@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674067400, recid = {1403951}, author = {Bellah, Robert N. and Joas, Hans,}, title = {The Axial Age and its consequences [electronic resource] /}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,}, address = {Cambridge, Mass. :}, number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674067400}, pages = {1 online resource (ix, 548 p.)}, year = {2012}, note = {Rev. papers delivered at a conference held July 3-5, 2008 at the University of Erfurt.}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1403951}, }