Modern Mind

754
gluons, 667
God: proofs of existence, 30–1
gorillas: studied, 610–11, 618
‘great attractor’ (cosmology), 755
Great Depression (1930s), 340–2, 519, 646
‘Great Refusal’ (Mercuse), 503
Great Society (USA), 375, 376–7, 516, 518, 521–2, 533, 536, 596, 654
Great Terror (USSR), 320–3, 334, 386
Great War (1914–18)
see
World War I
‘green’ movement, 585
greenhouse effect
see
global warming
growth (economic), 648–50
guanine, 480
gulag (USSR), 541–4
hallucinogenic substances, 597
heart transplants
see
transplants (organ)
Hinduism, 762
historicism, 379–81, 557–64, 632
history: and progress, 254–5; ‘wars’, 728–9
Holocaust, 352, 435, 734–5, 764;
see also
Jews
homme révolté,
I’, 409, 628
Homo
genus
see
man: origins and fossil evidence
homosexuality: and AIDS, 657–8, 662; in Genet, 415–16; and liberalisation, 526; and Mann’s
Death in Venice
, 135–6; prevalence, 529; in Proust, 199–200
hormones, 102
human genome project, 615, 700, 738
hydrogen bomb, 506–8
identity crisis, 506
ideology: end of, 447–9, 753, 760; false consciousness of, 632
idioplasm, 33
ignorance: as veil, 548–9
Immaculate Conception, 68
immortality: prospect of, 755
immunosuppressants, 659–60
imperialism, 48, 50;
see also
decolonisation
Impressionism, 27–8, 59, 64, 127–8
Index of Prohibited Books (Catholic Church), 297
individualism, 27;
see also
narcissism
infantile sexuality, 13, 34
inflation (in early universe), 741
information technology, 605;
see also
Internet
innate releasing mechanisms
see
animal behaviour
inner-directed people, 433
insanity
see
mental illness
Insight, 598
Intelligence Quotient (IQ): and Bell Curve, 698–9; and educational
attainment, 533–4; tests, 146–50, 206, 375, 533, 535
intentional fallacy, the, 635
intercesseurs, 61
Interface Message Processor (IMP), 737
intermediate technology, 586
international style (art and architecture), 331–2, 622
Internet, 736–8
interpretation (in art forms), 515
intuition: in science, 471–2
IQ
see
Intelligence Quotient
Islam, 761–2
jet propulsion, 268–70, 365
justice, 517–19, 548–9, 677–9;
see also
liberty
K/T boundary, 686, 688
Kaposi’s sarcoma, 657
kerygma,
576–7
‘kitchen-sink’ drama, 463–4
Kitsch,
221
knowledge: forms of, 667–72, 676–7, 757–8, 760; limits to, 755, 764–6
Kristallnacht (1938), 394
laissez-faire
(economics), 41
‘Lamb shift’, 508
language: classification of, 690–2; and deconstruction, 631–2; formation and learning of, 497, 695; as instinct, 695; as mental construct, 630–1; and modes of discourse, 626; origins of, 689–91, 695, 696–7;
see also
Mother Tongue
lentiviruses, 660
leukemia, 658–60
liberalism: and education, 30–2; and equality, 519; and intellectual tradition, 452; and narcissism, 600
liberty (freedom), 517–19, 544–51, 579, 645, 753
libraries (early), 251
life: origins of, 684–6, 748–9
life force
(élan vital),
66–7
light: nature of, 94–5, 260
Linear A and B scripts (Crete), 16
lions: studied, 608, 611, 618
living standards, 647–8
logic: Wittgenstein’s theory of, 159–61
logical positivism, 235, 306, 766
longue durée, la
, 559–60, 563, 624, 752
LSD, 502
lynchings: in USA, 283
M-theory, 745
Mach number, 36
magic: in religions, 602–3
magic realism (literary), 706–9
magnetic anomalies, 553–4
man: distribution and migration, 555—6, 564, 689–92, 752, 754; origins and fossil evidence, 370–2, 484–7, 555, 607, 612–14, 675, 688–9
March on the Pentagon (1967), 538
March on Washington (1963), 523
Marxism: and Budapest Sunday Circle, 180; and culture, 466; and Darwinism, 319–21; and Frankfurt School, 224–5; and French existentialists, 410–11; and Freud, 225, 437, 752; and history, 561–2; Popper on, 380; resurgence in France, 625–6, 632–3, 752; and revisionism, 235; scientists’ adherence to, 316; and socio-economic change, 445; Weber refutes, 46; and women’s liberation, 530;
see also
communism
masochism, 34
mass society: and conformity, 503; and counterculture, 595
mathematics: as abstract concept, 677; foundations of, 24, 98–102; and German refugees to USA, 352–3; and Gödel’s theorem, 270–1; journals, 351–2; limits to, 764; and phenomenology, 31; and understanding of life, 747–9, 751; and wartime code-breaking, 362–4
matrix math, 260
May 4 movement (China), 178–9
Me generation, 599
media: ‘hot’ and ‘cool’, 547; mass, 754, 766–7; new forms of, 210–12, 218–19, 285, 547–8
Medicare (USA),