Be warned, though, that my approach to ideology is resolutely acausal. An introduction to cyclical models of history. His model had both cyclical and linear elements. Like Toynbee, Gobineau's model is both cyclical and linear, but here all the lines point downwards. An introduction to linear models of history.
Structuralism is wonderful.
This section considers such familiar topics as premillennialism, Augustine and the idea of progress, Joachim of Fiore and the three-stage model of history. I discuss the possibility that a millenarian movement may be what you get when a liturgical system collapses. If you scratch some forms of fascism and the occult, and even elements of popular culture, you will find a myth about a new species that will replace the current human race in the next age of the world. People who believe this kind of thing have sometimes been keen to engineer the beginning of this New Age. The ramifications of this notion are surprising, to say the least.