The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 עמודים 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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 86
עמוד 8
... ascending and descending forms of justice . IX . Sir Calidore : the endless labor of human perfectibility through courtesy in life and in art . Notes Bibliography Index 193 313 427 544 597 Acknowledgments I WA WANT TO EXPRESS MY ...
... ascending and descending forms of justice . IX . Sir Calidore : the endless labor of human perfectibility through courtesy in life and in art . Notes Bibliography Index 193 313 427 544 597 Acknowledgments I WA WANT TO EXPRESS MY ...
עמוד 14
... ascending and descending labor with his rock - burden in Tartarus symbolizes the eter- nal cycles of infinite potentialities in his quest for perfectibility as a per- petual process of becoming rather than an illusory achievement of a ...
... ascending and descending labor with his rock - burden in Tartarus symbolizes the eter- nal cycles of infinite potentialities in his quest for perfectibility as a per- petual process of becoming rather than an illusory achievement of a ...
עמוד 17
... ascending moral and aesthetic perfectibility and the degree to which his descending obedience to all forms of divine , political , and rhetorical authorities enhance or inhibit those aspirations . The quest for human perfectibility in ...
... ascending moral and aesthetic perfectibility and the degree to which his descending obedience to all forms of divine , political , and rhetorical authorities enhance or inhibit those aspirations . The quest for human perfectibility in ...
עמוד 19
... ascend- ing emotional ecstasy and creative inspiration , believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the ... ascending heroic action engenders a descending and self - destructive hybris or pride in achievement , which for its ...
... ascend- ing emotional ecstasy and creative inspiration , believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the ... ascending heroic action engenders a descending and self - destructive hybris or pride in achievement , which for its ...
עמוד 23
... ascending and descending labors symbolize both his punishment for rebelling against the gods and his reward for maintaining his quest for perfectibility in spite of the overwhelming vicissitudes of life . Necessity has ordained that he ...
... ascending and descending labors symbolize both his punishment for rebelling against the gods and his reward for maintaining his quest for perfectibility in spite of the overwhelming vicissitudes of life . Necessity has ordained that he ...
תוכן
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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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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility <span dir=ltr>Elliott M. Simon</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
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