Society at the Turn of the 20 th Century Circa
Literacy & Newspapers
Auguste Comte The Positive Philosophy Stages: – Theological – Metaphysical – Positive Positivism Father of Sociology
Charles Darwin The Origin of Species The Descent of Man “Natural Selection”
“Social Darwinism” Herbert Spencer Thomas Henry Huxley
Louis Pasteur “Pasteurization” Robert Koch Germ Research
Ernst Mach & William Rotegen
Marie Curie & Ernest Rutherford
Max Plank & Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud Father of Psychoanalysis The Interpretation of Dreams Id, Ego, Superego
Carl Jung & Ivan Pavlov Archetypal Ideas and Behaviorism
Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy Thus Spake Zarathustra Beyond Good and Evil Genealogy of Morals
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau - Essay on the Inequality of Human Races Houston Stewart Chamberlin - Foundations of the Nineteenth Century Racism Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitic Leaders: – Karl Lueger – Adolf Stoecker – Dreyfus’s Persecutor's Zionism – Theodore Herzl
The Subjection of Women John Stuart Mill Harriet Taylor Millicent Fawcett National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies Emmaline Pankhurst Women’s Social and Political Union Suffragettes
Elizabeth Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention National American Woman Suffrage Association
Literature Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist – Great Expectations Gustave Flaumbert – Madame Bovary Emile Zola George Bernard Shaw – Arms and the Man – Man and Superman – Androcles and the Lion Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace Kate Chopin – The Awakening Mark Twain – The Gilded Age – With Charles Dudley Warner – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Camille Pissaro Pierre-Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet – Impression, Sunrise Art - Impressionism – Modern life – Leisure Edouard Manet – The Luncheon on the Grass
Post-Impressionism – Focus on form and structure Georges Seurat – Neo-Impressionism – A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Vincent Van Gogh – Emotional Struggle – Starry Night Paul Gauguin – Coloring – Synthesist Paul Cézanne – Impressionism to Cubism
The Radio Nikola Tesla & Guglielmo Marconi
The Cinema The Great Train Robbery New York City to Hollywood “Silent Films” to “Talking Films” The Jazz Singer
Thomas Edison Role in the invention of: – Phonograph – Dictaphone – Mimeograph – Moving Picture – Light Bulb
Second Industrial Revolution Henry Bessemer Steel Chemical Industry Solvay process Dyestuffs & Plastics Electrical Power Stations
Internal Combustion Engine Gottlieb Damlier Automobile Henry Ford Moving Assembly Line
Quiz 4 Pick two inventions, philosophies, or individuals from this section. Explain in two short essays why you believe they were the most important inventions, philosophies, or individuals of the turn of the century.