Vatican Ecumenical Council, Second (Vatican II), 579–80
Vauxcelles, Louis, 60, 62
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 311, 319—21, 323
Veblen, Oswald, 352
Veblen, Thorsten, 41–2
Vemork, Norway, 400
Veneziano, Gabriele, 744–5
Venus (novel), 104
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 173–8, 273
Vertov, Dziga, 168
Vienna: aesthetics in, 29; anti-Semitism in, 94, 192, 243; child psychology in, 499; Circle, 37, 75, 235–6, 270, 306, 379; coffee houses in, 27; consequences of 1919 peace in, 180; Freud in, 12, 14; Grienstiedl Cafe, 28, 34, 56; Jung Wien group in, 28; Karl Kraus in, 192–3; preeminence in ideas, 26–8, 30–3, 36–7, 56; Ringstrasse, 26, 34–5; Secession artists, Jugendstil 35; Therapeutic nihilism in, 27
Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 15
Vietnam: US war in, 533, 536, 538, 585
Vilcabamba (Inca city), 118–19, 121
Vincennes, University of (Paris), 627
Vinci, Leonardo da, 252
Vkhutemas school, Moscow, 165
Vlaminck, Maurice de, 60, 409
Vollard, Ambroise, 62
Vries, Hugo de, 17–18, 36, 112–14, 318
Vuillard, Edouard, 59
Vulpian, Daniel, 103
Waddington, C. H.: The Scientific Attitude, 378
Wagner, Cosima, 53
Wagner, Otto, 34–5
Wagner, Richard, 56, 61, 128, 171; Tannhäuser, 45
Wagner-Jauregg, Julius von, 151–2
Wain, John, 464
Waiden, Herwarth, 300
Walker, A’Lelia, 215
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple, 705
Walker, Kenneth, 147
Wall Street crash (1929), 273, 326, 340, 646
Wallace, De Witt, 211
Waller, Fats, 216
Walling, William, 108–9, 111
Walpole, Sir Robert, 231
Walter, Bruno, 158, 357
Walters, Barbara, 599
Warburg, Aby, 223, 305
Warburg Institute of Art, 223, 226, 305
Ward, Barbara, 583
Ward, Lester, 41
Warhol, Andy, 331, 510–12, 514
Warner, Sam, 87
Washington, Booker T., 109–11, 458
Washington University Medical School, St Louis, Missouri, 426
Wassermann, August, 105
Watson, James Dewey, 375, 478–81, 700
Watson, John B., 112
Watts, Harry, 328
Weatherall, Sir David, 666
Weatherall, Miles, 660
Webb, Beatrice, 188, 292–4, 383
Webb, Sidney, 187, 292–4, 306, 383; Soviet Communism (with Beatrice
Webb), 292
Webb, W. L., 544
Weber, Max, 45–8, 56, 74, 112, 173, 188, 236, 432, 440, 593; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 46–7
Webern, Anton von, 37, 56, 230, 313, 623
Webster, H. C., 262
Wedekind, Frank, 16, 64, 231
Wegener, Alfred, 122–3, 553
Weidenreich, Franz, 371
Weill, Kurt, 222, 231–2, 313
Weimar Republic, 173, 221–4, 226, 228, 231, 244
Weinberg, Robert, 661
Weinberg, Steven, 743; The First Three Minutes, 570–1
Weininger, Otto, 12, 32–3, 35, 59, 194, 199
Weinstock, Dr Harry, 493
Weiss, Peter: Marat/Sade, 640–1
Weizmann, Chaim, 307
Welles, Orson, 348–9
Wells, H. G., I, 48, 340, 383; War of the Worlds, 348
Wen Chung-pei, 577
Werfel, Franz, 161, 354, 357
Weschler, Lawrence, 357
Wesker, Arnold, 464
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence, 209
Wheeler, John, 572
Whistler, James McNeill, 24, 35
White, E. B., 218
White, Harry Dexter, 389
White, Michael, 96
White, Tim, 613–14
Whitehead, Alfred North, 24, 58, 98, 100–2, 185, 271, 451; Principia Mathematica (with Bertrand Russell), Whitman, Walt, 726
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 127
Whittle, Frank, 268–70
Whole Earth Catalogue, 595
Whyte, W. H.: Organisation Man, 438–40, 457, 584
Wickramasinghe, Chandra, 762
Wiene, Robert, 222
Wigan, 287
Wigner, Eugene, 180, 396, 507
Wilde, Oscar, 24, 39, 43; Salomé, 53
Wilder, Burt, 108
Wilder, Thornton, 409
Wilkins, A. F., 366
Wilkins, Maurice, 375, 478–81
Williams, Raymond, 235, 331, 465–8, 632, 634–5, 715–16; Culture and Society, 466
Williams, Robley, 749
Williamson, Henry, 581
Wilson, Allan, 689–90
Wilson, Edmund, 137
Wilson, Edward O., 616–18, 620, 651, 692–3, 698, 731; Consilience, 771; Sociobiology, 618
Wilson, Harold, 384
Wilson, Robert, 569–70
Wilson, Woodrow, 112, 174, 177
Winckelmann, Johann, 54–5
Winston, Brian, 739
Winter, Jay, 6; Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning, 157
Wirth, Louis: The Ghetto, 282
Wisconsin Plan, The, 383
Wissler, Clark, 212
Witten, Edward, 744–5
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: analytical philosophy, 32, 75; attends Königsberg conference, 270; and Beckett, 418; and Bertrand Russell, 99, 158–60; Dworkin cites, 644; family and career, 158–9; in World
War I, 145, 157–9, 172, 183; ideas, 160–1; and Keynes, 174; and Lacan, 626; reads Spengler, 173; Rorty on, 669–70; and therapeutic nihilism, 12; Turing meets, 363; and Vienna Circle, 37; Philosophical Investigations, 492–6; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 145, 157, 159–60, 164, 192, 236, 492
Wittgenstein, Margarete, 158
Wolfe, Tom, 598–9, 601, 620; The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, 584
Wolff, Christian, 74
Wollheim, Gert, 350
Woltmann, Ludwig, 240
Woodstock music festival (1969), 537
Woolf, Leonard, 174, 293
Woolf, Virginia, 189, 201, 210, 276, 293, 759; Jacob’s Room, 186, 193, 195, 201–2, 276; A Room of One’s Own, 276–7
Woolley, Sir Leonard, 249–50, 340
World Bank, 389
World Health Organization (WHO), 498–9
Woytinsky, W. S., 389–90
Wright, Richard, 458–9
Wright, Robert, 758–60; The Moral Animal, 751
Wright, Wilbur and Orville, 83–5
Wundt, Wilhelm, 139, 149
Yagoda, Genrikh, 321
Yale University, 75
Yan (or Yen) Fu, 178
Yao Wenyuan, 538–9
Yeats, William Butler, 23, 156, 194–7; omits Owen from Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 156
Yerkes, Robert, 149–50, 206
Yezhov, N. I., 324
Yom Kippur War (1973), 589
Young, Andrew, 525
Young, Michaeclass="underline" The Rise of the Meritocracy, 448–9, 698
Yung Wing, 70
Zabel, William, 446
Zadkine, Ossip, 355
Zehme, Albertine, 58–9
Zemlinsky, Alexander von, 56
Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, 352
Zervos, Christian, 336
Zhdanov, Andrei, 320, 412, 474
Zhou Enlai, 540
Zhoukoud, Adolf, 311, 313
Ziegler, Adolf, 312
Zimbabwe, 556–7
Zimbalist, Efrem, 356
Znaniecki, Florian, 282
Zola, Emile, 24, 43, 209, 245, 327
Zuckmayer, Carl, 231
Zukor, Adolph, 87
Zurich, 161, 229
Zweig, George, 569
Zweig, Stefan, 28, 44, 228, 307, 353
INDEX OF IDEAS AND SUBJECTS
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abstract art, 63–5
abstract expressionism, 510–11, 515