From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution: John Stuart-Glennie, Karl Jaspers, and a New Understanding of the Idea
In 1873, John Stuart Stuart-Glennie elaborated a theory of 'the moral revolution' to characterize the historical shift from roughly 600 BCE in a variety of civilizations, as part of a critical theory of history. This book brings light to the now eclipsed
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137473509.0001
10.1057/9781137473509 - From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution, Eugene Halton
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From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution
Also by Eugene Halton THE GREAT BRAIN SUCK: And Other American Epiphanies MEANING AND MODERNITY: Social Theory in the Pragmatic Attitude THE MEANING OF THINGS: Domestic Symbols and the Self (with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
DOI: 10.1057/9781137473509.0001
10.1057/9781137473509 - From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution, Eugene Halton
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BEREFT OF REASON: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal
Eugene Halton
DOI: 10.1057/9781137473509.0001
10.1057/9781137473509 - From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution, Eugene Halton
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From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution: John Stuart-Glennie, Karl Jaspers, and a New Understanding of the Idea
From the Axıal Age to the Moral Revolutıon Copyright © Eugene Halton, 2014. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–47351–6 EPUB ISBN: 978–1–137–47350–9 PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–44158–4 Hardback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. First edition: 2014 www.palgrave.com/pivot doı: 10.1057/9781137473509
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137473509.0001
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For Barbara
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
1 Jaspers, Stuart-Glennie, and the Origins of the Theory
vi
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2 Religion, Habitat, and Cosmos
23
3 Panzoonism, the Bioticon, and the 500-Year Cycles of History
45
4 Islands of Light
61
5 Jaspers and Mumford
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