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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... hero and heroic action . II . The Sisyphean hero in medieval romance : Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur . III . The indeterminate perfectibility of the courtier hero : Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano [ The Book of the ...
... hero and heroic action . II . The Sisyphean hero in medieval romance : Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur . III . The indeterminate perfectibility of the courtier hero : Baldassare Castiglione's Il libro del Cortegiano [ The Book of the ...
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... hero . The epic hero is a unique human being who labors to defend the divine and its principles of authority and order in the world through heroic action . However , like Sisy- phus , the hero who aspires to defend the transcendence of ...
... hero . The epic hero is a unique human being who labors to defend the divine and its principles of authority and order in the world through heroic action . However , like Sisy- phus , the hero who aspires to defend the transcendence of ...
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... hero to fashion himself as an artifact embodying the moral and aesthetic idealism of his aristocratic soci- ety is frustrated by his self - dissimulation that continually deconstructs itself . The quintessential Renaissance ...
... hero to fashion himself as an artifact embodying the moral and aesthetic idealism of his aristocratic soci- ety is frustrated by his self - dissimulation that continually deconstructs itself . The quintessential Renaissance ...
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... hero . Euhe- merus of Messina ( c . 300 BCE ) argued that the gods originated as ancient heroes whose extraordinary physical powers and intellectual excellence were elevated INTRODUCTION 23.
... hero . Euhe- merus of Messina ( c . 300 BCE ) argued that the gods originated as ancient heroes whose extraordinary physical powers and intellectual excellence were elevated INTRODUCTION 23.
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... hero.20 Heroes who attack the gods are identified as hybristic Titans and are consigned to suffer their rebellious spirit in Tartarus . Heroes who defend the gods and aspire to the " good death " of the just warrior are rewarded by Zeus ...
... hero.20 Heroes who attack the gods are identified as hybristic Titans and are consigned to suffer their rebellious spirit in Tartarus . Heroes who defend the gods and aspire to the " good death " of the just warrior are rewarded by Zeus ...
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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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