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Boutroux, Émile,
142
–43
brain: size of,
517
Braque, Georges,
111
Brecht, Bertolt,
422
Brentano, Franz,
72
Breton, André,
198
Breuer, Josef,
59
“bricolage” beliefs,
499
–500,
501
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
Butler, Christopher,
264
“the calling”: Weber’s views about,
259
–60
Cambridge Conversazione Society “the Apostles,” 77–78,
303
Camus, Albert,
329
–30,
331
,
339
,
349
capitalism:
counterculture and,
410
existentialists and,
336
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
See also
specific person’s views
Capra, Fritjof,
490
“cargo of life”: Nietzsche’s views about,
25
caring:
as layer of ethics,
516
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
Chagall, Marc,
111
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,
316
,
319
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
Chekhov, Anton,
97
,
105
–9,
265
,
536
chemistry: physics links with,
542
,
545
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
Horney’s views about,
359
and “new spirit” in art,
123
,
124
Russell’s views about,
308
science education for,
541
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
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
Positive,
314
–15
shadow culture and,
179
as “slave morality,” 204,
209
theosophy and spiritualism as giving credibility to,
197
theothanatology and,
383
–84,
385
See also
fundamentalism, religious;
specific person’s views
church:
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
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
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
See also
specific person’s views
computers/computer science,
494
,
499
consciousness:
as absolute,
72
Abstract Expressionism and,
398
“beat” writing and,
404
cosmic,
538
counterculture and,
410
,
411
,
415
,
417
,
419
,
425
–26,
427
happiness and,
434
Impressionism and,
112
New Age and,
500
and “new spirit” in art,
124
pragmatism and,
72
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
“cool,” 393–94
“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
happiness and,
437
identity and,
438
individualism and,
437
Marxism and,
411
morals and,
425
–27
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
science and,
410
,
413
,
426
,
427
,
428
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