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 theory and offers new contexts and understandings of the phenomenon.

'Halton has creatively introduced a new voice into the current pursuit of the 'axial age,' so thoroughly that readers who will never see Stuart-Glennie's rare books leave Halton's analysis with a clear understanding of what until now has been missing from the record. Intellectual historians are always on the look-out for fresh, previously overlooked material to reanimate. Halton has thus resurrected Stuart-Glennie with dedication and skill."

• Alan Sica, Professor of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

  Autorentext
  Eugene Halton is Professor in the Deptartment of Sociology and the Deptarment of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

  Inhalt
  Preface 1. Jaspers, Stuart-Glennie and the Origins of the Theory 2. Religion, Habitat, and Cosmos 3. Panzoonism, the Bioticon, and the 500 Year Cycles of History 4. Islands of Light 5. Jaspers and Mumford 6. The Next Transformation? 7. The Moral Revolution and the Modern Revolution Today