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The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Robert N. Bellah
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Description for The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Bellah, Robert N.; Joas, Hans. Num Pages: 560 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFSR; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 244 x 42. Weight in Grams: 972.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
972g
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674066496
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V9780674066496
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About Robert N. Bellah
Robert N. Bellah was Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. Hans Joas is Permanent Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Highly recommended for readers of Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution and students of religious philosophy and evolutionary sociology.
Brian Odom Library Journal 20120915
Brian Odom Library Journal 20120915