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Western Civilization
Chapter 24
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02/25/2007

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Realism
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the dominant movement in art and literature in the mid 1800s, opposed the romantic veneration of the inner life and romantic sentimentality
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Gustave Courbet
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exemplified realism in painting, sought to practice what he called a "living art"
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Gustave Flaubert
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a realist artist = Madame Bovary
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Honore de Balzac
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described how social and economic forces affected people's behavior
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Eugene Sue
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gave harrowing accounts of slum life and crime in his serialized novel, Les Mysteres de Paris
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George Sand
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a woman writing under a male pen name, portrayed the married woman as a victim in "Indiana"
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Emile de Vogue
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a 19th century French writer
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Ivan Turgenev
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a Russian writer = a novelist, dramatist, and short story writer
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Leo Tolstoy
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vividly described the manners and outlook of the Russian nobility and the tragedies that attended Napoleon's invasion of Europe.
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Anton Chekhov
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a physician who turned to literature
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Fyodor Dostoevski
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wrote "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "The Possessed", and "The Brothers Karamazov
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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the wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester = an English writer
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naturalism
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when writers tried to demonstrate a casual relationship between human character and the social environment
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Emile Zola
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had immense confidence in the scientific method and was convinced that it applied to literature
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Henrik Isben
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the leading realist playwright = Norwegian
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Positivists
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viewd science as the higher achievement of the mind and sought to apply a strict empirical approach to the study of society
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Auguste Comte
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the father of positivism
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John Dalton
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an English chemist, formualted the modern atomic theory
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Michael Faraday
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discovered the principal of electromagnetic induction
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Herman von Helmholtz
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a German physicist = formulated the law of conservation of energy
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Heinrich Hertz
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discovered electromagnetic waves
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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constructed a periodic table for the elements
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Louis Pasteur
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initiated a revolution in medicine by proving that diseases were caused by microbes, and he devised vaccines to prevent them
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Charles Darwin
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evolution theory
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Erasmus Darwin
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the grandfather of Charles Darwin = published Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life
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Sir Charles Lyell
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published his three-volume Principles of Geology
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Social Darwinists
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those who transferred Darwin's scientific theories to social and economic issues
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Andrew Carnegie
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wrote The Gospel of Wealth = an American industrialist
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Karl Pearson
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a British professor of mathematics
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Albert J. Beveridge
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was a U.S. senator
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Friedrich von Bernhardi
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a Prussian general
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Paul Rohrbach
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a German colonial official in Southwest Africa
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David Friedrich Strauss
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a German theologian, examined the Gospels in a critical spirit
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Ludwig Feuerbach
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a German philosopher and theologian
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Soren Kierkegaard
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argued that true Christians commit themselves to beliefs that are seemingly unintelligible
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Alfred Firmin Loiry
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a scholarly priest = questioned the historicity of the Virgin Birth and the bodily resurrection of Jesus
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Pope Pius X
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strongly condemned modernism
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Marxism
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the seizure of power by the working class and the destruction of capitalism
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Karl Marx
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born of German-Jewish parents = believed that human history was governed by scientific law
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Friedrich Engels
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son of a prosperous textile manufacturer
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Communist Manifesto
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published by Marx and Engels
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Robert Tucker
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believed Marxism had the features of a religious myth
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Anarchism
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denounced the exploitation of workers and the coercive authority of govt. and envisioned a stateless society
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Pierre Joseph Proudhon
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anarchists drew inspiration from him
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Mikhail Bakunin
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contributed to shaping the Russian anarchist tradition
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John Stuart Mill
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a British philosopher and statesman
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Thomas Hill Green
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an Oxford University professor = important to shaping a new liberal position in the 19th century
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D.G. Ritchie
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taught philosophy at Oxford and Saint Andrews
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J.A. Hobson
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a social theorist
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L.T. Hobhouse
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an academic who wrote for the Manchester Guardian
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Herbert Spencer
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rejected the idea "that evils of all inds should be dealt with by the state."
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Feminism
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insisted that principles of liberty and equality expressed by the philosophes and everything else should be applied to women
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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a feminist
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Harriet Matineau
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an English novelist and economist
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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spoke in public - something women rarely did
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Condorcet
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argued for female emancipation
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Jules and Edmond Goncourt
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two prominent French writers
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Shelly, Bentham, and William Thompson
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favored female suffrage
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