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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... perfectibility through love , the Sisyphean lover must be engaged in the heroic process of transforming earthly love into a transcendent moral and spiritual condition by approximations , which will be frustrated when 18 THE MYTH OF ...
... perfectibility through love , the Sisyphean lover must be engaged in the heroic process of transforming earthly love into a transcendent moral and spiritual condition by approximations , which will be frustrated when 18 THE MYTH OF ...
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... transformed into constellations . Merope was denied inclusion in the constellation because she married a mortal human being . Whereas the marriage of human beings implies a sanctified union of equals , the seductions of Zeus appear as ...
... transformed into constellations . Merope was denied inclusion in the constellation because she married a mortal human being . Whereas the marriage of human beings implies a sanctified union of equals , the seductions of Zeus appear as ...
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... transforming himself into a large black rock.H Although he satisfied the angry river god and brought great benefit to his fellow Corinthians , Sisyphus revealed divine mysteries , and Zeus ordered Thanatos to bring Sisyphus into the ...
... transforming himself into a large black rock.H Although he satisfied the angry river god and brought great benefit to his fellow Corinthians , Sisyphus revealed divine mysteries , and Zeus ordered Thanatos to bring Sisyphus into the ...
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... transformed himself into a rock to escape the wrath of Aesopus , and Sisyphus must struggle with this ani- mated materialization of the deity that rolls back down the mountain of its own volition to thwart his aspirations . The rock may ...
... transformed himself into a rock to escape the wrath of Aesopus , and Sisyphus must struggle with this ani- mated materialization of the deity that rolls back down the mountain of its own volition to thwart his aspirations . The rock may ...
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... transforming human existence into an eternal process of becoming . Does Sisyphus ' " regeneration ritual " exemplify a moral reformation of the natural order ? Sisyphus was accused of being " the most wicked of all humans , " but he was ...
... transforming human existence into an eternal process of becoming . Does Sisyphus ' " regeneration ritual " exemplify a moral reformation of the natural order ? Sisyphus was accused of being " the most wicked of all humans , " but he was ...
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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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