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Multiple Axialities: A Computational Model of the Axial Age
Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2018AbstractDebates over the causes and consequences of the “Axial Age” – and its relevance for understanding and explaining “modernity” – continue to rage within and across a wide variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, archaeology, history, social theory, and cognitive science. We present a computational model that synthesizes
F. LeRon Shults +4 more
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what is axial about the axial age?
European Journal of Sociology, 2005the idea of an axial age in the mid-first millennium b.c. has a long history but was crystallized by karl jaspers in his 1949 book the meaning and goal of history. since then, voegelin, eisenstadt and many others have contributed to clarifying the four cases of axial “breakthrough”, to use jaspers's term, namely ancient israel, greece, india, and china.
R. Bellah
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Karl Jaspers and the Axial Age
Practicing Transcendence, 2019Karl Jaspers’ articulation of the Axial Age thesis has led to a contemporary explosion of scholarship on the topic. The history of scholarship on the Axial Age is briefly summarized before focusing on Jaspers’ proposal: the Axial Age as a breakthrough to transcendence is a dividing line within world history was a spiritual revolution that reoriented ...
Christopher Peet
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2012
In 1987, the historian Uma Chakravarti from New Delhi published a book on the social dimension of Buddhism.’ She repeated her ideas in a seminar at the Center of Social Analysis in Madurai in July 2005 under the title “Can Dalit/Buddhist Culture Be an Anti-Capitalist Resource”?2 In her view, Siddharta Gautama experienced his conversion and ...
Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert
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In 1987, the historian Uma Chakravarti from New Delhi published a book on the social dimension of Buddhism.’ She repeated her ideas in a seminar at the Center of Social Analysis in Madurai in July 2005 under the title “Can Dalit/Buddhist Culture Be an Anti-Capitalist Resource”?2 In her view, Siddharta Gautama experienced his conversion and ...
Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert
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Myth, Modernity, and the Legacy of the Axial Age: Taylor, Habermas, Assmann, and Jaspers
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2023:This article analyzes the legacy of the idea of an Axial Age with a particular focus on Habermas, Taylor, Assmann, and Jaspers. I ask what has motivated the use of the concept and illustrate the ways in which it is situated in the twentieth-century ...
C. Dege
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