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 93
עמוד 16
... believed to exist in the heavenly spheres associated with the divine and symbolized by the summit of his mountain . At the same time , he must deal with his body's desire to descend through its natural physical inclinations to its ...
... believed to exist in the heavenly spheres associated with the divine and symbolized by the summit of his mountain . At the same time , he must deal with his body's desire to descend through its natural physical inclinations to its ...
עמוד 17
... believed to exist on earth but unfortunately compromised by the monstrousness of human perversity symbolized by the base of his mountain . Sisyphus as humanist symbolizes the rational and creative faculties of the human will aspiring to ...
... believed to exist on earth but unfortunately compromised by the monstrousness of human perversity symbolized by the base of his mountain . Sisyphus as humanist symbolizes the rational and creative faculties of the human will aspiring to ...
עמוד 19
... believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the beautiful lady , and the descending despair caused by the lover's frustrated desires as he confronts the inconstant nature of his earthly experience . Petrarch with his self ...
... believed to be an emanation of the divine invested in the beautiful lady , and the descending despair caused by the lover's frustrated desires as he confronts the inconstant nature of his earthly experience . Petrarch with his self ...
עמוד 22
... believed to possess a magical efficacy deemed essential to the life of the community . Myths may involve stories about historical events and personages , but the truth of the narrative does not include any possible ver- ification ...
... believed to possess a magical efficacy deemed essential to the life of the community . Myths may involve stories about historical events and personages , but the truth of the narrative does not include any possible ver- ification ...
עמוד 28
... believed to be the founder of Corinth ( Ephyra ) or one of its earliest kings . His principal antagonist was Autolycus , the son of Chione and Hermes / Mercury , the god of magic . Autolycus was a cattle thief who had the magical power ...
... believed to be the founder of Corinth ( Ephyra ) or one of its earliest kings . His principal antagonist was Autolycus , the son of Chione and Hermes / Mercury , the god of magic . Autolycus was a cattle thief who had the magical power ...
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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