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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... ideal of pleasure and the latter aspires to an altruistic Stoic ideal of reason and temperance . Sisyphus as humanist must deal with the burden of his soul's desire to ascend by its natural intellectual inclinations to its perfected ...
... ideal of pleasure and the latter aspires to an altruistic Stoic ideal of reason and temperance . Sisyphus as humanist must deal with the burden of his soul's desire to ascend by its natural intellectual inclinations to its perfected ...
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... ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility while at the same time decon- structs that ideal with further amplifications . Love inspires the male and female lover to desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re ...
... ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility while at the same time decon- structs that ideal with further amplifications . Love inspires the male and female lover to desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re ...
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... ideal of social harmony . However , in the exalted arena of a court culture , the courtier's aspiration for an aesthetic valuation of life exposes the inadequacies of its artificial modes of behavior as it contends with the burden of ...
... ideal of social harmony . However , in the exalted arena of a court culture , the courtier's aspiration for an aesthetic valuation of life exposes the inadequacies of its artificial modes of behavior as it contends with the burden of ...
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... ideal self not as the triumph of his will over the counter - will of the gods , but as a synthesis of these two contending wills within the cycles of his labor . Aspiration and frustration nurture each other in a laborous process of ...
... ideal self not as the triumph of his will over the counter - will of the gods , but as a synthesis of these two contending wills within the cycles of his labor . Aspiration and frustration nurture each other in a laborous process of ...
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... ideal order and harmony of the universe accessible through a mystical contemplation through which the soul placed itself in a perfected communion with that order.32 For Pythago- ras , Sisyphus ' mystical faith in the existence of the ...
... ideal order and harmony of the universe accessible through a mystical contemplation through which the soul placed itself in a perfected communion with that order.32 For Pythago- ras , Sisyphus ' mystical faith in the existence of the ...
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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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