standpoint, and that competing accounts of an era's spirit may coexist.

Theory of leadership

Hegel in Phenomenology of the Spirit (1807) uses both Weltgeist and Volksgeist, but prefers the phrase Geist der Zeiten "spirit of the times" over the compound Zeitgeist.

The Hegelian concept is in contrast to the Great Man theory propounded by Thomas Carlyle,

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