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

by Giuseppe Fornari

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863570
• ISBN13: 9781611863574
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"