The Axial Age and Its Consequences

The Axial Age and Its Consequences
ISBN-10
0674067401
ISBN-13
9780674067400
Category
Religion
Pages
561
Language
English
Published
2012-10-31
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Authors
Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas

Description

This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.

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