Zeitgeist – How Ideas Travel : : Politics, Culture and the Public in the Age of Revolution / / Maike Oergel.
This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist, the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence, in the late 18th century. It traces zeitgeist’s descent from genius saeculi and investigates its association with public spirit and public opinion before surveying its prominenc...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VII, 342 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Johann Gottfried Herder – the “Inventor of Zeitgeist”?
- 2. The Making of Zeitgeist – Culture and Public Spirit between Enfranchisement and Control
- 3. The Public and Zeitgeist – Public Spirit and Public Opinion 1790–1800
- 4. Zeitgeist in Germany – Public Opinion, History, and the People in Franz Josias von Hendrich, Ernst Brandes, and Ernst Moritz Arndt
- 5. Zeitgeist in Britain – The Spirit of the Age and Social Reform in Julius Hare, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, and J. S. Mill
- 6. How Ideas Travel (in Theory): The Zeitgeist Dynamic
- 7. How an Idea Travels (in Practice) – A Case Study
- Works Cited
- Index