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. |
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עמוד 14
... 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 tran- scendent state of being . The archetypal ...
... 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 tran- scendent state of being . The archetypal ...
עמוד 23
... burden . Sisyphus provides a paradigm of " process as ritual " in which each indi- vidual cycle of his reengagement with his rock - burden liberates him from his past failures and reenacts his original quest as a new event in the eter ...
... burden . Sisyphus provides a paradigm of " process as ritual " in which each indi- vidual cycle of his reengagement with his rock - burden liberates him from his past failures and reenacts his original quest as a new event in the eter ...
עמוד 27
... burden . In both his ascending aspiration and descending frustration , it is the triumph of his will to reengage his rock - burden and sustain his faith in his potentiality to reach that elusive summit . His idealism transforms the ...
... burden . In both his ascending aspiration and descending frustration , it is the triumph of his will to reengage his rock - burden and sustain his faith in his potentiality to reach that elusive summit . His idealism transforms the ...
עמוד 28
... burden of the world upon his shoulders . Sisyphus must bear the mon- strous weight of human existence in terms of his rock - burden in Tartarus . Three of Merope's sisters were involved in the mysteries of divine seduc- tion ...
... burden of the world upon his shoulders . Sisyphus must bear the mon- strous weight of human existence in terms of his rock - burden in Tartarus . Three of Merope's sisters were involved in the mysteries of divine seduc- tion ...
עמוד 33
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. Sisyphus ' rock - burden symbolizes the mutability of time and is ani- mated with its own magical power . 16 Zeus transformed himself into a rock to escape the wrath of ...
Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon. Sisyphus ' rock - burden symbolizes the mutability of time and is ani- mated with its own magical power . 16 Zeus transformed himself into a rock to escape the wrath of ...
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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