Read The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God Online
Authors: Peter Watson
Torgoff, Martin,
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tragedy,
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transcendence:
counterculture and,
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dancing as,
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emptiness and,
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existentialists and,
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as fundmental to belief,
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impossibility of,
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as non-phenomenon,
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phenomenology and,
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poetry’s achievements and,
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search for,
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“semantic,” 148
size of life and,
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unity and,
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specific person’s views
“transcendent impulse,” 4,
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“transitional object” concept, Beckett’s,
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Trilling, Diana,
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Trilling, Lionel,
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truth:
Abstract Expressionism and,
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art and,
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community and,
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counterculture and,
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drugs and,
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ethics and,
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God and,
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Impressionism and,
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Jewish views about,
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Marxism-Leninism and,
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of mathematics,
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modernism and,
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objective,
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pragmatism and,
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redemptive,
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spontaneity and,
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war and,
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and wholeness via juxtaposition,
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specific person’s views
Tucker, Sophie,
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Turin Exposition (1902): Behrens design of,
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Turing, Alan,
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Übermensch
concept, Nietzsche’s,
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unconscious:
Abstract Expressionism and,
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collective,
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and God as archetype,
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improvisation and,
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modern dance and,
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as mystical,
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pottery and,
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soul and,
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surrealism and,
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specific person’s views
“undeniable hardness” concept,
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Unitarians,
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United Methodist Church,
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United States:
as failure,
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“psychological turn” in,
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shadow culture in,
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Yeltsin visit to,
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unity,
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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universality,
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universe:
“big crunch” in,
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counterculture’s views about,
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evolution and,
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God and,
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ideal,
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as machine,
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omega point concept and,
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as a “physical process,” 509
role of human beings in,
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unity and,
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specific person’s views
unsettlement: doubt and,
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“Use is life” motto, Shaw’s,
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utopia/utopians,
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socialism: utopian
Valéry, Paul,
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biology and,
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chaos and,
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emotions and,
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as European “pragmatist,” 71
evolution and,
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high art and,
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and ideal,
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immortality and,
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and intellect,
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and love,
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Mallarmé’s influence on,
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and mathematics,
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and music,
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and nature,
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Nietzsche’s influence on,
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perception and,
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and perfection,
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personal and professional background of,
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as phenomenologist,
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poetry and,
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and relationships,
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Rilke and,
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and universe,
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and values,
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Wells and,
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Valéry, Paul (
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and wholeness,
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and will,
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Yeats compared with,
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value/values,
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van Buren, Paul,
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Van Gogh, Vincent,
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Vatican II (1962–65),
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verification,
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veterans, military,
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Vienna Circle,
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Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute,
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visual arts, importance of,
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vocabulary.
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language
völkisch
movement,
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Vornehmheit
concept, Simmel’s,
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Wagner, Richard,
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waiting concept,
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Waiting for Godot
(Beckett),
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war,
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“warmth of acts,” 344–45,
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“weak thought,” 513
wealth.
See
affluence
Weber, Max,
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Weiss, Yitshak,
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well-being,
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Wells, H. G.,
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Wells, H. G.—works by:
Anticipations of the Results of Mechanical and Scientific Progress,
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The Foods of the Gods,
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Mankind in the Making,
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Mi
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osz’s study of,
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A Modern Utopia,
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New World for Old,
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The Outline of History,
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The World Set Free,
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Western religions/philosophy,
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specific philosophy or religion
Whitehead, Alfred North,
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wholeness:
definition of moral,
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desire and,
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happiness and,
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idea of,
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Impressionism and sense of,
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juxtaposition and,
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limits of,
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New Age and,
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phenomenology and,
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and “psychological turn” in America,
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retreat from idea of,
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secular reason and,
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spontaneity and,
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World War I and,
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specific person’s views
wickedness: Liebman’s views about,
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Wiesel, Elie,
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will,
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will to power;
specific person’s views
will to power,
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Williams, Tennessee,
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Williams, William Carlos,
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