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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Geist_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Geist (disambiguation)">Geist (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p> <i><b>Geist</b></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈɡaɪst]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/e\/ed\/De-Geist.ogg\/De-Geist.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"De-Geist.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ed/De-Geist.ogg/De-Geist.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:De-Geist.ogg" title="File:De-Geist.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> noun with a significant degree of importance in <a href="/wiki/German_philosophy" title="German philosophy">German philosophy</a>. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghost</a> (as in the supernatural entity), <a href="/wiki/Spirit_(vital_essence)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spirit (vital essence)">spirit</a> (as in the Holy Spirit), and <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> or <a href="/wiki/Intellect" title="Intellect">intellect</a>. Some English translators resort to using "spirit/mind" or "spirit (mind)" to help convey the meaning of the term.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Geist</i> is also a central concept in <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a>'s 1807 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Phenomenology_of_Spirit" title="The Phenomenology of Spirit">The Phenomenology of Spirit</a></i> (<i>Phänomenologie des Geistes</i>). Notable compounds, all associated with Hegel's view of <a href="/wiki/World_history_(field)" title="World history (field)">world history</a> of the late 18th century, include <i><b>Weltgeist</b></i> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">German:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈvɛltˌɡaɪ̯st]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-2" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/9\/94\/De-Weltgeist.ogg\/De-Weltgeist.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"De-Weltgeist.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/94/De-Weltgeist.ogg/De-Weltgeist.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:De-Weltgeist.ogg" title="File:De-Weltgeist.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>, "world-spirit"), <i><b>Volksgeist</b></i> "national spirit" and <i><b>Zeitgeist</b></i> "spirit of the age". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology_and_translation">Etymology and translation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geist&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology and translation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Spirit_(animating_force)" title="Spirit (animating force)">Spirit (animating force)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pneuma" title="Pneuma">Pneuma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Psyche_(psychology)" title="Psyche (psychology)">Psyche (psychology)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a></div> <p>German <i>Geist</i> (masculine gender: <i>der Geist</i>) continues <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> <i>geist</i>, attested as the translation of Latin <i>spiritus</i>. It is the direct cognate of English <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghost" class="extiw" title="wikt:ghost">ghost</a></i>, from a <a href="/wiki/West_Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="West Germanic">West Germanic</a> <i>gaistaz</i>. Its derivation from a <a href="/wiki/PIE_root" class="mw-redirect" title="PIE root">PIE root</a> <i>g̑heis-</i> "to be agitated, frightened" suggests that the Germanic word originally referred to frightening (c.f. English <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghastly" class="extiw" title="wikt:ghastly">ghastly</a>) apparitions or <a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">ghosts</a>, and may also have carried the connotation of "ecstatic agitation, <i><a href="/wiki/Odhr" class="mw-redirect" title="Odhr">furor</a></i>" related to the cult of <a href="/wiki/Germanic_Mercury" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic Mercury">Germanic Mercury</a>. As the translation of biblical Latin <i>spiritus</i> (Greek πνεῦμα) "<a href="/wiki/Pneuma" title="Pneuma">spirit, breath</a>" the Germanic word acquires a Christian meaning from an early time, notably in reference to the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a> (Old English <i>sē hālga gāst</i> "the Holy Ghost", OHG <i>ther heilago geist</i>, Modern German <i>der Heilige Geist</i>). Poltergeist (Noisy/Disruptive Geist) is a common interchangeable term. The English word is in competition with Latinate <i>spirit</i> from the Middle English period, but its broader meaning is preserved well into the early modern period.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The German noun much like English <i>spirit</i> could refer to spooks or ghostly apparitions of the dead, to the religious concept, as in the Holy Spirit, as well as to the "spirit of wine", i.e., <a href="/wiki/Ethanol" title="Ethanol">ethanol</a>. However, its special meaning of "<a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Intellect" title="Intellect">intellect</a>" never shared by English <i>ghost</i> is acquired only in the 18th century, under the influence of French <i>esprit</i>. In this sense it became extremely productive in the German language of the 18th century in general as well as in 18th-century German philosophy. <i>Geist</i> could now refer to the quality of intellectual brilliance, to wit, innovation, erudition, etc. It is also in this time that the adjectival distinction of <i>geistlich</i> "spiritual, pertaining to religion" vs. <i>geistig</i> "intellectual, pertaining to the mind" begins to be made. Reference to spooks or ghosts is made by the adjective <i>geisterhaft</i> "ghostly, spectral".<sup id="cite_ref-Pfeifer_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pfeifer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Numerous <a href="/wiki/German_compounds" class="mw-redirect" title="German compounds">compounds</a> are formed in the 18th to 19th centuries, some of them loan translations of French expressions, such as <i>Geistesgegenwart</i> = <i>présence d'esprit</i> ("mental presence, acuity"), <i>Geistesabwesenheit</i> = <i>absence d’esprit</i> ("mental absence, distraction"), <i>geisteskrank</i> "mentally ill", <i>geistreich</i> "witty, intellectually brilliant", <i>geistlos</i> "unintelligent, unimaginative, vacuous" etc. It is from these developments that certain German compounds containing <i>-geist</i> have been loaned into English, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Zeitgeist" title="Zeitgeist">Zeitgeist</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Zeitgeist_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zeitgeist-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>German <i>Geist</i> in this particular sense of "mind, wit, erudition; intangible essence, spirit" has no precise English-language equivalent, for which reason translators sometimes retain <i>Geist</i> as a German loanword. </p><p>There is a second word for <i>ghost</i> in German: <i><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gespenst" class="extiw" title="de:Gespenst">das Gespenst</a></i> (neutral gender). <i>Der Geist</i> is used slightly more often to refer to a ghost (in the sense of flying white creature) than <i>das Gespenst</i>. The corresponding adjectives are <i>gespenstisch</i> ("ghostly", "spooky") and <i>gespensterhaft</i> ("ghost-like"). A <i>Gespenst</i> is described in German as <i>spukender Totengeist</i>, a "spooking ghost of the dead". The adjectives <i>geistig</i> and <i>geistlich</i> on the other hand, can not be used to describe something spooky, as <i>geistig</i> means "mental", and <i>geistlich</i> means either "spiritual" or refers to employees of the church. <i>Geisterhaft</i> would also mean, like <i>gespensterhaft</i>, "ghost-like". While "spook" means <i>der Spuk</i> (male gender), the adjective of this word is only used in its English form, <i>spooky</i>. The more common German adjective would be <i>gruselig</i>, deriving from <i>der Grusel</i> (<i>das ist gruselig</i>, colloquially: <i>das ist spooky</i>, meaning "that is spooky"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hegelianism">Hegelianism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geist&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hegelianism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Geist</i> is a central concept in <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a>'s philosophy. According to most interpretations, the <i>Weltgeist</i> ("world spirit") is not an actual object or a transcendent, godlike thing, but a means of philosophizing about history.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <i>Weltgeist</i> is effected in history through the <a href="/wiki/Mediation" title="Mediation">mediation</a> of various <i><a href="/wiki/Volksgeist" class="mw-redirect" title="Volksgeist">Volksgeister</a></i> ("national spirits"), the <a href="/wiki/Hero" title="Hero">great men</a> of history, such as <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a>, are the "<a href="/wiki/Concrete_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Concrete (philosophy)">concrete</a> <a href="/wiki/Universality_(philosophy)" title="Universality (philosophy)">universal</a>".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>This has led some to claim that Hegel favored the <a href="/wiki/Great_man_theory" title="Great man theory">great man theory</a>, although his <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_history" title="Philosophy of history">philosophy of history</a>, in particular concerning the role of the "<a href="/wiki/Universality_(philosophy)" title="Universality (philosophy)">universal</a> state" (<i>Universalstaat</i>, which means a universal "order" or "statute" rather than "<a href="/wiki/State_(polity)" title="State (polity)">state</a>"), and of an "End of History" is much more complex. </p><p>For Hegel, the great hero is unwittingly utilized by <i>Geist</i> or <i>absolute spirit</i>, by a "ruse of reason" as he puts it, and is irrelevant to history once his historic mission is accomplished; he is thus subjected to the <a href="/wiki/Teleology" title="Teleology">teleological</a> principle of history, a principle which allows Hegel to reread the history of philosophy as culminating in his philosophy of history. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weltgeist"><i>Weltgeist</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geist&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Weltgeist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Anima_mundi" title="Anima mundi">Anima mundi</a></div> <p><i><b>Weltgeist</b></i> ("world-spirit") is older than the 18th century, at first (16th century) in the sense of "secularism, impiety, irreligiosity" (<i>spiritus mundi</i>), in the 17th century also personalised in the sense of "man of the world", "mundane or secular person". Also from the 17th century, <i>Weltgeist</i> acquired a philosophical or spiritual sense of "world-spirit" or "world-soul" (<i>anima mundi, spiritus universi</i>) in the sense of <a href="/wiki/Panentheism" title="Panentheism">Panentheism</a>, a spiritual essence permeating all of nature, or the active principle animating the universe, including the physical sense, such as the attraction between <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_force" class="mw-redirect" title="Magnetic force">magnet and iron</a> or between <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">Moon and tide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This idea of <i>Weltgeist</i> in the sense of <i>anima mundi</i> became very influential in 18th-century German philosophy. In philosophical contexts, <i>der Geist</i> on its own could refer to this concept, as in <a href="/wiki/Christian_Thomasius" title="Christian Thomasius">Christian Thomasius</a>, <i>Versuch vom Wesen des Geistes</i> (1709).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Belief in a <i>Weltgeist</i> as animating principle immanent to the universe became dominant in German thought due to the influence of <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>, in the later part of the 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Already in the poetical language of <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ulrich_von_K%C3%B6nig" class="extiw" title="de:Johann Ulrich von König">Johann Ulrich von König</a> (d. 1745), the <i>Weltgeist</i> appears as the active, masculine principle opposite the feminine principle of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Weltgeist</i> in the sense of Goethe comes close to being a synonym of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> and can be attributed agency and will. <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a>, who tended to prefer the form <i>Weltengeist</i> (as it were "spirit of worlds"), pushes this to the point of composing prayers addressed to this world-spirit: </p> <dl><dd><i> O Weltengeist, Bist du so gütig, wie du mächtig bist, Enthülle mir, den du mitfühlend zwar, Und doch so grausam schufst, erkläre mir Das Loos der Fühlenden, die durch mich leiden.</i></dd> <dd>"O World-spirit, be as benevolent as you are powerful and reveal to me, whom you have created with compassion and yet cruelly, explain to me the lot of the sentient, who suffer through me"<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg/170px-Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg/255px-Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg/340px-Hegel-and-Napoleon-in-Jena-1806.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1480" data-file-height="2447" /></a><figcaption>"Hegel and Napoleon in Jena" (illustration from <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, 1895)</figcaption></figure> <p>The term was notably embraced by <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a> and his followers in the early 19th century. For the 19th century, the term as used by <a href="/wiki/The_Phenomenology_of_Spirit" title="The Phenomenology of Spirit">Hegel (1807)</a> became prevalent, less in the sense of an animating principle of nature or the universe but as the invisible force advancing <a href="/wiki/World_history_(field)" title="World history (field)">world history</a>: </p> <dl><dd>"In the course of history one relevant factor is the preservation of a <a href="/wiki/Volk" title="Volk">nation</a> [...] while the other factor is that the continued existence of a national spirit [<i>Volksgeist</i>] is interrupted because it has exhausted and spent itself, so that world history, the world spirit [<i>Weltgeist</i>], proceeds."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>Hegel's description of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> as "the world-soul on horseback" (<i>die Weltseele zu Pferde</i>) became proverbial. The phrase is a shortened paraphrase of Hegel's words in a letter written on 13 October 1806, the day before the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jena" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Jena">Battle of Jena</a>, to his friend <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Immanuel_Niethammer" title="Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer">Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>The letter was not published in Hegel's time, but the expression was attributed to Hegel anecdotally, appearing in print from 1859.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is used without attribution by <a href="/wiki/Meyer_Kayserling" title="Meyer Kayserling">Meyer Kayserling</a> in his <i>Sephardim</i> (1859:103), and is apparently not recognized as a reference to Hegel by the reviewer in <i><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6ttingische_gelehrte_Anzeigen" class="mw-redirect" title="Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen">Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen</a></i>, who notes it disapprovingly, as one of Kayserling's "bad jokes" (<i>schlechte Witze</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase became widely associated with Hegel later in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Volksgeist"><i>Volksgeist</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geist&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Volksgeist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"National spirit" redirects here. For the racehorse, see <a href="/wiki/National_Spirit_(horse)" title="National Spirit (horse)">National Spirit (horse)</a>. 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title="Agrarian conservatism in Germany">Agrarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_democracy" title="Christian democracy">Christian democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_conservatism" title="Liberal conservatism">Liberal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ordoliberalism" title="Ordoliberalism">Ordo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritter_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Ritter School">Ritter School</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monarchism_in_German-speaking_countries" title="Monarchism in German-speaking countries">Monarchism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_nationalism" title="German nationalism">Nationalist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_nationalism" title="Völkisch nationalism"><i>Völkisch</i></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neue_Rechte" title="Neue Rechte">Neue Rechte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paternalistic_conservatism" title="Paternalistic conservatism">Paternalistic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Socialism_(Germany)" title="State Socialism (Germany)">State Socialism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prussianism" title="Prussianism">Prussianism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prussian_cameralism" class="mw-redirect" title="Prussian cameralism">Cameralistic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prussian_socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Prussian socialism">Socialist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Revolution" title="Conservative Revolution">Revolutionary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Revolution#Young_conservatives" title="Conservative Revolution">Young</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Romanticism" title="German Romanticism">Romanticism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Right_Hegelians" title="Right Hegelians">Right-Hegelianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Historical_School" class="mw-redirect" title="German Historical School">Historical School</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Principles</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">Authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_values" title="Christian values">Christian values</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">Duty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism">Elitism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_nobility" title="German nobility">Aristocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meritocracy" title="Meritocracy">Meritocracy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinschaft_and_Gesellschaft" title="Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft"><i>Gemeinschaft</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Geopolitik" title="Geopolitik">Geopolitik</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanisation" title="Germanisation">Germanisation</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Heimat" title="Heimat">Heimat</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_colonial_empire" title="German colonial empire">Imperialism</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/In_Treue_fest" title="In Treue fest">In Treue fest</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Germany" title="Culture of Germany">Kultur</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medievalism" title="Medievalism">Medievalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monarchism#Germany" title="Monarchism">Monarchism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organicism#In_politics_and_sociology" title="Organicism">Organicism</a></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">Patriotism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_theology#Germany" title="Political theology">Political theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prussian_virtues" title="Prussian virtues">Prussian virtues</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Sittlichkeit" title="Sittlichkeit">Sittlichkeit</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_stratification" title="Social stratification">Social hierarchy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_market_economy" title="Social market economy">Social market economy</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Sonderweg" title="Sonderweg">Sonderweg</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subsidiarity" title="Subsidiarity">Subsidiarity</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Volk" title="Volk">Volk</a></i></span> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Volksgeist">Volksgeist</a></i></span></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">History</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany" title="2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany">2015–16 New Year's Eve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Mannheim_stabbing" title="2024 Mannheim stabbing">2024 Mannheim stabbing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_July_plot" title="20 July plot">20 July plot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Socialist_Laws" title="Anti-Socialist Laws">Anti-Socialist Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlsbad_Decrees" title="Carlsbad Decrees">Carlsbad Decrees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erkl%C3%A4rung_2018" title="Erklärung 2018"><i>Erklärung</i> 2018</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Freikorps" title="Freikorps">Freikorps</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Confederation" title="German Confederation">German Confederation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Reich" title="German Reich">German <i>Reich</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heidelberg_Manifesto" title="Heidelberg Manifesto">Heidelberg Manifesto</a></i></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Historikerstreit" title="Historikerstreit">Historikerstreit</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junker_(Prussia)" title="Junker (Prussia)">The Junkers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monarchism_in_Bavaria_after_1918" title="Monarchism in Bavaria after 1918">Monarchism in Bavaria after 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oster_conspiracy" title="Oster conspiracy">Oster conspiracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George-Kreis" title="George-Kreis">George-Kreis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weimar_culture#Berlin's_reputation_for_decadence" title="Weimar culture">Perceived Weimar decadence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leipzig_school_(sociology)" title="Leipzig school (sociology)">Leipzig school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement" title="Völkisch movement">Völkisch movement</a> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Wandervogel" title="Wandervogel">Wandervogel</a></i></span></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Intellectuals</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Benedict XVI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Freyer" title="Hans Freyer">Freyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Georg_Gadamer" title="Hans-Georg Gadamer">Gadamer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clemens_August_Graf_von_Galen" title="Clemens August Graf von Galen">von Galen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Gehlen" title="Arnold Gehlen">Gehlen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Gogarten" title="Friedrich Gogarten">Gogarten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_G%C3%B6rres" title="Joseph Görres">Görres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hamann" title="Johann Georg Hamann">Hamann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Heidegger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hielscher" title="Friedrich Hielscher">Hielscher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dietrich_von_Hildebrand" title="Dietrich von Hildebrand">von Hildebrand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Guido_H%C3%BClsmann" title="Jörg Guido Hülsmann">Hülsmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger" title="Ernst Jünger">Jünger (Ernst)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_J%C3%BCnger" title="Friedrich Georg Jünger">Jünger (Friedrich)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Kantorowicz" title="Ernst Kantorowicz">Kantorowicz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Klages" title="Ludwig Klages">Klages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Kommerell" title="Max Kommerell">Kommerell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhart_Koselleck" title="Reinhart Koselleck">Koselleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Lilienfeld" title="Paul von Lilienfeld">von Lilienfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz" title="Konrad Lorenz">Lorenz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_L%C3%B6with" title="Karl Löwith">Löwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_L%C3%BCbbe" title="Hermann Lübbe">Lübbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann" title="Thomas Mann">Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Moeller_van_den_Bruck" title="Arthur Moeller van den Bruck">Moeller van den Bruck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_M%C3%BCller" title="Adam Müller">Müller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Nolte" title="Ernst Nolte">Nolte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novalis" title="Novalis">Novalis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josef_Pieper" title="Josef Pieper">Pieper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmuth_Plessner" title="Helmuth Plessner">Plessner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke" title="Leopold von Ranke">von Ranke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Reck-Malleczewen" title="Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen">Reck-Malleczewen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Ritter" title="Gerhard Ritter">Ritter (Gerhard)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Ritter" title="Joachim Ritter">Ritter (Joachim)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6pke" title="Wilhelm Röpke">Röpke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_R%C3%BCstow" title="Alexander Rüstow">Rüstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_von_Salomon" title="Ernst von Salomon">von Salomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Scheler" title="Max Scheler">Scheler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Schelsky" title="Helmut Schelsky">Schelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Schlegel" title="Friedrich Schlegel">Schlegel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Schmitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolf_Peter_Sieferle" title="Rolf Peter Sieferle">Sieferle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk" title="Peter Sloterdijk">Sloterdijk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werner_Sombart" title="Werner Sombart">Sombart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Spaemann" title="Robert Spaemann">Spaemann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Spengler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Steinbuch" title="Karl Steinbuch">Steinbuch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_T%C3%B6nnies" title="Ferdinand Tönnies">Tönnies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_von_Treitschke" title="Heinrich von Treitschke">von Treitschke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Voegelin" title="Eric Voegelin">Voegelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Weber" title="Alfred Weber">Weber</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Literature</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Addresses_to_the_German_Nation" title="Addresses to the German Nation">Addresses to the German Nation</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1806)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Elements_of_the_Philosophy_of_Right" title="Elements of the Philosophy of Right">Elements of the Philosophy of Right</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1820)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_National_System_of_Political_Economy" class="mw-redirect" title="The National System of Political Economy">The National System</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1837)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Degeneration_(Nordau)" title="Degeneration (Nordau)">Degeneration</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1892)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ressentiment_(book)" title="Ressentiment (book)">Ressentiment</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1912)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reflections_of_a_Nonpolitical_Man" title="Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man">Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1918)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West" title="The Decline of the West">The Decline of the West</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1918, 1922)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ideology_and_Utopia" title="Ideology and Utopia">Ideology and Utopia</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1929)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Man_and_Technics" title="Man and Technics">Man and Technics</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1931)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Concept_of_the_Political" title="The Concept of the Political">The Concept of the Political</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1932)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Marble_Cliffs" title="On the Marble Cliffs">On the Marble Cliffs</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1939)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Diary_of_a_Man_in_Despair" title="Diary of a Man in Despair">Diary of a Man in Despair</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1947)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Questionnaire_(Salomon_novel)" title="The Questionnaire (Salomon novel)">The Questionnaire</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fascism_in_Its_Epoch" title="Fascism in Its Epoch">Fascism in Its Epoch</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1963)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Envy:_A_Theory_of_Social_Behavior" title="Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior">Envy</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1966)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moral_und_Hypermoral" title="Moral und Hypermoral">Moral und Hypermoral</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Germany_Abolishes_Itself" title="Germany Abolishes Itself">Germany Abolishes Itself</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2010)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Finis_Germania" title="Finis Germania">Finis Germania</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2017)</span></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Commentators</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Anrich" title="Ernst Anrich">Anrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stefan_Aust" title="Stefan Aust">Aust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henryk_M._Broder" title="Henryk M. Broder">Broder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Deschner" title="Günther Deschner">Deschner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eva_Herman" title="Eva Herman">Herman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrud_H%C3%B6hler" title="Gertrud Höhler">Höhler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andreas_Krause_Landt" title="Andreas Krause Landt">Krause Landt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriele_Kuby" title="Gabriele Kuby">Kuby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal" title="Gerhard Löwenthal">Löwenthal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Maschke" title="Günter Maschke">Maschke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golo_Mann" title="Golo Mann">Mann (Golo)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhart_Maurer" title="Reinhart Maurer">Maurer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilman_Nagel" title="Tilman Nagel">Nagel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Nebel" title="Gerhard Nebel">Nebel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Otte" title="Max Otte">Otte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akif_Pirin%C3%A7ci" title="Akif Pirinçci">Pirinçci</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Rainer_R%C3%B6hl" title="Klaus Rainer Röhl">Röhl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%BCdiger_Safranski" title="Rüdiger Safranski">Safranski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thilo_Sarrazin" title="Thilo Sarrazin">Sarrazin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caspar_von_Schrenck-Notzing" title="Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing">von Schrenck-Notzing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heimo_Schwilk" title="Heimo Schwilk">Schwilk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieter_Stein" title="Dieter Stein">Stein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botho_Strauss" title="Botho Strauss">Strauss (Botho)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_St%C3%BCrmer" title="Michael Stürmer">Stürmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Tichy" title="Roland Tichy">Tichy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karlheinz_Wei%C3%9Fmann" title="Karlheinz Weißmann">Weißmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Zehrer" title="Hans Zehrer">Zehrer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainer_Zitelmann" title="Rainer Zitelmann">Zitelmann</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Politicians</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Adenauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Ancillon" title="Friedrich Ancillon">Ancillon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uwe_Barschel" title="Uwe Barschel">Barschel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">von Bismarck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_von_Bose" title="Herbert von Bose">von Bose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_Fehrenbach" title="Constantin Fehrenbach">Fehrenbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Filbinger" title="Hans Filbinger">Filbinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_von_Gerlach" title="Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach">von Gerlach</a></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Goerdeler" title="Carl Friedrich Goerdeler">Goerdeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Held" title="Heinrich Held">Held</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg" title="Paul von Hindenburg">von Hindenburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hugenberg" title="Alfred Hugenberg">Hugenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Jongen" title="Marc Jongen">Jongen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Jung" title="Edgar Jung">Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Kapp" title="Wolfgang Kapp">Kapp</a></li> <li> <a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Kohl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Krah" title="Maximilian Krah">Krah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lutz_Graf_Schwerin_von_Krosigk" title="Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk">von Krosigk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vera_Lengsfeld" title="Vera Lengsfeld">Lengsfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Georg_Maa%C3%9Fen" title="Hans-Georg Maaßen">Maaßen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Joachim_von_Merkatz" title="Hans-Joachim von Merkatz">von Merkatz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Merz" title="Friedrich Merz">Merz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Michaelis" title="Georg Michaelis">Michaelis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_von_Papen" title="Franz von Papen">von Papen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frauke_Petry" title="Frauke Petry">Petry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_von_Radowitz" title="Joseph von Radowitz">von Radowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Rauschning" title="Hermann Rauschning">Rauschning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Ritter_von_Kahr" title="Gustav Ritter von Kahr">Ritter von Kahr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albrecht_von_Roon" title="Albrecht von Roon">von Roon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Sch%C3%A4ffer" title="Fritz Schäffer">Schäffer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Sch%C3%A4ffler" title="Frank Schäffler">Schäffler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_von_Schleicher" title="Kurt von Schleicher">von Schleicher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Friedrich_Karl_vom_und_zum_Stein" title="Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein">vom und zum Stein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Stresemann" title="Gustav Stresemann">Stresemann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Friedrich_Karl_vom_und_zum_Stein" title="Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein">vom Stein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Stoecker" title="Adolf Stoecker">Stoecker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beatrix_von_Storch" title="Beatrix von Storch">von Storch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss" title="Franz Josef Strauss">Strauss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Wagener" title="Hermann Wagener">Wagener</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Weidel" title="Alice Weidel">Weidel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuno_von_Westarp" title="Kuno von Westarp">von Westarp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II" title="Wilhelm II">Wilhelm II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Winnig" title="August Winnig">Winnig</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Jurists</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst-Wolfgang_B%C3%B6ckenf%C3%B6rde" title="Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde">Böckenförde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Gierke" title="Otto von Gierke">von Gierke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justus_M%C3%B6ser" title="Justus Möser">Möser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Carl_von_Savigny" title="Friedrich Carl von Savigny">von Savigny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Schmitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Julius_Stahl" title="Friedrich Julius Stahl">Stahl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Heinrich_Wackenroder" title="Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder">Wackenroder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Wagener" title="Hermann Wagener">Wagener</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Activists</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Kohlmann" title="Martin Kohlmann">Kohlmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Kubitschek" title="Götz Kubitschek">Kubitschek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Sabaditsch-Wolff" title="Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff">Sabaditsch-Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Seibt" title="Naomi Seibt">Seibt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg" title="Claus von Stauffenberg">von Stauffenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_St%C3%BCrzenberger" title="Michael Stürzenberger">Stürzenberger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_von_Thurn_und_Taxis" title="Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis">von Thurn und Taxis (Elisabeth)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_von_Thurn_und_Taxis" title="Gloria von Thurn und Taxis">von Thurn und Taxis (Gloria)</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Parties</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"><b>Active</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany" title="Alternative for Germany">Alternative for Germany</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(AfD)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bavaria_Party" title="Bavaria Party">Bavaria Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(BP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCndnis_Deutschland" title="Bündnis Deutschland">Bündnis Deutschland</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(BD)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany" title="Christian Democratic Union of Germany">Christian Democratic Union of Germany</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(CDU)</span> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_in_Bavaria" title="Christian Social Union in Bavaria">Christian Social Union in Bavaria</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(CSU)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)" title="Centre Party (Germany)">Centre Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecological_Democratic_Party" title="Ecological Democratic Party">Ecological Democratic Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(ÖDP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Party_of_Germany" title="Family Party of Germany">Family Party of Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Republicans_(Germany)" title="The Republicans (Germany)">The Republicans</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(REP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Values_Union" title="Values Union">Values Union</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(WU)</span></li></ul> <p><b>Defunct</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bavarian_People%27s_Party" title="Bavarian People's Party">Bavarian People's Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(BVP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(Prussia)" title="Conservative Party (Prussia)">Conservative Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Conservative_Party" title="Free Conservative Party">Free Conservative Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(FKP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Conservative_Party" title="German Conservative Party">German Conservative Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(DkP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Freedom_Party" title="German Freedom Party">German Freedom Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_National_People%27s_Party" title="German National People's Party">German National People's Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(DNVP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Party_(1947)" title="German Party (1947)">German Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(DP)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_People%27s_Party" title="German People's Party">German People's Party</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(DVP)</span></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Organizations</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Aufbau_Vereinigung" title="Aufbau Vereinigung">Aufbau Vereinigung</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Bibliothek_des_Konservatismus" title="Bibliothek des Konservatismus">Bibliothek des Konservatismus</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung" title="Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung">Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Die_Deutschen_Konservativen" title="Die Deutschen Konservativen">Die Deutschen Konservativen</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forum_of_German_Catholics" title="Forum of German Catholics">Forum of German Catholics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerhard_L%C3%B6wenthal_Prize" title="Gerhard Löwenthal Prize">Gerhard Löwenthal Prize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Burschenschaft" title="German Burschenschaft">German Burschenschaft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citizens%27_Movement_Pax_Europa" title="Citizens' Movement Pax Europa">Citizens' Movement Pax Europa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanns_Seidel_Foundation" title="Hanns Seidel Foundation">Hanns Seidel Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Filbinger_Foundation" title="Hans Filbinger Foundation">Hans Filbinger Foundation</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Identitarian_movement#Germany" title="Identitarian movement">Identitäre Aktion</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Staatspolitik" class="mw-redirect" title="Institut für Staatspolitik">Institut für Staatspolitik</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer_Foundation" title="Konrad Adenauer Foundation">Konrad Adenauer Foundation</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pegida" title="Pegida">PEGIDA</a></i></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Studienzentrum_Weikersheim" title="Studienzentrum Weikersheim">Studienzentrum Weikersheim</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Tradition_und_Leben" title="Tradition und Leben">Tradition und Leben</a></i></span></li></ul> <p><b>Defunct</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Germany_Foundation" title="Germany Foundation">Germany Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Louise_League" title="Queen Louise League">Queen Louise League</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:1px solid #154E9D; 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The term <i>Nation</i> at this time is used in the sense of <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/natio#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:natio">natio</a></i> "nation, ethnic group, race", mostly replaced by the term <i>Volk</i> after 1800.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the early 19th century, the term <i>Volksgeist</i> was used by <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Carl_von_Savigny" title="Friedrich Carl von Savigny">Friedrich Carl von Savigny</a> in order to express the "popular" sense of <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>. Savigniy explicitly referred to the concept of an <i>esprit des nations</i> used by <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of the <i>esprit général</i> invoked by <a href="/wiki/Montesquieu" title="Montesquieu">Montesquieu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hegel uses the term in his <i><a href="/wiki/Lectures_on_the_Philosophy_of_History" title="Lectures on the Philosophy of History">Lectures on the Philosophy of History</a></i>. Based on the Hegelian use of the term, <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt" title="Wilhelm Wundt">Wilhelm Wundt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moritz_Lazarus" title="Moritz Lazarus">Moritz Lazarus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heymann_Steinthal" title="Heymann Steinthal">Heymann Steinthal</a> in the mid-19th-century established the field of <i><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkerpsychologie" title="Völkerpsychologie">Völkerpsychologie</a></i> ("psychology of nations"). </p><p>In Germany the concept of Volksgeist has developed and changed its meaning through eras and fields. The most important examples are: In the literary field, <a href="/wiki/August_Wilhelm_Schlegel" title="August Wilhelm Schlegel">Schlegel</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Brothers_Grimm" title="Brothers Grimm">Brothers Grimm</a>; in the history of cultures, <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a>; in the history of the State or political history, <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a>; in the field of law, <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Carl_von_Savigny" title="Friedrich Carl von Savigny">Savigny</a>; and in the field of psychology <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt" title="Wilhelm Wundt">Wundt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This means that the concept is ambiguous. Furthermore it is not limited to <a href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</a> as it is commonly known.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of was also influential in American cultural anthropology. According to the historian of anthropology <a href="/wiki/George_W._Stocking,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Stocking, Jr.">George W. Stocking, Jr.</a>, "… one may trace the later American anthropological idea of culture back through Bastian's Volkergedanken and the folk psychologist's Volksgeister to Wilhelm von Humboldt's Nationalcharakter – and behind that, although not without a paradoxical and portentous residue of conceptual and ideological ambiguity, to the Herderian ideal of Volksgeist."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (March 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="Need the year this event took place (March 2018)">year needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2018)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Zeitgeist"><i>Zeitgeist</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geist&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Zeitgeist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Zeitgeist" title="Zeitgeist">Zeitgeist</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Multiple_discovery" title="Multiple discovery">Multiple discovery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Epochalism" title="Epochalism">Epochalism</a></div> <p>The compound <i>Zeitgeist</i> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></span>/</a></span></span>;,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "spirit of the age" or "spirit of the times") similarly to <i>Weltgeist</i> describes an invisible agent or force dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in <a href="/wiki/World_history_(field)" title="World history (field)">world history</a>. The term is now mostly associated with <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a>, contrasting with Hegel's use of <i>Volksgeist</i> "national spirit" and <i>Weltgeist</i> "world-spirit", but its coinage and popularization precedes Hegel, and is mostly due to <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Zeitgeist_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zeitgeist-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term as used contemporarily may more pragmatically refer to a <a href="/wiki/Fad" title="Fad">fashion or fad</a> which prescribes what is acceptable or tasteful, e.g. in the field of <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-StF_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StF-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hegel in <i><a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="Phenomenology of the Spirit">Phenomenology of the Spirit</a></i> (1807) uses both <i>Weltgeist</i> and <i>Volksgeist</i> but prefers the phrase <i>Geist der Zeiten</i> "spirit of the times" over the <a href="/wiki/German_compound" class="mw-redirect" title="German compound">compound</a> <i>Zeitgeist</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hegel believed that culture and art reflected its time. Thus, he argued<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="Need the year this event took place (March 2018)">year needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2018)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> that it would be impossible to produce classical art in the modern world, as modernity is essentially a "free and ethical culture".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (March 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term has also been used more widely in the sense of an intellectual or aesthetic <a href="/wiki/Fashion" title="Fashion">fashion</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fad" title="Fad">fad</a>. For example, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>'s 1859 proposition that <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a> occurs by <a href="/wiki/Natural_selection" title="Natural selection">natural selection</a> has been cited as a case of the <i>zeitgeist</i> of the epoch, an idea "whose time had come", seeing that his contemporary, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace" title="Alfred Russel Wallace">Alfred Russel Wallace</a>, was outlining similar models during the same period.<sup id="cite_ref-Hothersall_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hothersall-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, intellectual fashions such as the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Logical_positivism" title="Logical positivism">logical positivism</a> in the 1920s, leading to a focus on <a href="/wiki/Behaviorism" title="Behaviorism">behaviorism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blank-slatism" class="mw-redirect" title="Blank-slatism">blank-slatism</a> over the following decades, and later, during the 1950s to 1960s, the shift from behaviorism to <a href="/wiki/Post-modernism" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-modernism">post-modernism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">critical theory</a> can be argued to be an expression of the intellectual or academic "zeitgeist".<sup id="cite_ref-Hothersall_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hothersall-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Zeitgeist</i> in more recent usage has been used by Forsyth (2009) in reference to his "theory of <a href="/wiki/Leadership" title="Leadership">leadership</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-Forsyth,_D._R._2009_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forsyth,_D._R._2009-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in other publications describing models of business or industry. <a 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Marvin Pate. <i>From Plato to Jesus: What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Theology?</i>. 2011, page 69. Rosenkranz, Karl. <i>Hegel, as the national philosopher of Germany</i>. 1874, page 85</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As observed by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gil" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Gil">Alexander Gil</a>, <i>The sacred philosophy of the holy scripture: laid down... in... the apostles</i> (1635): "The word Ghost in English [...] is as much as athem, or breath; in our new Latin language, a Spirit." Spenser in 1590 could still say <i>No knight so rude, I weene, As to doen outrage to a sleeping ghost</i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Faerie_Queene" class="mw-redirect" title="Faerie Queene">Faerie Queene</a></i> II. viii. 26), by "sleeping ghost" referring to the sleeping mind of a living person, not the ghost of a deceased one.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pfeifer-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Pfeifer_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dwds.de/wb/Geist#et-1">Geist</a> in Wolfgang Pfeifer, <i>Etymologisches Wörterbuch</i> ([1989] 2010).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Zeitgeist-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Zeitgeist_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Zeitgeist_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Zeitgeist</i> "spirit of the epoch" and <i>Nationalgeist</i> "spirit of a nation" in L. Meister, <i>Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschenrechte</i> (1789). <i>der frivole Welt- und Zeitgeist</i> ("the frivolous spirit of the world and the time") in <a href="/wiki/Lavater" class="mw-redirect" title="Lavater">Lavater</a>, <i>Handbibliothek für Freunde</i> 5 (1791), p. 57. <i>Zeitgeist</i> is popularized by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&hitlist=&patternlist=&lemid=GZ03558#XGZ03567">Zeitgeist</a> in Grimm, <i>Deutsches Wörterbuch</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.engyes.com/en/dic-content/Weltgeist">"Definition/Meaning of Weltgeist"</a>. EngYes<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-12-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Definition%2FMeaning+of+Weltgeist&rft.pub=EngYes&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engyes.com%2Fen%2Fdic-content%2FWeltgeist&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeist" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GW16923#XGW16923">Weltgeist</a> in Grimm, <i>Deutsches Wörterbuch</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rudolf Eisler<i>Wörterbuch der philosophischen Begriffe</i> (1904), 406ff., 1760f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Korff, <i>Geist der Göthezeit</i> (1923).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. U. von König, <i>Gedichte</i> (1745) p. 253</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Herder, "Die Gärten der Hesperiden", <i>Ausgewählte Werke</i> 1, ed. Kurz (1871), p. 223.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hegel, <i>Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte</i> (ed. 1944), 96f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">den Kaiser – diese Weltseele – sah ich durch die Stadt zum Rekognoszieren hinausreiten; es ist in der Tat eine wunderbare Empfindung, ein solches Individuum zu sehen, das hier auf einen Punkt konzentriert, auf einem Pferde sitzend, über die Welt übergreift und sie beherrscht.</i></span> Hegel, letter of 13 October 1806 to F. I. Niethammer, no. 74 (p. 119) in <i>Briefe von und an Hegel</i> ed. Hoffmeister, vol. 1 (1970), cited after H. Schnädelbach in Wolfgang Welsch, Klaus Vieweg (eds.), <i>Das Interesse des Denkens: Hegel aus heutiger Sicht</i>, Wilhelm Fink Verlag (2003), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NrkPdUO5VRsC&pg=PA233">p. 223</a>; trans. Pinkard (2000:228).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">L. Noack, <i>Schelling und die Philosophie der Romantik</i>, 1859, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7NO__b_nwrsC&pg=PA153">p. 153</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen</i> 2 (1861) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4zBFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA770">p. 770</a>,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">e.g. G. Baur in <i>Reden gehalten in der Aula der Universität Leipzig beim Rectoratswechsel am 31. October 1874</i> (1874), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=INxiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36">p. 36</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/volksgeist">"Volksgeist – Encyclopedia.com"</a>. Encyclopedia.com. 2019-11-26<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-12-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Volksgeist+%E2%80%93+Encyclopedia.com&rft.pub=Encyclopedia.com&rft.date=2019-11-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.com%2Fhistory%2Fdictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases%2Fvolksgeist&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeist" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Christoph Mährlein, <i>Volksgeist und Recht. Hegels Philosophie der Einheit und ihre Bedeutung in der Rechtswissenschaft</i>, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg (2000), 17f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations</i>, 1756.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Vom Geist der Gesetze</i>, 1748.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Joxe_Azurmendi" title="Joxe Azurmendi">Azurmendi, Joxe</a>: <i>Volksgeist-Herri Gogoa. Ilustraziotik nazismora</i>, p. 65</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Joxe_Azurmendi" title="Joxe Azurmendi">Azurmendi, Joxe</a>: <i>Volksgeist-Herri Gogoa. Ilustraziotik nazismora</i>, p. 285</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/zeitgeist">"zeitgeist noun – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=zeitgeist+noun+%E2%80%93+Definition%2C+pictures%2C+pronunciation+and+usage+notes+%26%23124%3B+Oxford+Advanced+Learner%27s+Dictionary+at+OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com%2Fdefinition%2Fenglish%2Fzeitgeist&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeist" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-StF-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-StF_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEero_Saarinen2006" class="citation cs2">Eero Saarinen (2006), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yvqZt9ZnmYUC"><i>Shaping the Future</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yvqZt9ZnmYUC&pg=PA15">15</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-972-48812-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-972-48812-9"><bdi>978-0-972-48812-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shaping+the+Future&rft.pages=15&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-972-48812-9&rft.au=Eero+Saarinen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyvqZt9ZnmYUC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeist" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> c.f. use of the phrase <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">der Geist seiner Zeit</i></span> ("the spirit of his time") in <i><a href="/wiki/Lectures_on_the_Philosophy_of_History" title="Lectures on the Philosophy of History">Lectures on the Philosophy of History</a></i>, for example, "no man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time is also his own spirit." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGlenn_Alexander_Magee2010" class="citation cs2">Glenn Alexander Magee (2010), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=khvwPJMzNzMC&dq=Zeitgeist&pg=PA262">"Zeitgeist (p. 262)"</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=khvwPJMzNzMC"><i>The Hegel Dictionary</i></a>, London: <a href="/wiki/A_%26_C_Black" title="A & C Black">A & C Black</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-847-06591-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-847-06591-9"><bdi>978-1-847-06591-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Zeitgeist+%28p.+262%29&rft.btitle=The+Hegel+Dictionary&rft.place=London&rft.pub=A+%26+C+Black&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-847-06591-9&rft.au=Glenn+Alexander+Magee&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkhvwPJMzNzMC%26dq%3DZeitgeist%26pg%3DPA262&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeist" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hendrix, John Shannon. <i>Aesthetics & The Philosophy Of Spirit</i>. New York: Peter Lang. (2005). 4, 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hothersall-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hothersall_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hothersall_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hothersall, D., "History of Psychology", 2004, <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (March 2018)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Forsyth,_D._R._2009-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Forsyth,_D._R._2009_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Forsyth, D. R. (2009). Group dynamics: New York: Wadsworth. [Chapter 9]</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><i>Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Derrida" title="Jacques Derrida">Jacques Derrida</a>. Translation by Geoffrey Bennington & Rachel Bowlby, Chicago University Press, 1989 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-14317-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-14317-1">0-226-14317-1</a>) and 1991 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-14319-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-226-14319-8">0-226-14319-8</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin" title="Isaiah Berlin">Berlin, Isaiah</a>: <i>Vico and Herder. Two Studies in the History of Ideas</i>, London, 1976.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Stocking,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Stocking, Jr.">Stocking, George W.</a> 1996. 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