The most obvious example of the influence of Vico's cyclical theory of history is to be found in the opening and closing words of the book.
He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
In both books we find him passionately concerned with the nature of time and vigorously rejecting cyclical theories of history.
The framework of Finnegans Wake is based on a cyclical theory of history borrowed from which thinker?
He did not claim to be absolutely original in his cyclical theory of constitutional changes.
Now there are just a handful (though, true to the cyclical theory of history, old walls are being reconstructed - in Datong, for instance).
The cyclical theory refers to a model used by historian Arthur Schlesinger to attempt to explicate the fluctuations in politics throughout American History.
The cyclical theory is a tool to analyze political, social, and economic change with philosophy, identifying recurring trends and correlations.
He wrote about what he called the Mathematics of History, a cyclical theory on the evolution of civilizations.
(with Edwin A. Winckler) Compliance succession in rural Communist China: A cyclical theory.