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 85
עמוד 4
... -4116-4 ( alk . paper ) 1. Perfection . 2. Sisyphus ( Greek mythology ) . I. Title . BD233.S56 2007 128.09 - dc22 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2006032982 To Ella Contents Acknowledgments Introduction : Myth and the Quest.
... -4116-4 ( alk . paper ) 1. Perfection . 2. Sisyphus ( Greek mythology ) . I. Title . BD233.S56 2007 128.09 - dc22 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2006032982 To Ella Contents Acknowledgments Introduction : Myth and the Quest.
עמוד 7
... Quest for Human Excellence . 1. Sisyphus : from Myth to Archetype . The myth of Sisyphus and the archetypal idealization of process over achievement . 13 93 27 2. The Stoic Sisyphus . 50 The Sisyphean archetype and quest for moral ...
... Quest for Human Excellence . 1. Sisyphus : from Myth to Archetype . The myth of Sisyphus and the archetypal idealization of process over achievement . 13 93 27 2. The Stoic Sisyphus . 50 The Sisyphean archetype and quest for moral ...
עמוד 13
... quest for human perfectibility must idealize the process through which human beings aspire to a transcendent individual and social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT ...
... quest for human perfectibility must idealize the process through which human beings aspire to a transcendent individual and social excellence without the consolation of achievement . THE LIFELONG QUEST TO ESTABLISH A TRANSCENDENT ...
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... quest for his union with the divine , the Good , and the Beautiful . " Sisyphus as lover " aspires to a love of God that could induct him into the mystery of Eros as a communion between heavenly and earthly beings . In Plato's Phaedrus ...
... quest for his union with the divine , the Good , and the Beautiful . " Sisyphus as lover " aspires to a love of God that could induct him into the mystery of Eros as a communion between heavenly and earthly beings . In Plato's Phaedrus ...
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... quest for Gloriana is never resolved . Both as warrior - heroes in the romance and allegorical symbols of holiness , temperance , chaste love , justice , and courtesy , Spenser's Red Crosse Knight , Sir Guyon , Britomart , Sir Artegall ...
... quest for Gloriana is never resolved . Both as warrior - heroes in the romance and allegorical symbols of holiness , temperance , chaste love , justice , and courtesy , Spenser's Red Crosse Knight , Sir Guyon , Britomart , Sir Artegall ...
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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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