LEADER 05146nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910817185103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07044-5 010 $a0-674-06740-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067400 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275848 035 $a(EBL)3301151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755095 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755095 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10729966 035 $a(PQKB)11039849 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301151 035 $a(DE-B1597)178016 035 $a(OCoLC)816110086 035 $a(OCoLC)840437689 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067400 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614392 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275848 100 $a20120316d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Axial Age and its consequences /$fedited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (560 pages) 300 $aRev. papers delivered at a conference held July 3-5, 2008 at the University of Erfurt. 311 0 $a0-674-06649-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction /$rBellah, Robert N. / Joas, Hans --$tFundamental Questions --$t1 The Axial Age Debate as Religious Discourse /$rJoas, Hans --$t2 What Was the Axial Revolution? /$rTaylor, Charles --$t3 An Evolutionary Approach to Culture /$rDonald, Merlin --$t4 Embodiment, Transcendence, and Contingency /$rJung, Matthias --$t5 The Axial Age in Global History /$rWittrock, Björn --$t6 The Buddha's Meditative Trance /$rObeyesekere, Gananath --$t7 The Idea of Transcendence /$rDalferth, Ingolf U. --$tA Comparative Perspective --$t8 Religion, the Axial Age, and Secular Modernity in Bellah's Theory of Religious Evolution /$rCasanova, José --$t9 Where Do Axial Commitments Reside? /$rSwidler, Ann --$t10 The Axial Age Theory /$rRoetz, Heiner --$tDestructive Possibilities? --$t11 The Axial Conundrum between Transcendental Visions and Vicissitudes of Their Institutionalizations /$rEisenstadt, Shmuel N. --$t12 Axial Religions and the Problem of Violence /$rMartin, David --$t13 Righteous Rebels /$rRunciman, W. G. --$tReevaluations --$t14 Rehistoricizing the Axial Age /$rArnason, Johann P. --$t15 Cultural Memory and the Myth of the Axial Age /$rAssmann, Jan --$tPerspectives on the Future --$t16 The Axial Invention of Education and Today's Global Knowledge Culture /$rSullivan, William M. --$t17 The Future of Transcendence /$rMadsen, Richard --$t18 The Heritage of the Axial Age /$rBellah, Robert N. --$tBibliography --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aCivilization, Ancient$vCongresses 606 $aComparative civilization$vCongresses 606 $aPhilosophy, Comparative$vCongresses 606 $aReligions$vCongresses 615 0$aCivilization, Ancient 615 0$aComparative civilization 615 0$aPhilosophy, Comparative 615 0$aReligions 676 $a930 701 $aBellah$b Robert Neelly$f1927-$0142498 701 $aJoas$b Hans$f1948-$0123079 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817185103321 996 $aThe Axial Age and its consequences$94088767 997 $aUNINA