The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 էջ The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a perpetual process of becoming over the impossibility of absolute achievement. In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility. This Sisyphean archetype is a principal theme in renaissance theories of astral magic in the works of Pico, Ficino, Reuchlin, Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Dee. Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ascham, and in utopian thought from More to Bacon. Sisyphus illuminates the sacred mysteries of life in the works of Philo Judaeus, Plato, Nicholas Cusanus, and Ficino; the spiritual and sensual contraries of love in the dialogues of Leone Ebreo, Bembo, and Bruno; and the tribulations of the unrequited lover in the works of Petrarch, Ronsard, and Sidney. |
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... Sisyphean lover . V. Francesco Petrarch's erotic and spiritual lover in Il Canzoniere . VI . Pierre de Ronsard's perfectibility of sensual love in Les Amours de Cassandre and Sonets pour Hélène . VII . Sir Philip Sidney and the ...
... Sisyphean lover . V. Francesco Petrarch's erotic and spiritual lover in Il Canzoniere . VI . Pierre de Ronsard's perfectibility of sensual love in Les Amours de Cassandre and Sonets pour Hélène . VII . Sir Philip Sidney and the ...
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... Sisyphean archetype that idealizes the process of loving over the absolute achievement of the lover's desires . For Leone Ebreo and Bruno , love and desire perpetually construct an ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility ...
... Sisyphean archetype that idealizes the process of loving over the absolute achievement of the lover's desires . For Leone Ebreo and Bruno , love and desire perpetually construct an ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility ...
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... Sisyphean cycles of ascend- ing emotional ecstasy and creative inspiration , believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the beautiful lady , and the descending despair caused by the lover's frustrated desires as he confronts ...
... Sisyphean cycles of ascend- ing emotional ecstasy and creative inspiration , believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the beautiful lady , and the descending despair caused by the lover's frustrated desires as he confronts ...
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... Sisyphean process of perfectibility through " endless work " without the consolation of being able to sustain their inde- terminate achievements . What is it in the nature of the myth of Sisyphus that makes it such a ver- satile ...
... Sisyphean process of perfectibility through " endless work " without the consolation of being able to sustain their inde- terminate achievements . What is it in the nature of the myth of Sisyphus that makes it such a ver- satile ...
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... condition . He must accept his rock - burden " like a man . " By doing so , Job became a participant in the Sisyphean experience of confronting the frustration of his achievements while maintaining the 36 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... condition . He must accept his rock - burden " like a man . " By doing so , Job became a participant in the Sisyphean experience of confronting the frustration of his achievements while maintaining the 36 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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The Patristic Sisyphus | 67 |
Sisyphus in Medieval and Renaissance Mythography | 86 |
Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
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