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Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2, 2: Christianity and Modernity

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Michigan State University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 4.1 cm

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This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them. Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience, gives society unity and meaning, putting human beings in contact with a universal object known as the world or reality. But unity has a price: the very force that enables peaceful coexistence also makes us prone to conflict. As a result, in order to find a common point of convergence--of at-one-ment--someone must be sacrificed. Sacrifice, then, is the historical pillar of mediation. It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings. Today, as we face the collapse of all shared mediations, this intermediating solution offers a way out of our moral and cultural plight.

  • Title

    Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2, 2: Christianity and Modernity

  • Author

    Giuseppe Fornari

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Michigan State University Press

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    750g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 4.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781611863574

  • ISBN-10

    1611863570

  • Eden Code

    5122821

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