X, Y and Z Strauss’ and Howe's Theory of Generational Cycles in the Light of Former Theories

Maciej Folta

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The aim of this paper is to familiarize Polish academic readers with hypothesis of secular cycle introduced by William Straussa and Neil Howe. In their book, The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny, authors propose to look at human generations succession as a cycle, during which some tendecnies and attitudes rise and fall. I will present the notions of the book compared to some classic theorists of generations, like, among others, Mannheim, Ortega y Gasset, Garewicz. 


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generation; generational cycle; secular cycle; historiosophy; metahistory

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ks.2020.8.2.23-37
Date of publication: 2021-05-18 13:49:19
Date of submission: 2021-05-17 22:42:00


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