First Things RSS Feed - John J. Savant https://www.firstthings.com/author/john-j-savant en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:27 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/john-j-savant 60 The Dionysian Dialectic https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/05/the-dionysian-dialectic https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/05/the-dionysian-dialectic Mon, 01 May 1995 00:00:00 -0400 Euripides was on to something when he loosed an angry Dionysius on his protagonists. For Dionysius—the god who in his carnal vitality insists upon recognition—will not tolerate neglect or exclusion from our definitions of human nature. Indeed, he is the god who ravages all our dreams and systems when we root them in the airy insubstantiality of wish and vanity rather than in nature.

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