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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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781611863567
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-61186-356-7
- Verlag: Michigan State University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.11.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2020
- Serie: Studies in Violence, Mimesis &
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 826 g
- Seiten: 641
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 222 x 45 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt