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 25
... greater mystical power that is inaccessible to more literal - minded human beings.28 As he struggles against the pow- ers that shape the world - as - it - is , he is exalted by his subjective valuation of his labor , which proves that ...
... greater mystical power that is inaccessible to more literal - minded human beings.28 As he struggles against the pow- ers that shape the world - as - it - is , he is exalted by his subjective valuation of his labor , which proves that ...
עמוד 28
... greater political order . Tyro bore Sisyphus two children , but when she discovered that he made love to her only to revenge himself on his brother , she killed the children . Sisyphus accused Salmoneus of both incest and murder , and ...
... greater political order . Tyro bore Sisyphus two children , but when she discovered that he made love to her only to revenge himself on his brother , she killed the children . Sisyphus accused Salmoneus of both incest and murder , and ...
עמוד 33
... greater wholeness of human existence ; whole- ness not as a finished form but as a process that holds together the dynamic tensions of all contrary powers . All trials and indignities , successes and fail- ures , aspirations and ...
... greater wholeness of human existence ; whole- ness not as a finished form but as a process that holds together the dynamic tensions of all contrary powers . All trials and indignities , successes and fail- ures , aspirations and ...
עמוד 34
... greater than himself in order to become greater and such " natural ambi- tion " could be projected on the gods . Herodotus ' Artabanus reminds Xerxes ( when the latter was contemplating the invasion of Greece ) : You see how the god ...
... greater than himself in order to become greater and such " natural ambi- tion " could be projected on the gods . Herodotus ' Artabanus reminds Xerxes ( when the latter was contemplating the invasion of Greece ) : You see how the god ...
עמוד 35
... greater excellence , but punished them for their hybris . They incited quarrels between men that resulted in brave men being killed . They enjoyed human triumphs and happiness as well as ultimate failures and despair . The gods punished ...
... greater excellence , but punished them for their hybris . They incited quarrels between men that resulted in brave men being killed . They enjoyed human triumphs and happiness as well as ultimate failures and despair . The gods punished ...
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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