The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (93 page)

Wilson, David Sloan,
474
–75,
538
,
548

Wilson, Edmund,
240
,
334

Wilson, E. O.,
478
–85,
488
,
490
,
517
,
546

Winter, Jay,
180
,
181
–82,
196

Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung
philosophy,
273

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
55
,
273
,
274
,
275
,
299
–303,
340
,
384
,
436
,
537
,
539

Wolters, Friedrich,
156
,
158

women:

Beckett’s views about,
390

Bogdanov’s views about,
210

as clergy,
367

desire and,
554

in drama,
92

Dworkin’s views about,
547

emancipation of,
547

equality of,
334

Gorky’s views about,
210

Islamic/Muslim,
219
,
547

Joyce’s comments about living with,
268
,
271

Lawrence’s views about,
271

modern dance and,
44

modern married,
138

Musil’s views about,
237

Nietzsche’s views about,
547

in 1950s,
367
–68

Stevens’s views about,
547

truth as,
547

values and,
547

Wells’s views about married,
138

Woolf’s views about,
260

Wood, James,
457
,
458
,
460
,
464
,
534
–35

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Conference (1992),
482

Woodstock: counterculture and,
422
,
424

Woolf, Leonard,
79
,
154
,
257

Woolf, Virginia,
125
,
232
,
233
,
257
–63,
265
,
272
,
535
,
537
,
538
,
540

Woolf, Virginia—works by:

“Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” 257

To the Lighthouse,
260–61

“An Unwritten Novel,” 261

The Waves,
232,
260

Wordsworth, William,
8
,
80
,
93
,
466
,
556

work/workers,
202
–3,
213
,
214
,
217
–19,
308
,
453

world:

“caring” for the,
224
,
225
,
227
,
487

end of the,
8
–9

ideal,
494

love of the,
440

as machine,
76
–77

objective,
511
–12

purpose in,
210

subjective,
511
–12

theosophy and,
168

theothanatology and,
385

as unfinished,
556

World Parliament of Religions,
179

World Values Survey,
11
,
20
,
21

World War I:

aftermath of,
329
,
330

beginning of,
187
–91,
195

Christianity and,
188
,
196

community and,
191
–93,
200

“Crisis Theology” and,
312

cruelty in,
450

death in,
240

ending of,
201

existentialism and,
336

Futurists and,
117
–18

heroes and,
189
,
190

impact of,
211
,
240
,
295

irony and,
195
–96

machine in,
117
–18

metal in,
117
–18

nationalism and,
191
,
200

patriotism and,
191

poetry and,
146
,
189
–90,
193
,
194
–95,
197

psychic phenomena and,
196

redemption and,
189
,
192
,
193
,
197

religion and,
195

socialism and,
193

spiritualism and,
196

welcoming of,
189
–91,
200

See also
specific nation or specific person’s views

World War II,
24
,
51
,
219
,
329
,
332
,
334
,
346
–47,
359
–60,
380
,
387
.
See also
atomic bomb

Wotan, cult of,
318
,
380

Yaroslavsky, Emelian,
215
,
216

Yeats, John Butler,
165
,
166
,
169
,
171
,
173
,
175
,
176

Yeats, W. B.:

achievements of,
176

androgynous man and,
268

art/arts and,
164
,
165
,
172

automatic writing and,
198

chaos and,
164

choice and,
538

Christianity and,
171
,
172

and drama,
173
–74

ecstasy and,
537

and evil,
175

evolution and,
176

and exalted Yeatsism,
174
–76

as failure,
166
,
176

and fate,
174

Yeats, W. B. (
continued
)

fears of,
174

Four Faculties of,
174

George compared with,
151

Gide and,
128
,
130

and God,
175

as Golden Dawn member,
170

and good,
175

and happiness,
164

and heroes,
170
–74,
175
,
176

and history,
169
,
174

Ibsen compared with,
95

and imagination,
175
,
176

imagination and,
175
,
176

and intensity,
461

Ireland and,
169
,
170
–72,
173

and joy,
164

life and,
164
,
175

logic and,
164

and love,
164

Mallarmé’s influence on,
147
,
164

marriage of,
174

mask and,
172
,
173
,
174

and materialism,
166
,
169
,
171
–72,
173
,
176

and meaning,
164

and metaphors,
173

and mind,
174

mysticism/occult and,
166
,
167
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
172
,
175
,
176
,
182

mythology and,
173
,
176
,
267

nationalism and,
166
,
170
–71,
172
,
175
,
176

Nietzsche’s influence on,
163
–64

and order,
163
–66

patriotism and,
171

and perfection,
172

and personality,
164
,
174
,
538

and philosophy,
175

and poetry,
147
,
164
,
165

and psychology,
176

and rationality,
169

and reality,
169

and reason,
164

religion and,
164
,
165
,
173

and salvation,
164

self and,
461

sensations and,
169

significance of,
176

soul and,
174

spirituality and,
165
,
172
,
173

and supernatural,
169
,
172
,
176
,
179

Symbolists influence on,
164

Theosophy and,
168
,
169
,
170

tragedy and,
164

transcendence and,
165

and unity,
172
–73

and wholeness,
164

will and,
174

Yeats, W. B.—works by:

At the Hawk’s Well,
174

“The Autumn of the Body,” 165

“The Black Tower,” 176

“Byzantium,” 175

“The Choice,” 95

Countess Cathleen: A Miracle Play,
172

The Hour-Glass: A Morality,
172

Per America Silentia Lunae,
173

A Vision,
174,
175
,
176

Where There Is Nothing,
172

yoga,
58
,
414
,
427

Young, Lester,
403
,
404

youth:

communist,
211
–12,
215

in Germany,
43
,
51
,
321

as Nietzsche followers,
24
–25,
36
,
37

vagabondage influence on,
42

Zamyatin, Yevgeny,
450
,
543

Zen Buddhism,
395
,
402
,
412
,
414
,
415

Zen potters,
394
,
395

Zweig, Stefan,
157
,
189

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