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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... intellectual , a scholar , and a friend . To Richard Kuhta , Betsy Walsh , and the wonderful people at the Folger , I want to express my gratitude for their help , enduring friendship , and kindness . I also want to thank the staff at ...
... intellectual , a scholar , and a friend . To Richard Kuhta , Betsy Walsh , and the wonderful people at the Folger , I want to express my gratitude for their help , enduring friendship , and kindness . I also want to thank the staff at ...
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... intellectual empowerment , moral fortitude , and altruistic ambitions , appear perpetually diminished by our inherent inade- quacies or the external vicissitudes of contrary experiences . Is this per- ceived disappointment an objective ...
... intellectual empowerment , moral fortitude , and altruistic ambitions , appear perpetually diminished by our inherent inade- quacies or the external vicissitudes of contrary experiences . Is this per- ceived disappointment an objective ...
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... intellectual impediments that frustrate a person's true dignity as a worthy participant in the divinely inspired harmonic order of Nature . Petrarch in De ignorantia , Nicholas Cusanus in De docta ignorantia [ On learned ignorance ] ...
... intellectual impediments that frustrate a person's true dignity as a worthy participant in the divinely inspired harmonic order of Nature . Petrarch in De ignorantia , Nicholas Cusanus in De docta ignorantia [ On learned ignorance ] ...
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... intellectual transcendence defines the aspirant lover as one blessed and punished by the divine agencies of the celestial and generative Venus and the perniciousness of Cupid . Sisyphus as lover aspires to a heav- enly love that ...
... intellectual transcendence defines the aspirant lover as one blessed and punished by the divine agencies of the celestial and generative Venus and the perniciousness of Cupid . Sisyphus as lover aspires to a heav- enly love that ...
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... intellectual , and creative inadequacies revealed by their con- frontations with the ambiguous moral qualities and creative skills of their own nature . Throughout the classical , medieval , and Renaissance periods the human aspiration ...
... intellectual , and creative inadequacies revealed by their con- frontations with the ambiguous moral qualities and creative skills of their own nature . Throughout the classical , medieval , and Renaissance periods the human aspiration ...
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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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