The Axial Age and Its Consequences

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The Axial Age and Its Consequences is written by Robert N. Bellah and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674070445 (ISBN 10) and 9780674070448 (ISBN 13).

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.