The Axial Age and Its Consequences |
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| Editor:
| Bellah, Robert N.
Joas, Hans |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-06649-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Imprint: | Belknap Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $86.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.