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is originally a German expression that means "the spirit ''( Geist )'' of the time ''(Zeit)''". It denotes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. The German pronunciation of the word is ( IPA ). The concept of ''Zeitgeist'' goes back to ) and introduced the word ''Zeitgeist'' into German as a translation of genius seculi ( Latin : genius - "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the century"). The German Romantics, habitually tempted to reduce the past to essences, treated the ''Zeitgeist'' as a historical character in its own right, rather than a mere conceptual instrument. ''Zeitgeist'' has achieved a unique status among German Loanwords in other tongues, having found an entrance into English , Spanish , Dutch and even Japanese . It is a term that refers to the Ethos of a Cohort of people, that spans one or more subsequent Generation s, who despite their diverse age and Socio-economic background experience a certain Worldview , which is prevalent at a particular period of socio-cultural progression. Zeitgeist is the experience of a dominant cultural climate that defines, particularly in Hegelian thinking, an era in the Dialectical Progression of a people or the World at large. According to Hegel, the Zeitgeist always incarnated itself in a specific ''Volksgeist'' ("Volk" meaning "people"), which itselfs was personalized by an individual Hero , symbolized by Napoleon . Once the hero's mission was accomplished, history would abandon it as a dry shell, and the Zeitgeist be transferred to another ''Volksgeist'', where another hero would emerge to complete the unfolding of the spiritual Being in history itself. QUOTATIONS
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