Closing of the American Mind (64 page)

capitalism and,
208

Enlightenment and,
163
–64,
167

family relationships viewed by,
114
–15

indiscriminate freedom and,
28

modern economics developed from,
361
–62,
364

property defined by,
161

rationalism of,
73

rights viewed by,
165
,
190

Rousseau vs.,
167
–70,
172
,
190
,
292
,
299

rulership viewed by,
110

self-preservation and,
175
–76,
178

self viewed by,
173
,
177

social science and,
358
,
363
–64,
366

state of nature viewed by,
162
–63,
171
,
232

Lonely Crowd, The
(Riesman),
125
,
144

Lukacs, Georg,
222

McCarthy, Mary,
152

McCarthyism,
322
,
324

Machiavelli, Niccolò:

classical scholarship and,
34
–35,
285
–86,
304

Enlightenment realism and,
259
,
291

Italian mind and,
52

Marlowe on,
292

political effectiveness advocated by,
263
,
293

soul viewed by,
173
–74

travel and,
63

war and peace viewed by,
364

“Mack the Knife,” 151

Madame Bovary
(Flaubert),
134
–35,
205

Maimonides, Moses,
271

Mann, Thomas:

American influence of,
230
–32

man's desires viewed by,
137
,
234

Plato viewed by,
236
–37

Mansfield, Harvey,
287

Mao Zedong,
221
,
331

Marcuse, Herbert:

American popularity of,
147

Marx and Freud combined by,
78
,
223

scholarship of,
226
,
322

Maritain, Jacques,
292

Marlborough, John Churchill,
1
st Duke of,
256

Marlowe, Christopher,
292

Marsilius of Padua,
283

Marx, Groucho,
70

Marx, Karl:

atheism of,
195
–96

dialectic of,
229

Hegel and,
222
,
222
n

historical necessity of,
208
–9,
313

Nietzsche vs.,
143

university view of,
148
,
367

Masters, William,
99

May, Elaine,
125

Mead, Margaret,
33
,
367

Mencken, H. L.,
55

Merchant of Venice, The
(Shakespeare),
69

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,
222
n
224

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig,
152
n

Mill, John Stuart,
29
,
116
,
161

Molière,
328

Montesquieu, Baron de:

French consciousness and,
160
n

morality viewed by,
327
–28

selfishness viewed by,
178

More, Sir Thomas,
325

Moses,
199
,
211

Mussolini, Benito,
221
,
315

Napoleon I, Emperor of France,
79
,
211
,
281

National Council of the Churches of Christ,
65

Newton, Sir Isaac,
264
,
292
,
295
,
305
,
345
,
371

New York Times, The
,
350

New York Times Magazine, The
,
318

Nichols, Mike,
125

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
377

ancient gentlemen viewed by,
279

anthropology influenced by,
362

artists viewed by,
204
–7

atheism of,
195
–96

bourgeois viewed by,
157

classical scholarship and,
304
,
305
,
307
,
309
,
375

cultural decay and,
51

cultural relativism of,
202
–4

egalitarianism attacked by,
201

extremism and,
214

fascism and,
149

id concept of,
200

modern study of,
345

music viewed by,
71
,
72
,
73

newspapers and,
59

passions viewed by,
156

popularization of,
148
,
151
–52,
225
–26,
379

radical historicism of,
153
–54,
219

religiosity of,
197
–99

sex viewed by,
231
,
232

social sciences influenced by,
148

Socratic rationalism attacked by,
267
–68,
307
–8,
310

value revolution of,
143
,
146
,
153
–54,
228
–29

war viewed by,
220
–21

Weber on,
194
–95

Nietzsche
(Heidegger),
207

Night at the Opera, A
,
70

Nixon, Richard M.,
67
,
329
,
331

Odysseus,
40

One Dimensional Man
(Marcuse),
78
,
226

Ono, Yoko,
77

Parsons, Talcott,
151

Partisan Review
,
224

Pascal, Blaise:

egalitarian denigration of,
251

French mind and,
52
,
352

revelation chosen by,
37
,
227
–28

social science and,
215

Pericles,
188

Phaedrus
(Plato),
133
,
236
–37

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni,
180

Plato,
380

ambition viewed by,
329
,
330

cave image of,
38
,
264
–65

city vs. philosophy in,
274

democratic youth viewed by,
87
–88,
329

equality and,
161

eroticism viewed by,
61
,
236
–38,
305

gods viewed by,
197

Heidegger and,
310

modern contempt for,
311
,
363

music viewed by,
70
–72,
73

Nietzsche vs.,
207
,
310

political philosophy of,
218
,
262
–63,
286

psychological interpretation of,
375

real vs. ideal in,
67
,
130
,
381

Rousseau vs.,
169
,
305

sexual equality and,
97
,
100
,
102
–3

Socrates viewed by,
265
,
268
–69,
281
–82

student discussions and,
83
,
332
–33

Plutarch,
66
,
256
,
306

Poetics
(Aristotle),
72
–73,
280
–81

Politics
(Aristotle),
72
–73,
112
,
366

Pound, Ezra,
149

Preface to Democratic Theory, A
(Dahl),
32

pre-Socratics,
297
,
309
,
310

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen),
375

Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
(Rousseau),
196
–97

Proust, Marcel,
367

Racine, Jean,
352

Rand, Ayn,
62

Ravel, Maurice,
73

Rawls, John,
30
,
229

Reagan, Ronald,
76
,
120
,
141
,
142

Red and the Black, The
(Stendhal),
64

Reflections on Violence
(Sorel),
221

Reich, Charles,
322

Republic
(Plato),
381

cave image of,
38
,
264

democratic youth described in,
61
,
87
–88,
275
,
332
–33

heroism in,
66

poetry discussed in,
207
,
267

music discussed in,
70
–71

psychological teaching of,
375

sexual equality in,
97
,
100
,
102
–3

unity of power and wisdom described in,
266
,
284

Riesman, David,
144
,
146
,
152
,
155

Robespierre, Maximilien de,
190
,
196
,
328

Rogers, Will,
225

Roman Catholic Church,
264

Romantic dilemma,
40
–41

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
30

Roosevelt, Theodore,
229

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
179

bourgeois viewed by,
185

civil religion advocated by,
196
–97

classical knowledge of,
304
–5

compassion and,
330

Enlightenment criticism of,
167
–70,
181
–83,
258
,
267
,
292
,
298
–300

French dualism and,
52

German influence of,
305

humanities and,
358
–59

individual viewed by,
115
–16,
117

modern social sciences developed from,
361
–62,
366

music and,
73

property viewed by,
161

sex and,
66
,
100
,
107
–8,
233

societal disintegration and,
118

statecraft vs. culture viewed by,
189
–92

state of nature viewed by,
162
–63,
167
–70,
171
,
172
,
176
–77,
178

Symposium
viewed by,
133

Sakharov, Andrei,
297
,
358
n

Salinger, J. D.,
63

Sartre, Jean-Paul:

bourgeois and,
159
,
224

language of,
211

Nietzschean influence on,
219
,
222
n

Schiller, Friedrich von,
41
,
306
,
308

Schmitt, Karl,
259

Scholastic Aptitude Test,
50

Schopenhauer, Arthur,
368

Science as a Vocation
(Weber),
194

Shakespeare, William:

egalitarianism and,
65

English mind and,
52
,
256

modern education and,
374
,
380

music viewed by,
69

natural scientists and,
350

rulership viewed by,
110
–11,
329

sex roles in,
126

Shorey, Paul,
375

Sierra Club,
172

Skinner, B. F,
193

Smith, Adam,
73
,
208
,
259
,
361

Snow, C. P.,
182
,
350

Social Contract, The
(Rousseau),
189
–90

Socrates:

ambition viewed by,
329

Aristophanes' view of,
269
–70,
273
,
274
–75

cave image and,
264
–65

charges against,
275
–76

Cicero vs. Nietzsche on,
154

death of,
71
,
173
,
268
,
285

defense by,
265
–66,
267
,
276
–77

dialectic of,
38
,
229

eroticism viewed by,
132
–33

goal sought by,
163

heroism and,
66

modern contempt for,
311
,
363

modern philosophy vs.,
264
–68

music viewed by,
72

Nietzsche's indictment of,
207
–8,
307
–8

philosopher-kings or,
266

philosophic task defined by,
277

Plato's presentation of,
265
,
268
–69,
281
–82

poetry viewed by,
280
–81

politics of,
278
,
314
,
358
n

power viewed by,
285

Rousseau and,
298

self-knowledge and,
43
,
143
,
174
,
179
,
279
–80

sexual equality views of,
102
–3

society viewed by,
292
–93,
381