166
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–71,
172
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200
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315
–16,
322
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324

Native American traditions,
416
–17

natural selection,
57
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481
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486
–87,
508
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511
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542
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551

“naturalistic fallacy” concept, Moore’s,
81
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nature/Nature,
40
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61
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121
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151
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177
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337
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541
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See also
specific person’s views

Nazis:

“blood flag” of,
321

“blood and soil” concept of,
313
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317
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319
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323

Catholicism and,
314
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319
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322
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324
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325

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

community and,
315

ethics and,
314
,
315

Evangelical Church and,
313

God and,
322

and God is dead,
314

heroes and,
320
,
322

history and,
317

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

Marxism and,
315

materialism and,
311
,
315

modernism and,
311

Protestants and,
314
,
315
,
322
,
324

race and,
315
–22

religion and,
310
–25

Saxon tradition and,
321

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specific person’s views

“negative exuberance” concept, Bloom’s,
406
–7

Neruda, Pablo,
449
,
461

Neurath, Otto,
273
,
274

neurosis,
83
–89,
239
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241
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281
,
288
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290
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358
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438

“New Age,” 500

New Thought,
178

New York Psychoanalytic Institute,
356

Newton, Isaac,
110
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303
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305
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429
,
436
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465
,
470

Nietzsche, Elizabeth Förster,
35
,
38

Nietzsche, Friedrich:

Altizer and,
383

and Andreas-Salomé marriage proposal,
227
,
436

and art,
36
–38,
39
–40,
48
–50,
292
,
455

avant-garde influence of,
39
–40

as to blame for current predicament,
22

as blamed for two world wars,
24
,
51
,
187
–88

“cargo of life” concept of,
25

and chaos,
25

and Christianity,
37
,
97

and community,
205

and consciousness,
292

core insight of,
25

cult of,
36
,
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,
50

Darwinism and,
52
,
205

death of,
24

and Dionysianism,
26
,
554

Duncan’s views about,
47

Dworkin and,
520

eternal recurrence concept of,
26
,
175
,
385

and evil,
205

Expressionism and,
48
–49

and facts,
25

fame of,
33
,
34
,
36
–38

and German academic philosophy,
83

Germanness of,
33
,
34
,
321

Gide and,
128

God is dead announcement of,
3
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4
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7
–8,
24
,
148
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210
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253
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377
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454
,
532
–33,
544
,
554

greatest irony for,
33

happiness of,
436

Heidegger’s lectures about,
225

and heroes,
188

and hope,
546

Ibsen as response to,
94

illness/“black melancholy” of,
22
–23,
24
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33
,
34
–35

individualism and,
204
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205

influence of,
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,
84
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91
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98
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128
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160
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–64,
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204
–14,
253
–54,
263
–64,
330
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383
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422
,
520

and instinct,
122
,
292

Joyce and,
263
–64

legacy of,
24

and life,
25
,
26
,
269

and literature,
292

and love,
164

Marxism and,
38
,
204
–14

and metaphysics,
26

modernism and,
37

and morality,
292

Morrison’s music and,
422

as Musil role model,
234

mythologizing of,
38

naming and,
462

nihilism of,
545

O’Neill and,
250
,
253
–54

and optimism,
546

and passions,
25

personal and professional background of,
288

as phenomenon,
22
–24,
29

as philosopher of death,
188
,
210

popularity of,
34
–35,
36
–38,
52

psychology influence of,
49

Rank and,
84

and rationality,
25
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205

religion and,
204
,
209
,
253
,
292

Ricoeur’s views about,
292

and salvation,
25
–26

and science,
205

and self,
99

and sex,
292

and socialism,
209

Strindberg and,
98

style of,
23
,
24
,
26
,
33

Superman concept of,
34
,
103
,
253
,
320

and tragedy,
253

and transcendence,
25

and truth,
547

Übermensch
concept of,
35
,
39
,
50
–52,
253

Valéry and,
160

and will,
205

and will to power concept,
25
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26
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35
,
40
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207
,
324

and women,
547

and World War I,
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51
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–88

writings about,
37
,
52
,
187
–88

Yeats and,
163
–64

youth as followers of,
24
–25

Nietzsche, Friedrich—works by:

Die Geburt der Tragodie,
45

Ecce Homo,
188

The Gay Science,
23,
35

hymnals as delaying publication of,
23
,
33

Thus Spake Zarathustra,
23,
27
,
33
,
36
,
46
,
188
,
212

Tille as editor of English edition of,
51

nihilism,
24
,
39
,
50
,
330
,
429
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450
,
469
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476
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512
,
545

Norris, Pippa,
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Norton, Robert,
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nothingness,
92
,
95
,
130
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146
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246
,
377
,
451

Novak, Michael,
412
–13

Nozick, Robert,
502
–3,
516
–19,
523
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524
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528
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536
–37,
548
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549

Oates, Joyce Carol,
444

objectivity,
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507
–8,
511
–12

observation,
288
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460
,
553

occult,
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–72,
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specific doctrine

oceanic feeling, Freud’s,
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–72,
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,
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Oedipus complex, Freud’s,
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,
357

Olson, Charles,
394
,
401
,
404

omega point concept,
493
–94,
544

O’Neill, Eugene,
235
,
249
–56,
266
,
435
,
537
,
540
,
542

O’Neill, Eugene—works by:

Days without End,
251

Dynamo,
251,
255

The Iceman Cometh,
249,
251
–52,
254

Lazarus Laughed,
251

Long Day’s Journey into Night,
249,
251
,
252
–53,
255
,
435

More Stately Mansions,
254

Mourning Becomes Electra,
249

Oppenheim, Méret,
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–99

optimism,
116
–17,
119
,
287
,
351
,
361
,
363
,
367
–68,
546
,
547

Option Institute and Fellowship,
433

order,
160
–61,
162
,
163
–66,
340
,
387
,
398
,
460
–62,
536

Ortega y Gasset, José,
428
,
544

Other Condition, Musil’s,
235
–37,
301
,
514

other/otherness:

counterculture and,
411

drugs as means for controlling,
442

of God,
382
,
535
,
555

helping,
506

meaning and,
554

postmodernism and,
498
,
499
–500

respect for,
548

St. Augustine and,
536
n

Steiner’s views about,
455

warm,
272

See also
specific person’s views

Owen, Wilfred,
194
,
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,
448
–49

Pacelli, Eugenio (aka Pius XI),
314

pain.
See
suffering/pain

painting,
245
–46,
257
,
397
–400

parent-child relationship,
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,
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–87,
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,
263
,
272
,
282
,
354
–55,
360
,
518

Pareto, Vilfredo,
192

Paris, France:

existentialism in,
334
–35,
339

in post–World War II years,
334
–35

Parker, Charlie “Bird,” 387,
393
, 393n,
396
,
397
,
430

participation mystique, Jung’s,
286

Pascal, Blaise,
346
,
436

passions,
25
,
270
,
271
,
272
,
303

past:

no meaning in,
119
–22

See also
history

pastoral psychology/counseling,
352
,
360
–62

pastoralism: radical,
226
–27

patriotism,
171
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191
,
200

Paul, Saint,
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,
316
,
353

Pauling, Linus,
545

“peak experiences,” Maslow’s,
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–15,
537

Peale, Norman Vincent,
352
,
360

Péguy, Charles,
110
,
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Peirce, Benjamin,
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,
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Peirce, Charles,
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,
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Pentecostals,
14

perception,
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121
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130
,
149
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343
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534

perfection,
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,
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376
,
545
.
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specific person’s views

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