Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is originally a German expression, which means "the spirit (Geist) of the time (Zeit)". It denotes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era.
It is a term that refers to the ethos of a cohort of people, that spans one or more subsequent generations, 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.
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Apart from its basic meaning it may be referring to one of the following:
- ZeitGeist, a German magazine
- Zeitgeist Films Ltd., an American independent film company
- The Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Zeitgeist, a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling (ISBN 0553576410).
- The Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center a non-profit organization in New Orleans, Louisiana
- The Adventures of Phoebe Zeitgeist, a comic strip serial (or its title heroine) by Michael O'Donoghue and Frank Springer that first appeared in The Evergreen Review
- Zeitgeist Games, American maker of role playing games
- A Google report of the fastest changing and most popular online searches