Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2 by Giuseppe ... - 9781611863574

Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2Christianity and Modernity\nAuthor(s): Giuseppe Fornari\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Michigan State University Press, United States\nImprint: Michigan State University Press\nISBN-13: 9781611863574, 978-1611863574\nSynopsis\nThis 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 convergenceof at-one-mentsomeone 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 reason.