This book explores the relationships between society, culture, Nature, and individuals in Ancient Greece. As shown throughout the work, society and culture of Ancient Greece are embedded in Nature and indebted to it, but they place at their heart a human logos full of meaning. This meaning, however, is inextricably intertwined with meaninglessness, for it is marked by uncertainty, doubt, contradiction, paradox, ambivalence, and, in short, by a tragic and dialectical way of thinking that oscillates between chaos and cosmos. As if society and culture were located on the edge of everyday life, between the real world—dark chaos—and the ideal—perfect order—as if the former were intolerable and the latter unattainable; ultimately, as if both were children of the abyss, yet in a ceaseless struggle against it.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
This history documents the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Europe. It compares their survival under different political systems, from dictatorships to modern Russia, where a renewed ban has returned Soviet-era conditions of repression.
