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Zeitgeist
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Zeitgeist
[tsīt′gīst]
Etymology: Ger
literally, the spirit of the time, a climate of opinion, a convention of thought, or implicit assumptions.


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Grimm, with Volksgeist in mind, thought that Wiglaf 's denunciation of Beowulf 's faithless companions had legal force as a formal expression of banishment.
Ancient Privileges: 'Beowulf', Law, and the Making of Germanic ... by Breeze, Andrew / Yearbook of English Studies
I have in mind here the ways in which he subjects the notion of volksgeist in Savigny (in Stone, J, 1966), and of jural postulates in Pound (in Stone, J, 1965) to interlocution arsing from, and its further recomposition, from the experience of postcolonial societies, especially of India.
Revisiting social dimensions of law and justice in a posthuman era by Baxi, Upendra / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal
Here Du Bois described a "Negro ideal" very much in Hegelian terms as a sort of biologically-rooted Volksgeist ("Conservation" 40).
W. E. B. Du Bois's UnAmerican end by Melamed, Jodi / African American Review
 
 
 
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