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Post War Culture

Explore the profound impacts of the Post-World War I era on European and American culture, reflecting a search for truth, meaning, and self-actualization. Delve into influential figures like Nietzsche and Jung, while uncovering the complexities of the German culture amid economic turmoil and artistic innovation.

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Post War Culture

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  1. Post War Culture Age of Anxiety and The Lost Generation

  2. Post War Culture • The Post World War I era is characterized by a massive shift in European and American culture. • The new culture was influenced by the Great War, which had left Europe in shambles, emotionally and physically. • Millions of men suffered physical and emotional trauma.

  3. The Search • Suddenly, artists and academics began questioning everything they previously held to be true. • They began to search for truth and meaning. • They began to question whether there even is meaning in life at all, and began to explore concepts like duality, power, evil, morality, the unconscious, and questioned the existence of G-d as a whole.

  4. Frederick Nietzsche • Nietzsche, who was a German philosopher who lived from 1844-1900, was incredibly influential on the thought of the Post War era. • His work questions all Judeo-Christian beliefs and morality, most earlier philosophy, and all commonly held beliefs. • He also is one of many who believed in a sort of self-actualization, a new belief structure. Human, All Too Human, BBC

  5. Carl Jung 1875-1961 • Jung was a student of Freud, who took all of his work, and adapted it. He rejected many of Freud’s ideas and created a new system of his own. • Like Freud he thinks we are governed by our subconscious or unconscious mind, but his version of the unconscious is more spiritual and mystical, and not really governed by basic sexuality and fear. • One of his most important ideas is that of the collective unconscious.

  6. The Collective Unconsciousness • Jung thought that there were many layers of the consciousness. • He also pioneered the basic personality types that would turn into the commonly used Myers-Briggs personality test. • Introvert, extrovert • Sensing, feeling, thinking, intuiting • http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/collective_unconscious.html

  7. German Culture • While the Weimar government was desperately trying to pay it’s debts and rebuild the country, German culture flourished. • Dadaism, a nihilistic new form of art arose. • German film exploded with film makers like Fritz Lang and Ernst Lubitsch • German physics, in Bohr, Heisenberg and Einstein

  8. Dadism- Shusaku Arakawa

  9. Francis Picabia Tetes-Paysage Match woman

  10. Marcel Duchamp Mile of String. 1942 Fountain, 1917 Marcel Duchamp - Cover design for "Minotaure" - (1934)

  11. German Inflation • While the culture is flourishing, the economy is imploding. • In this image a woman is actually burning money because it burns longer than the firewood it would buy. http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/Infl3.png

  12. German Inflation • In this picture the children are demonstrating the exchange rate- one dollar for trillions of marks- Reich marks, which were replaced by Renten marks after the fall of the Weimar govt. http://mises.org/story/2347

  13. German boys make a kite with worthless money in 1922. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/europe/04germany.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.24hourtrading.co.uk/blog/bnp-gains-echo-nazi-history-1592/

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