The Mind of The Age of Anxiety

 

The Assignment:

In this activity, you will be using the internet to construct a better understanding of the Age of Anxiety.  You will need to create the mind of a European individual living in the post world war one era.  As you construct your mind, you will need to identify and connect information regarding the people, the style, the art, the beliefs, and the thoughts of the age of anxiety.  This information will be used to analyze the period.   

 

The Product:

You will be working with a partner to complete this assignment.  This assignment should address all the criteria listed above.  It should be comprehensive construction of the age of anxiety.  It should be neat (i.e. typed or nicely written).  Some illustrations should be utilized.  This assignment is worth 20 Points. 

 

The Sources:

In order to complete this assignment, you must utilize the links below. In addition, you may consult your textbook for more information. 

 

Overview:

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture8.html

http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/anxiety.html

http://www.britannia.com/history/euro/3/1_1.html

 

Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

http://www.pitt.edu/~wbcurry/nietzsche.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bergson.htm

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/sorel.htm

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/sorel.htm

http://www.geocities.com/sartresite/

 

Religion

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kier.htm

http://www.island-of-freedom.com/BARTH.HTM

http://www.lemoyne.edu/gms/

 

Physics

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/ENGLISH/SCIENCES/CURIE/marie.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Planck.html

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1918/planck-bio.html

http://www.westegg.com/einstein/

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html

 

Psychology

http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/freud.html

http://users.rcn.com/brill/freudarc.html

http://www.freudfile.org/

 

Literature

http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/streamco.html

http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/

http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n2p-2_Stimely.html

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/eliot.htm

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/orwell.htm

 

Architecture

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0819882.html

http://www.greatgridlock.net/Viipuri/archi.html

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Walter_Gropius.html

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/gropius.html

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe.html

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/mies.html

 

ART

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/post-impressionism.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/cubism.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/dada.html