Culture, science and philosophy in Europe 1900s

modernism

• The rejection of all that came before

• made human forms appear to float without a stable background and no specific faces

impressionism

• The rejection of all that came before

• made human forms appear to float without a stable background and no specific faces

this paintor used geometrical forms and represented women's faces as African masks

• Monet

• Picasso

• Kaethe Kollwitz

• Freud

this paintor emphasized the suffering of the poor.

• Monet

• Picasso

• Kaethe Kollwitz

• Freud

this author propossed that women were not frigid and passionless and had a libido to

• Monet

• Picasso

• Kaethe Kollwitz

• Freud

• Nietzsche

this scientist discovered more radioactive elements polonium and radium

• Curie

• Einstein

• Kaethe Kollwitz

• Freud

• Nietzsche

this scientist discovered radiation

• Curie

• Einstein

• Becquerel

• Freud

• Nietzsche

this author introduced the theory of relativity

• Curie

• Einstein

• Becquerel

• Freud

• Nietzsche

To this author religious tenets were in decline and claimed that ''god was dead, we have killed him''

• Curie

• Einstein

• Becquerel

• Freud

• Nietzsche

positivism in social sciences

• there are too many facts to compute and humans are too complex and constantly changing and at times irrational in economic choices

• the belief that you can discover social facts and basic social laws to guide public policy