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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... suffer their rebellious spirit in Tartarus . Heroes who defend the gods and aspire to the " good death " of the just warrior are rewarded by Zeus and transported to the Island of the Blessed " where for all eternity , they lead a life ...
... suffer their rebellious spirit in Tartarus . Heroes who defend the gods and aspire to the " good death " of the just warrior are rewarded by Zeus and transported to the Island of the Blessed " where for all eternity , they lead a life ...
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... suffer- ing may be imposed upon him . Although he is imprisoned in Tartarus and his ambition is perpetually frustrated by his rock - burden , Sisyphus trans- forms the cyclical process of ascending aspirations and descending frus ...
... suffer- ing may be imposed upon him . Although he is imprisoned in Tartarus and his ambition is perpetually frustrated by his rock - burden , Sisyphus trans- forms the cyclical process of ascending aspirations and descending frus ...
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... suffer endless labor into a perpetual exercise of his free will to aspire to a state of perfectibility in which his rebellion and subordi- nation are united . Sisyphus must internalize the will of Zeus to aspire to a transcendent ...
... suffer endless labor into a perpetual exercise of his free will to aspire to a state of perfectibility in which his rebellion and subordi- nation are united . Sisyphus must internalize the will of Zeus to aspire to a transcendent ...
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... beyond death he is engaged in an eternal process of cyclical labor that revaluates human suffering into per- petual aspirations for human perfectibility . Sisyphus ' rock - burden symbolizes the mutability of time 32 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
... beyond death he is engaged in an eternal process of cyclical labor that revaluates human suffering into per- petual aspirations for human perfectibility . Sisyphus ' rock - burden symbolizes the mutability of time 32 THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS.
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... suffering the defeat of those human aspirations . But if we examine both aspects of his cyclical labor , we see Sisyphus experiencing the greater wholeness of human existence ; whole- ness not as a finished form but as a process that ...
... suffering the defeat of those human aspirations . But if we examine both aspects of his cyclical labor , we see Sisyphus experiencing the greater wholeness of human existence ; whole- ness not as a finished form but as a process that ...
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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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