The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousness

This article focuses on Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age, some of its critical appropriation, and how in particular Habermas has returned to this idea, after several critical engagements with Jaspers's work through his long scholarly productivity. The article, however, centers on Hab...

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Veröffentlicht in:Critical research on religion
1. VerfasserIn: Mendieta, Eduardo 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage [2018]
In: Critical research on religion
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Jaspers, Karl 1883-1969 / Achsenzeit / Habermas, Jürgen 1929- / Postsäkularismus / Bewusstsein
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
VA Philosophie
ZA Sozialwissenschaften
ZB Soziologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Modernity
B Cultural History
B evolutionary history
B Axial Age
B postmetaphysical
B Postsecular
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Zusammenfassung:This article focuses on Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age, some of its critical appropriation, and how in particular Habermas has returned to this idea, after several critical engagements with Jaspers's work through his long scholarly productivity. The article, however, centers on Habermas's selective and critical use of Jaspers's notion in his own latest and extensive engagement with what he calls "a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking." The goal of the article is to identify the ways in which Habermas is refurbishing Jaspers's generative concept, but at the same time, how his work on postsecular consciousness opens itself to some liabilities by not taking enough distance from the concept.
ISSN:2050-3040
Enthält:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/2050303218800379