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20th Century Questioning of Reason
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 10, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
utilities, countryside, desire, economies, Enlightenment, public, utopian, sufficiency, consumption, deepest, irrational, worry, lost, promising, Pissarro, mythology, reason, delinquent, capitalism, suffragettes, possessions, anchor, optimism, sociology, gentlemen, channel, Rouen, inner, anxiety, traditions, bureaucracy, temptation, dark, materialism, reason, vulnerable
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protest movements
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the right to be included in              life
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the right to be included in the interdependent system of                   
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                         argued that they deserved these rights because they were reasonable creatures as well
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people began to wonder about this faith in the ability of people to             
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could rationality from the 18th century characterize the nature of the modern age
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where all humans capable of being reasonable creatures
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this faith began to be infected by               
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economic forces were creating                      creatures
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modernity and modernization was producing the opposite of what the                            figures had once optimistically projected forward
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mass society was becoming a concern
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no longer were cities the home of                    salons
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they were becoming the centers of                       , often out of control
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cities became crowded, noisy, crime-ridden spaces that were not the products of the Enlightenment that was once promised
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villages were coming apart and losing their                     
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Impressionism
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Camille                  (1830-1903)
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Le pont Boïeldieu à           , soleil couchant, temps brumeux (1896)
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the city is crowded and gray
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the smoke and fumes are the dominant factor
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he also had beautiful paintings of the                       
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he was capturing here the sense that the community is being          and replaced with society
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the church and mosque are no longer the buildings that              the community
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but factories
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was pulling back the veil
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disclose something more primeval about our natures
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order was being undone
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the philosophers of the 18th century had indicated that we should not worry since we all have an innate capacity to             
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but people were beginning to           
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the social sciences
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resulted from an emerging concern for society
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John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
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not just an economist but in many ways a sociologist, psychologist, political scientist
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sociology, psychology and political science were all disciplines born in the late 19th century
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these sciences were torn between an earlier                  about an Enlightenment faith and the discontents about what modernization was breeding
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the mechanism creating this world threatened to despoil individual's singularity and particularity
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Max Weber (1864-1920)
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made the case for modernization
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became the founder of modern                   
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the nature of modernization subjective human beings to ubiquitous rules, routines, enforced punctuality, mindless toil, losing their souls, and disenchantment with everyday life, and being governed by                       , a word that in the 20th century gained increasing currency as people felt that they were being ruled by these invisible, inanimate organizations
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Protestantism was an important force in producing                     
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also concerned that this newly, inquisitive self, this consumer, was losing their soul
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modernization threatened to create a                world in which machines are masquerading as men
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José Enrique Rodó (1871-1917)
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denounced                       
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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nobody who incarnated this materialist spirit than the India Mahatma Gandhi
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wears very little
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demonstrates the denial of material                       
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suggests that we should go back to tradition
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making clothes that we make for ourselves
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it gets destroyed in the course of interdependence
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simple work for self-                      
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many started to begin to argue against the Enlightenment movement
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we are much more governed by passion, unreason and             
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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the founder in some respects of psychology
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1900 The Interpretation of Dreams
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you can get a glimpse of people's            worlds
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it is full of darkness, passion, and desire, and not ration, calculating intention
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was fascinated by the role of                   
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Greek myths and other myths that told tales of our inner lives
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humans are at their base sexual animals with basic passions, not just the calculating, possessive, individualists seeking property and maximizing their                   
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this was not altogether new
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what he did was to systematize this thought and burrowed the               
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we are not just ruled by our consciousness but we carried around with an an engine of unconsciousness
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these desires need to be process or repressed and expressed in other ways
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so the triumph of civilization was not the triumph of reason
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but our ability to contain, repress, and                ourselves
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we see the emergence of the modern social sciences
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seeking to explain the modern condition and its pathologies
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psychology associated with criminology
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women were seen by many to be the most                     
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Cesar Lombroso (1835–1909)
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book: La Donna Delinquente
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the                      woman
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her pose on the cover of his book: one of                      in front of pigs
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the          side of human nature gained focus in the 20th century
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something in the air that was producing these anxieties even when modernity was                    so much

People:

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Uruguayan essayist who called for the youth of Latin America to reject materialism, to revert to Greco-Roman habits of virtuous thought and self enrichment, and to develop and concentrate on their culture
  • exchanged letters with important Hispanic thinkers of the time such as Leopoldo Alas in Spain
  • Rodó is today considered the preeminent theorist of the modernista school of literature
  • is best known for his essay Ariel (1900), drawn from The Tempest, in which Ariel represents the positive, and Caliban represents the negative tendencies in human nature, and they debate the future course of history
  • Rodó intended Ariel to be a secular sermon to Latin American youth, championing the cause of the classical western tradition
  • spoke out against debilitating effect of working individuals' limited existence doing the same work, over and over again, never having time to develop the spirit
  • denounced pragmatic utilitarianism, i.e. the philosophical movement that considered utility as the way to bring the most happiness to all those affected by it
  • argued that utilitarianism causes individuals to become specialized in very specific fields and as an effect of such specialization, they end up receiving an incomplete, deformed education
  • warns against nordomanía, or the attraction of North America and argues for the importance of regional identity and how it should be rooted deeply into every country

Ideas and Concepts:

Via this morning's History of the World Since 1300 class: "The disciplines of sociology, psychology and political science were all disciplines born in the late 19th century, attempts to apply science to the situation of societies increasingly torn between an earlier optimism of an Enlightenment faith and the discontents about what modernization was breeding."
Thoughts on modernity via this evening's History of the World Since 1300 class: "Max Weber (1864-1920), the founder of modern sociology, warned that the nature of modernization would increasingly subject human beings to ubiquitous rules, routines, enforced punctuality, and mindless toil. It would convert people into consumers who gradually lose their souls, become disenchanted with everyday life, and would be forever governed by bureaucracy, a word that in the 20th century gained increasing currency as people began to feel that they were being ruled by these newly created, invisible, inanimate organizations."
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Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
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17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
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Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
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1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
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The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
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The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
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1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
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The 1910 Mexican Revolution
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