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Geist (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect .
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a Zeitgeist [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ⓘ; lit. ' spirit of the age '; capitalized in German) is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. [2]
The Phenomenology of Spirit (German: Phänomenologie des Geistes) is the most widely discussed philosophical work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; its German title can be translated as either The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind. Hegel described the work, published in 1807, as an "exposition of the coming to be of knowledge ...
Geistesgeschichte (from German Geist, "spirit" or "mind" [here connoting the metaphysical realm, in contradistinction to the material], and Geschichte, "history") is a concept in the history of ideas denoting the branch of study concerned with the undercurrents of cultural manifestations, within the history of a people, that are peculiar to a specific timeframe.
In German folklore and ghostlore, a poltergeist (/ ˈ p oʊ l t ər ˌ ɡ aɪ s t / or / ˈ p ɒ l t ər ˌ ɡ aɪ s t /; German: [ˈpɔltɐɡaɪ̯st] ⓘ; ' rumbling ghost ' or ' noisy spirit ') is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed.
Geisteswissenschaft (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪstəsˌvɪsənʃaft]; plural: Geisteswissenschaften [ˈɡaɪstəsˌvɪsənʃaftən]; "science of mind"; lit. "spirit science") is a set of human sciences such as philosophy, history, philology, musicology, linguistics, theater studies, literary studies, media studies, religious studies and sometimes even jurisprudence, that are traditional in ...
Author Salman Rushdie looks on as he receives the Peace Prize of the German book trade (Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) during a ceremony at the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt, Germany ...
The German Geist has a wide range of meanings. [162] In its most general Hegelian sense, however, " Geist denotes the human mind and its products, in contrast to nature and also the logical idea." [ 163 ] (Some older translations render it as "mind," rather than "spirit."