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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... social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT SIGNIFICANCE The myth of Sisyphus is the most poignant illustration of the quest for perfectibility set against the monstrous ...
... social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT SIGNIFICANCE The myth of Sisyphus is the most poignant illustration of the quest for perfectibility set against the monstrous ...
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... social reverence for obedience to all forms of religious and political authorities . Sisyphus ' cyclical labor symbolizes the extent to which his erudition and eloquence work toward his ascending moral and aesthetic perfectibility and ...
... social reverence for obedience to all forms of religious and political authorities . Sisyphus ' cyclical labor symbolizes the extent to which his erudition and eloquence work toward his ascending moral and aesthetic perfectibility and ...
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... social identities . The utopianist attempts to sustain the elusive condition of uni- versality as the perfected condition of the human psyche and the realized wholeness of society . " Sisyphus as utopianist " aspires to the summit of ...
... social identities . The utopianist attempts to sustain the elusive condition of uni- versality as the perfected condition of the human psyche and the realized wholeness of society . " Sisyphus as utopianist " aspires to the summit of ...
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... social perfectibility through martial valor , personal honor , and courage is compromised by the violence and the idealization of death of the war- rior - hero as well as the confusion between fame and infamy , glory and vainglory that ...
... social perfectibility through martial valor , personal honor , and courage is compromised by the violence and the idealization of death of the war- rior - hero as well as the confusion between fame and infamy , glory and vainglory that ...
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... social traditions , and personal inadequacies . Such a balance is not measured by his " valorized achievements , " but by the virtue of his participation in the " eternal process of becoming . " 24 All heroic action and achievements are ...
... social traditions , and personal inadequacies . Such a balance is not measured by his " valorized achievements , " but by the virtue of his participation in the " eternal process of becoming . " 24 All heroic action and achievements are ...
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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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