From métron to ecstasy: wine, hospitality, and the collective body in western tradition
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wine, hospitality, ,spirituality, sharing, collective bodyAbstract
This essay investigates the historical, symbolic, and spiritual meanings of wine in the Western tradition, based on a critical approach grounded in bibliographic review and conceptual analysis. The trajectory encompasses the myth of Dionysus, Greek sympósia, medieval Christian liturgy, and popular devotional practices, with emphasis on experiences of commensality, hospitality, and spirituality in which wine acts as an ambiguous substance — a mediator between pleasure and norm, ritual and care, excess and measure. The concept of the collective body is proposed as an analytical key to understanding wine’s role in mediating sensitive, spiritual, and social bonds, in contrast to contemporary biomedical discourses that tend to medicalize affect and domesticate ritual. By reclaiming wine’s relational dimension, this work repositions it as an operator of hospitality and memory, capable of evoking alternative forms of living together and resisting the normative logics of modern health discourse.
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