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Modern culture
Modern Culture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| German philosopher who greatly inspired existentialism and published such works as "Beyond Good and Evil" | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Analytic Philosopher and linguist, author of Tracatus Logico- Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Philosophical school that emphasized the belief that observational knowledge coupled with mathematical and linguistic knowledge was the only way to understand the world. | Logical Positivism |
| Philosophical school that emphasized the primacy of the individual in determining their life's meaning | Existentialism |
| French existentialist and author of works such as "No Exit" | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| French existentialist author of works such as "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sissyphus" | Albert Camus |
| Danish philosopher and father of existentialism | Soren Kierkegaard |
| Husband and wife pair who made groundbreaking advances in the study of radioactivity | Marie and Pierre Curie |
| Scientist who proposed that light was quantized | Max Planck |
| Dude who discovered the photoelectric effect. Also had something to do with relativity? | Albert Einstein |
| Scientist who conducted the Gold Foil Experiment that revealed much about the structure of the atom | Ernest Rutherford |
| Scientist who formulated a namesake "Uncertainty Principle," forming the foundations of quantum mechanics | Werner Heisenberg |
| Psychologist who proposed the idea of the collective unconscious. | Carl Jung |
| Form of narration designed to resemble an individual's thought process | Stream of consciousness |
| Modernist poets of such masterpieces as "The Hollow Men," and "The Waste Land" | T.S Eliot |
| Czech author of such strange and alienating works as "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis" | Franz Kafka |
| English author of Mrs. Dalloway. All about acknowledging some emptiness at the heart of modern life. | Virginia Woolfe |
| English Socialist who criticized England's imperialism and wrote "1984" | George Orwell |
| Sociological concept that emphasizes viewing society as a series of interrelated parts that function together. | Functionalism |
| French architect who pioneered the International style | Le Corbusier |
| German architect who designed the Pan Am Building | Walter Gropius |
| The architectural school founded by Gropius. Not a German night club. | Bauhaus |
| Modernist architect who designed the Seagram Building and is famous for saying "less is more" | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Artistic movement that began in Zurich during WWI and focused on rejecting all current standards of art | Dadaism |
| Artistic movement that focused on breaking apart and re-organizing images, exemplified by works like "Guernica" | Cubism |
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