Mapping the Zeitgeist
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The concept represented by the term “zeitgeist” is such a universally appealing one that “zeitgeist” is one of the few loanwords adopted into English whole cloth from the modern German language. Literally translated, the term means “ghost of time”, but the term is mostly commonly used to represent the idea of the “spirit of the era”. In this paper, we inquire about the spatial component of this spirit. In other words, what is the spatial footprint of an era’s zeitgeist? Where is this “spirit of the age” hovering in any given era?
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تاریخ انتشار 2008