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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... nature to dis- cipline his will to cope with his ascending rebellion against the mon- strousness of a divinely ordered world and endure the frustration of his descending subordination to the will of the gods . Above all , he is consoled ...
... nature to dis- cipline his will to cope with his ascending rebellion against the mon- strousness of a divinely ordered world and endure the frustration of his descending subordination to the will of the gods . Above all , he is consoled ...
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... nature of human aspirations . Based on the works of Homer , Vir- gil , and Ovid , Thomas Cooper in Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britan- nicae , portrays Sisyphus as an archetypal outlaw rebelling against the social order , whose ...
... nature of human aspirations . Based on the works of Homer , Vir- gil , and Ovid , Thomas Cooper in Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britan- nicae , portrays Sisyphus as an archetypal outlaw rebelling against the social order , whose ...
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... nature and transform its mutable forms into its perfected archetype . Although nature appears to teach all things to human beings , that which nature cannot teach can be revealed by the Holy Spirit through its divine agency of celestial ...
... nature and transform its mutable forms into its perfected archetype . Although nature appears to teach all things to human beings , that which nature cannot teach can be revealed by the Holy Spirit through its divine agency of celestial ...
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... nature of his earthly experience . Petrarch with his self - projections into Laura , Ronsard with his self - glorification through numerous rustic and courtly ladies , and Sidney's Astrophil with his ambivalent love for the fic- tional ...
... nature of his earthly experience . Petrarch with his self - projections into Laura , Ronsard with his self - glorification through numerous rustic and courtly ladies , and Sidney's Astrophil with his ambivalent love for the fic- tional ...
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... nature of Hera , as well as the capricious nature of Demeter , the tenacious violence of Poseidon , and the mental disorder inspired by Pan and Dionysius . In this collage of Greek " creation myths , " Tartarus represents both a ...
... nature of Hera , as well as the capricious nature of Demeter , the tenacious violence of Poseidon , and the mental disorder inspired by Pan and Dionysius . In this collage of Greek " creation myths , " Tartarus represents both a ...
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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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