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. Sacrifice 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.

About the author

GIUSEPPE FORNARI is Professor of History of Philosophy at Bergamo University, Italy.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Giuseppe Fornari
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611863574
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-357-4
• No. of pages: 588
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis &; Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture; Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity