%0 Journal Article
%T The Axial Age, social evolution, and postsecular consciousness
%A Eduardo Mendieta
%J Critical Research on Religion
%@ 2050-3040
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2050303218800379
%X 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
%K Axial Age
%K postsecular
%K evolutionary history
%K cultural history
%K postmetaphysical
%K modernity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2050303218800379