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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... vision of humanity in harmony with the will of the gods . However , in the rarified atmosphere of unknown islands and imagi- nary city - states , he finds that although such a universal ideology illumi- nates the potentialities of his ...
... vision of humanity in harmony with the will of the gods . However , in the rarified atmosphere of unknown islands and imagi- nary city - states , he finds that although such a universal ideology illumi- nates the potentialities of his ...
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... vision of himself as the embodiment of human excellence , but still inspire his aspirations to reengage his burden . Sisyphus provides a paradigm of " process as ritual " in which each indi- vidual cycle of his reengagement with his ...
... vision of himself as the embodiment of human excellence , but still inspire his aspirations to reengage his burden . Sisyphus provides a paradigm of " process as ritual " in which each indi- vidual cycle of his reengagement with his ...
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... of 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.
... of 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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... vision that witnesses " divine mysteries " and inspires him to master them , he experiences a crucial transformation into a superior individual possessing , rightfully or not , a greater mystical power that is inaccessible to more ...
... vision that witnesses " divine mysteries " and inspires him to master them , he experiences a crucial transformation into a superior individual possessing , rightfully or not , a greater mystical power that is inaccessible to more ...
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... vision cannot be sustained . Like Sisyphus , the Platonic ( and later Neoplatonic ) aspirant was trapped in ascending and descending epistemo- logical labors in which the quest for the perfection of the mind could be conceived as an ...
... vision cannot be sustained . Like Sisyphus , the Platonic ( and later Neoplatonic ) aspirant was trapped in ascending and descending epistemo- logical labors in which the quest for the perfection of the mind could be conceived as an ...
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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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