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Torpey, John
How should we think about the "shape” of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age” of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and intellectual developments emerged, was only one of three such decisive periods that can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction.
Preface vii Introduction 1 1. The Moral Axial Age 7 2. The Material Axial Age 33 3. The Mental Axial Age 50 Notes 79 Index 97