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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... desire for perfectibility is frustrated by the poignant realization of the finite nature of human endeavor that fixes the boundaries beyond which a person could not pass if he is to retain his essential humanity . Furthermore , the ...
... desire for perfectibility is frustrated by the poignant realization of the finite nature of human endeavor that fixes the boundaries beyond which a person could not pass if he is to retain his essential humanity . Furthermore , the ...
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... desires . For Leone Ebreo and Bruno , love and desire perpetually construct an ideal of love that aspires to human ... desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re- creations in which every act of love is significant . In ...
... desires . For Leone Ebreo and Bruno , love and desire perpetually construct an ideal of love that aspires to human ... desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re- creations in which every act of love is significant . In ...
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... desire to assert human excellence against the monstrous disorder of the world - as - it - is , and against the gods whose moral duplicity and power recast human beings into tragic victims . In Tartarus , his punishment indicated that he ...
... desire to assert human excellence against the monstrous disorder of the world - as - it - is , and against the gods whose moral duplicity and power recast human beings into tragic victims . In Tartarus , his punishment indicated that he ...
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... desire to transcend the power of the gods by achieving immortality through regeneration . The heroic poet Orpheus was transfigured through divine intervention , but the myth of Sisyphus depicted the conflict between the human aspiration ...
... desire to transcend the power of the gods by achieving immortality through regeneration . The heroic poet Orpheus was transfigured through divine intervention , but the myth of Sisyphus depicted the conflict between the human aspiration ...
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... desires to be of one mind with god . " This desire for human transcendence was not rendered in terms of a return to a " golden age " or undifferentiated union of the human and the divine , or as a mystical union with divinity , or as a ...
... desires to be of one mind with god . " This desire for human transcendence was not rendered in terms of a return to a " golden age " or undifferentiated union of the human and the divine , or as a mystical union with divinity , or as a ...
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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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