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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 61
עמוד
... reformer , lover , or hero symbolizes in- herently imperfect human beings engaged in an idealized process of perfectibility through ( Continued on back flap ) The Myth of Sisyphus This One Q1R4-3H4-7C50 Renaissance Theories of.
... reformer , lover , or hero symbolizes in- herently imperfect human beings engaged in an idealized process of perfectibility through ( Continued on back flap ) The Myth of Sisyphus This One Q1R4-3H4-7C50 Renaissance Theories of.
עמוד 16
... imperfect essence of humanity . At the thematic center of the myth of Sisyphus is his endless quest for human dignity caught between the teleological extremes of angelic and bestial identities in a perpetual cyclical process of becoming ...
... imperfect essence of humanity . At the thematic center of the myth of Sisyphus is his endless quest for human dignity caught between the teleological extremes of angelic and bestial identities in a perpetual cyclical process of becoming ...
עמוד 29
... imperfect mortality of human beings and the perfect immor- tality of the divine ; thus it is considered the proper punishment for those human beings who trespass on divine mysteries . Sisyphus escalated his conflict with the gods by ...
... imperfect mortality of human beings and the perfect immor- tality of the divine ; thus it is considered the proper punishment for those human beings who trespass on divine mysteries . Sisyphus escalated his conflict with the gods by ...
עמוד 39
... imperfect body.34 This tension between the upper and lower souls is similar to Sisyphus ' reengagements with the imperfections of his material existence . Sisyphus aspired to become one with his transcendent self at the summit of his ...
... imperfect body.34 This tension between the upper and lower souls is similar to Sisyphus ' reengagements with the imperfections of his material existence . Sisyphus aspired to become one with his transcendent self at the summit of his ...
עמוד 53
... imperfect knowledge of their own nature . They can transcend that imperfect knowledge only by affirming their belief in the sacred ( the divine that exists but cannot be known ) as a " Stoic leap of faith . " 12 Sisyphus aspired to self ...
... imperfect knowledge of their own nature . They can transcend that imperfect knowledge only by affirming their belief in the sacred ( the divine that exists but cannot be known ) as a " Stoic leap of faith . " 12 Sisyphus aspired to self ...
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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