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 58
עמוד 23
... follow his own ideal of the world - that - could - be in terms of the triumph of the human will caught in a perpetual state of becoming , and has made labor the essential attribute of human existence for which neither achievement nor ...
... follow his own ideal of the world - that - could - be in terms of the triumph of the human will caught in a perpetual state of becoming , and has made labor the essential attribute of human existence for which neither achievement nor ...
עמוד 27
... follow the rock down to the bottom of the mountain , and at this lowest stage of his quest he experiences the highest stage of his heroic development ; he reengages the rock - burden and thereby substantiates his faith in the eternal ...
... follow the rock down to the bottom of the mountain , and at this lowest stage of his quest he experiences the highest stage of his heroic development ; he reengages the rock - burden and thereby substantiates his faith in the eternal ...
עמוד 35
... follows human generations ad infinitum . This universal evil in human nature was attributed to the human aspiration to break down the distinction between human excellence and divine perfection , which justified the anger of the gods who ...
... follows human generations ad infinitum . This universal evil in human nature was attributed to the human aspiration to break down the distinction between human excellence and divine perfection , which justified the anger of the gods who ...
עמוד 45
... follow Ino and rebelled against the cruelty of the goddess . It was also thwarted by Aphrodite and Poseidon , who transform Ino's death in the sea into a symbolic purification , and she and Meliceites were rein- carnated into the ...
... follow Ino and rebelled against the cruelty of the goddess . It was also thwarted by Aphrodite and Poseidon , who transform Ino's death in the sea into a symbolic purification , and she and Meliceites were rein- carnated into the ...
עמוד 53
... follow without hesitation ; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to , I shall follow no less surely . " 8 Ideally the gods , Fate , and human beings will be in harmony , but the same result will occur even if they opposed each ...
... follow without hesitation ; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to , I shall follow no less surely . " 8 Ideally the gods , Fate , and human beings will be in harmony , but the same result will occur even if they opposed each ...
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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