The Axial Age and Its Consequences / Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas.
Bellah, Robert N., author.; Joas, Hans, author.
2012
CB311 .A885 2012eb
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource
Online Access

Details

Title
The Axial Age and Its Consequences / Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas.
Author
Bellah, Robert N., author.
ISBN
9780674067400
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067400
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (500 p.) : 4 tables
Item Number
10.4159/harvard.9780674067400 doi
Call Number
CB311 .A885 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
930
Summary
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 Eurasia, a new self-reflective attitude toward human existence emerged, and with it an awakening to the concept of transcendence. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter through human thought and action. Bellah and Joas have assembled diverse scholars to guide us through this astonishing efflorescence of religious and philosophical creativity. As they explore the varieties of theorizing that arose during the period, they consider how these in turn led to utopian visions that brought with them the possibility of both societal reform and repression. The roots of our continuing discourse on religion, secularization, inequality, education, and the environment all lie in Axial Age developments. Understanding this transitional era, the authors contend, is not just an academic project but a humanistic endeavor.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
Added Author
Joas, Hans, author.
In
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
E-BOOK PACKAGE THEOLOGY, JUDAISM, RELIGION 2012
E-BOOK PAKET THEOLOGIE,RELIGIONSWISS., JUDAISTIK 2012
HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse
2 What Was the Axial Revolution?
3 An Evolutionary Approach to Culture
4 Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency
5 The Axial Age in Global History
6 The Buddha's Meditative Trance
7 The Idea of Transcendence
8 Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Th eory of Religious Evolution
9 Where Do Axial Commitments Reside?
10 The Axial Age Theory
11 The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Th eir Institutionalizations
12 Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence
13 Righ teous Rebels
14 Rehistoricizing the Axial Age
15 Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age
16 The Axial Invention of Education and Today's Global Knowledge Culture
17 The Future of Transcendence
18 The Heritage of the Axial Age
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export