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Dionysus, Christ, and the death of God . Volume 2, Christianity and modernity /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fornari, Giuseppe, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (588 pages)
ISBN:9781609176327
1609176324