The Origins and diversity of axial age civilizations /
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
