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. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 92–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ
... achieve pari- ty with the gods . For the Early Church Fa- thers , the Patristic Sisyphus must maintain his faith in God despite his perpetual back- sliding into sin . Although human perfecti- bility , identified as salvation , is ...
... achieve pari- ty with the gods . For the Early Church Fa- thers , the Patristic Sisyphus must maintain his faith in God despite his perpetual back- sliding into sin . Although human perfecti- bility , identified as salvation , is ...
Էջ 13
... achieve , or is it a subjective realization that the degree to which human excellence can be manifest in the world fails to sat- isfy our aspirations ? The common element in life's disappointments is that the measure of human excellence ...
... achieve , or is it a subjective realization that the degree to which human excellence can be manifest in the world fails to sat- isfy our aspirations ? The common element in life's disappointments is that the measure of human excellence ...
Էջ 19
... achieve a perfect wholeness , which she perpetually denies them . They are also frustrated by their moral , intellectual , and creative inadequacies revealed by their con- frontations with the ambiguous moral qualities and creative ...
... achieve a perfect wholeness , which she perpetually denies them . They are also frustrated by their moral , intellectual , and creative inadequacies revealed by their con- frontations with the ambiguous moral qualities and creative ...
Էջ 33
... achieve his transcendent excellence and reach the summit . The mountain is more than a location for Sisyphus ' confrontation with divine powers . 18 The journey up the mountain refigures heroic human labor as a complex and interwoven ...
... achieve his transcendent excellence and reach the summit . The mountain is more than a location for Sisyphus ' confrontation with divine powers . 18 The journey up the mountain refigures heroic human labor as a complex and interwoven ...
Էջ 36
... achieve a perfect moral life nor can they demand that God behave morally . God's defense is based on his overwhelming creative power , and does not address the question of why the righteous suffer . Like Sisyphus , Job realizes that his ...
... achieve a perfect moral life nor can they demand that God behave morally . God's defense is based on his overwhelming creative power , and does not address the question of why the righteous suffer . Like Sisyphus , Job realizes that his ...
Բովանդակություն
27 | |
50 | |
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 |
597 | |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
achieve actual Aeschylus appears archetypal argues ascending aspirations assertion attempt attributes authority beauty become believed beloved body Books Cambridge Chicago Christian created creative cyclical death descending desire divine earthly edited English Erasmus eternal evil excellence existence experience expression faith fall forms frustrated gods grace heart hero heroic human being's human perfectibility idea ideal identified imagination imperfect inspired intellectual interpretation John justice Knight knowledge labor language Laura laws living London lover magic means mind moral mysteries myth myth of Sisyphus nature never Oxford perfectibility perpetual person Petrarch Philip philosophy physical poem poet Poetry Princeton punishment Queene quest rational reason Reformation Renaissance reveal rhetorical rock-burden sensual Sidney Sisyphean Sisyphus social society soul Spenser spiritual Studies summit symbolizes things Thomas thought tion transcendent transformed Translated true truth ultimate University Press Utopia virtue vision whole wisdom York Zeus