The Origins and diversity of axial age civilizations /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Makhon le-meḥḳar ʻal shem Heri S. Ṭruman, Mosad Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim
Otros Autores: Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1986.
Colección:SUNY series in Near Eastern studies.
Temas:
Civilization, Ancient.
Comparative civilization.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilisation ancienne.
Civilisation comparée.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Ancient
Comparative civilization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The axial age breakthroughs
  • their characteristics and origins / S.N. Eisenstadt
  • The emergence of second-order thinking in classical Greece / Yehuda Elkana
  • The emergence of an autonomous intelligence among the Greeks / Christian Meier
  • Dynamics of the Greek breakthrough: the dialogue between philosophy and religion / S.C. Humphreys
  • The meaning of the word [body] in the axial age: an interpretation of Plato's Cratylus 400C / R. Ferwerda
  • The axial age breakthrough in ancient Israel / S.N. Eisenstadt
  • Myth and reality in ancient Israel / Benjamin Uffenheimer
  • The protest against imperialism in ancient Israelite prophecy / Moshe Weinfeld
  • On self-consciousness in Mesopotamia / Peter Machinist
  • Monarchy and the elite in Assyria and Babylonia: the question of royal accountability / Hayim Tadmor
  • Eschatology, remythologization, and cosmic aporia / Michael E. Stone
  • Old wine and new bottles: on patristic soteriology and Rabbinic Judaism / Gredaliahu G. Stroumsa
  • The role of Christianity in the depolitization of the Roman Empire / Hans G. Kippenberg
  • Architects of competing transcendental visions in late antiquity / G.W. Bowersock
  • Historical conditions of the emergence and crystallization of the Confucian System / Cho-Yun Hsu
  • Was there a transcendental breakthrough in China? / Mark Elvin
  • The structure and function of the Confucian intellectual in Ancient China / Tu Wei-Ming
  • The historical background of India's Axial Age / Hermann Kulke
  • Ritual, revelation, and the Axial Age / J.C. Heesterman
  • Aśvatthāman and Bṛhannaḍā: Brahmin and Kingly Paradigms in the Sanskrit epic / David Shulman
  • Some observations on the place of intellectuals in Max Weber's sociology, with special reference to Hinduism / Edward Shils
  • The reflexive and institutional achievements of early Buddhism / Stanley J. Tambiah
  • The emergence of Islamic civilisation / Michael Cook.

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