Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Johann Gottfried Herder – the “Inventor of Zeitgeist”? 8
5. 2. The Making of Zeitgeist – Culture and Public Spirit between Enfranchisement and Control 27
6. 3. The Public and Zeitgeist – Public Spirit and Public Opinion 1790–1800 50
7. 4. Zeitgeist in Germany – Public Opinion, History, and the People in Franz Josias von Hendrich, Ernst Brandes, and Ernst Moritz Arndt 85
8. 5. Zeitgeist in Britain – The Spirit of the Age and Social Reform in Julius Hare, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, and J. S. Mill 129
9. 6. How Ideas Travel (in Theory): The Zeitgeist Dynamic 234
10. 7. How an Idea Travels (in Practice) – A Case Study 243
11. Works Cited 327
12. Index 338