Abstract

Part I. The golden age and primitivism -- The savages -- Prometheus and Orpheus -- Atlantis -- Part II. The blossoming and decline of culture -- The age of blossoming in Athens -- Alexandria -- Part III. The problem of a national golden age -- The Roman model: golden age as a modern disease -- From classicism to romanticism -- Part IV. Kingdom of God -- German tradition of chiliasm -- From eschatology to kairology -- The gospel of nature -- Medievalism as the externalisation of the golden age -- Conclusion.