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English citations of zeitgeister

Noun: "plural of zeitgeist"

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  • 1940: Project Muse, Journal of the History of Ideas, p292
    Ages, Zeitgeister, national, and racial minds seem to me to have outlived their usefulness, if they ever had any…
  • 1959: George Boas, Some Assumptions of Aristotle, p11
    I am far from maintaining that there exist group-minds, Zeitgeister, collective unconsciousness, or self-evident truths.
  • 1970: Helen A. Weinberg, The New Novel in America: the Kafkan mode in contemporary fiction, p64
    However, that Kierkegaard and Buber were presences in the Zeitgeister inhabited by Kafka and Bellow as well as in the particular lives of Kafka and Bellow is significant information to the student of twentieth-century literature…
  • 1974: Dennis MacCort, Perspective on Music in German Fiction: The Music-fiction of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, p127
    In its largest dimension the dual theme of the novella is an historical antithesis: two ages, two Zeitgeister stand tensely opposed to each other in the painful period of transition.
  • 1974: Martim de Albuquerque, Notes and Queries, p242
    Their endings, the ultimate damnation or salvation of the hero, provide a fairly reliable index of the alternating optimistic and pessimistic zeitgeister
  • 1977: Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Stormy Weather: Crosslights on the Nineteen Thirties: An Informal Social History of the United States 1929–1941, p369
    The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision.
  • 1987: Manfred S. Frings, Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism, p5
    This experience has been shared by the twenty or so great thinkers, at one time or another, independently of the different eras and zeitgeister they lived in.
  • 1996: Leslie J. Francis & Susan H. Jones, Psychological Perspectives on Christian Ministry: A Reader, p58
    There is also a sense in which particular Zeitgeister may have an impact upon facets of the results that are gleaned from an empirical study.
  • 1998: Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Scottish Geographical Magazine, p65
    Professor Howe’s chosen theme of a set of geomedical zeitgeister might have emerged more clearly if he had chosen to treat his earlier historical sections as sub-periods, with a major synthesis to contrast them with his eighteenth and nineteenth century and modern periods.