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According to Hegel biographer D. R. Forsyth, Leo Tolstoy disagreed with Carlyle's perspective, instead believing that leadership, like other things, was a product of the "zeitgeist", [year needed] [page needed] the social circumstances at the time. [7] Great Man theory and zeitgeist theory may be included in two main areas of thought in ...
The title, Zeitgeist, italic since a non-English word, capitalised since a German noun, does not seem respected in the body text. There we see Zeitgeist, zeitgeist and zeitgeist, the last of these is just wrong, if we indicate a foreign word with italicisation, then we should respect the rules of that language. The second, non-italicised, not ...
The German word Zeitgeist is one such example: one who speaks or understands the language may "know" what it means, but any translation of the word apparently fails to accurately capture its full meaning (this is a problem with many abstract words, especially those derived in agglutinative languages).
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Both the public and corporate workshops are half-day events, but over the years many people have been doing the workshop on their own, usually taking about three hours to get through the 10 questions. Watching them succeed so well on their own helped me realize this really can be a simple do-it-yourself process.
For example, the word “book” can be used to denote an abstract object (e.g., “he is reading the book”) or a concrete one (e.g., “the book is on the chair”); the name “London” can denote at the same time a set of buildings, the air of a place and the character of a population (think to the sentence “London is so gray, polluted ...
Alternatively you can use the pull-down menu of Latin characters provided by Mediawiki: click on the desired letter. You can also use the option key (on a Mac) or the alt key (on a PC). All German words in English text should be set in italics, except those that have entered the English language as loan words (such as "zeitgeist" and "gestalt").
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is the third installment in Peter Joseph's Zeitgeist film series. The film premiered at the JACC Theater in Los Angeles on January 15, 2011, at the Artivist Film Festival, [21] was released in theaters and online. As of November 2014, the film had over 23 million views on YouTube.
In German, the word has a neutral connotation, e.g. Ersatzrad simply means "spare wheel" (not an inferior one). Flak , Fl ug a bwehr k anone , literally: air-defence cannon , for anti-aircraft artillery or their shells, also used in flak jacket ; or in the figurative sense: "drawing flak" = being heavily criticized