Axial Age and Its Consequences

Name: Axial Age and Its Consequences
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ISBN: 9780674066496

ISBN-10: 0674066499

ISBN-13: 9780674066496

Edition: 2012

Authors: Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas

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The first classics in human history—the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages—appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical texts of the Hebrew scriptures, the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle, the Analects of Confucius and the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of the Buddha—all of these works came down to us from the compressed period of history that Karl Jaspers memorably named the Axial Age.In The Axial Age and Its Consequences, Robert Bellah and Hans Joas make the bold claim that intellectual sophistication itself was born worldwide during this critical time. Across…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 500
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.49" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



Introduction



Fundamental Questions



The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse




What Was the Axial Revolution?




An Evolutionary Approach to Culture: Implications for the Study of the Axial Age




Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency: Anthropological Features of the Axial Age




The Axial Age in Global History: Cultural Crystallizations and Societal Transformations




The Buddha's Meditative Trance: Visionary Knowledge, Aphoristic Thinking, and Axial Age Rationality in Early Buddhism




The Idea of Transcendence



A Comparative Perspective



Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Theory of Religious Evolution




Where Do Axial Commitments Reside? Problems in Thinking about the African Case




The Axial Age Theory: A Challenge to Historism or an Explanatory Device of Civilization Analysis? With a Look at the Normative Discourse in Axial Age China



Destructive Possibilities?



The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Their Institutionalizations: Constructive and Destructive Possibilities




Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence




Righteous Rebels: When, Where, and Why?



Reevaluations



Rehistoricizing the Axial Age




Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age



Perspectives, on the Future



The Axial Invention of Education and Today's Global Knowledge Culture




The Future of Transcendence: A Sociological Agenda




The Heritage of the Axial Age: Resource or Burden?



Bibliography: Works on the Axial Age


Contributors


Index