Dionysius in the Agora (HSG 5)

Classical Athens created a cultural singularity by bringing the wild, participatory god Dionysus into the city’s heart through public theater. This ritual technology, it is argued, was the seedbed for both democracy and philosophy, creating the conditions for the Socratic lineage to turn the recursive power of consciousness into the foundation of the Western canon.

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