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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... existence . Giordano Bruno in De gli eroici furori [ The Heroic Frenzies ] unites Eros and the aspirant heroic lover into a titanic cre- ative power expressed in terms of the Sisyphean archetype that idealizes the process of loving over ...
... existence . Giordano Bruno in De gli eroici furori [ The Heroic Frenzies ] unites Eros and the aspirant heroic lover into a titanic cre- ative power expressed in terms of the Sisyphean archetype that idealizes the process of loving over ...
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... existence , but it also disengages him from historical conditions and projects him towards a transcendent , universal , and ineffable experience . Early human beings perceived life in terms of the harsh survival in a capricious natural ...
... existence , but it also disengages him from historical conditions and projects him towards a transcendent , universal , and ineffable experience . Early human beings perceived life in terms of the harsh survival in a capricious natural ...
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... existence as - it - is in terms of what - it - must - be . Each cycle symbolizes the rule of Necessity balancing the tension between primordial order and coherence against primordial chaos and capriciousness , which are translated into ...
... existence as - it - is in terms of what - it - must - be . Each cycle symbolizes the rule of Necessity balancing the tension between primordial order and coherence against primordial chaos and capriciousness , which are translated into ...
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... existence undif- ferentiated from the divine , or by assuming that one has been given domin- ion over the earth , one may assert by his own volition a privileged place in heaven . It may also be based on the progressive valuation of ...
... existence undif- ferentiated from the divine , or by assuming that one has been given domin- ion over the earth , one may assert by his own volition a privileged place in heaven . It may also be based on the progressive valuation of ...
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... existence in terms of his rock - burden in Tartarus . Three of Merope's sisters were involved in the mysteries of divine seduc- tion / procreation with Zeus , two with Poseidon , and one with Ares , and they were rewarded by being ...
... existence in terms of his rock - burden in Tartarus . Three of Merope's sisters were involved in the mysteries of divine seduc- tion / procreation with Zeus , two with Poseidon , and one with Ares , and they were rewarded by being ...
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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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