One Exceptional Figure Stood Out
Perry Anderson: Dmitri Furman, 30 July 2015
“... in countless eirenic textbooks on Faiths of the World.5 A sub-variant joins the sociology of Parsons with the philosophy of Jaspers in wonder at the simultaneous emergence of transcendent creeds – Greek, Jewish, Chinese, Indian – in an Axial Age of religious awakening, an evolutionary leap forward in mankind’s journey to modernity, of which we are ... ”