Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Axiality in pre-modernity -- 1 The Axial Age: First flowering of a new vision -- 2 Axial Greece: Sowing the seeds of four biases -- 3 Int…
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