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), 533
medicine see AIDS; antibiotics; antidepressants; autism; beta-blockers; blood transfusion; cancer research; cloning; contraception; cosmetic surgery; genetics; glands; hormones; immunosuppressants; leukaemia; Medicare; progesterone; psychoanalysis; psychology; restriction enzymes; Salvarsen; syphilis; therapy-religions; tranquillisers; transplants (organ); tuberculosis; venereal diseases; viruses; vitamins
‘medium is the message, the’, 546–7
mental abilities see Intelligence Quotient
mental illness, 491–2, 501, 626–8
Mentalités (historical), 558, 560
meritocracy, 448–9, 698–9
messenger substances see hormones
metanarratives see postmodernism
metaphysics, 36–7, 76–7
‘Middle America’, 520–2
middlebrow: and media, 210–12, 219–20
mind: nature and function of, 492–3, 500–1
modernism: condemned by Catholic Church, 68–9; defined, 52–3; impact of, 71–2; and science, 5
molecular biology, 683–98
monetarism, 650
moon landings, 566–8
morphomatics, 749
mother tongue, 690
motivational research, 445–6
motor cars: ownership, 214
Movement poets and novelists, 464–5
music: chance in, 624; evolution of, 757; indeterminacy in, 513; and modernism, 52–9; in Vienna, 37; see also electronic music; pop music; serial music
myth, 461–2
narcissism, 599–601, 620
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 112
National Intellegence Tests (USA) see Intelligence Quotient
National Socialism (Nazism): beginnings, 173; Hitler leads, 240; and Olympic Games (1936), 329; persecution and flight of intellectuals and scientists, 181, 302–7, 309, 350–1; persecution of Jews, 67, 243, 302, 309, 327, 352–7, 394, 435, 606; philosophical background, 234, 309; race theories, 294–7, 310–12, 315; religious opposition to, 314–15; repression of art and artists, 211–13, 300–2; rise of, 273, 294–6, 300, 304; and Stalinism, 436; and Western disarmament, 176
nationalism, 71
Nazism see National Socialism negation, 503
Négritude, 460
Neo-Confucian synthesis, 71
neptunium, 397
neutron stars, 572–3
neutrons, 262, 393, 509; see also particle physics
New Class, 443
New Deal (USA), 341–2, 646
New Growth Theory, 649
New Journalism, 598–9
New Learning (New Culture)
Movement, 178–9
New Left, 537, 595
New Policies (China), 70
‘Niagara movement’, 111
nihilism see therapeutic nihilism
Noema, 32
Noesis, 32
Nomenklatura (Soviet Russia), 318
noncommunicative geometry, 745
Novembergruppe, 222, 231
nuclear energy, 365, 394, 396; see also
atomic bomb
nucleic acid: and amplification, 617
nucleosynthesis, 508
nucleus (atomic), 93; see also particle physics