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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... 10 : 0-8386-4116-4 ( alk . paper ) 1. Perfection . 2. Sisyphus ( Greek mythology ) . I. Title . BD233.S56 2007 128.09 - dc22 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2006032982 To Ella Contents Acknowledgments Introduction : Myth and the ...
... 10 : 0-8386-4116-4 ( alk . paper ) 1. Perfection . 2. Sisyphus ( Greek mythology ) . I. Title . BD233.S56 2007 128.09 - dc22 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2006032982 To Ella Contents Acknowledgments Introduction : Myth and the ...
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... Sisyphus as hero is found in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in which the intention " to fashion a noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline " is rendered as a sequence of indeterminate heroic labors . Although ... MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... Sisyphus as hero is found in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in which the intention " to fashion a noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline " is rendered as a sequence of indeterminate heroic labors . Although ... MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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... Myth expresses the human being's revolt against the monstrousness of ... myths as anthropomorphic representations of the cosmic forces that enhanced ... Sisyphus who attempts to conquer Thanatos and later becomes a participant in ...
... Myth expresses the human being's revolt against the monstrousness of ... myths as anthropomorphic representations of the cosmic forces that enhanced ... Sisyphus who attempts to conquer Thanatos and later becomes a participant in ...
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... myth , coexistence with the divine is based upon an essential interactive ministration of priests , heroes , or shamen who chal- lenge the gods to perfect humanity or at least mitigate the despair of human limitations ... MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... myth , coexistence with the divine is based upon an essential interactive ministration of priests , heroes , or shamen who chal- lenge the gods to perfect humanity or at least mitigate the despair of human limitations ... MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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... discontent to refashion the world in his own image . His iconoclasistic temper imagines society as a mutable process of becoming , and he aspires to assert his own heroic vision of coherence on it 24 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... discontent to refashion the world in his own image . His iconoclasistic temper imagines society as a mutable process of becoming , and he aspires to assert his own heroic vision of coherence on it 24 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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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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