The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 Seiten 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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... ideal of pleasure and the latter aspires to an altruistic Stoic ideal of reason and temperance . Sisyphus as humanist must deal with the burden of his soul's desire to ascend by its natural intellectual inclinations to its perfected ...
... ideal of pleasure and the latter aspires to an altruistic Stoic ideal of reason and temperance . Sisyphus as humanist must deal with the burden of his soul's desire to ascend by its natural intellectual inclinations to its perfected ...
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... ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility while at the same time decon- structs that ideal with further amplifications . Love inspires the male and female lover to desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re ...
... ideal of love that aspires to human perfectibility while at the same time decon- structs that ideal with further amplifications . Love inspires the male and female lover to desire the beautiful other in a perpetual process of re ...
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... ideal of social harmony . However , in the exalted arena of a court culture , the courtier's aspiration for an aesthetic valuation of life exposes the inadequacies of its artificial modes of behavior as it contends with the burden of ...
... ideal of social harmony . However , in the exalted arena of a court culture , the courtier's aspiration for an aesthetic valuation of life exposes the inadequacies of its artificial modes of behavior as it contends with the burden of ...
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... ideal self not as the triumph of his will over the counter - will of the gods , but as a synthesis of these two contending wills within the cycles of his labor . Aspiration and frustration nurture each other in a laborous process of ...
... ideal self not as the triumph of his will over the counter - will of the gods , but as a synthesis of these two contending wills within the cycles of his labor . Aspiration and frustration nurture each other in a laborous process of ...
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... ideal order and harmony of the universe accessible through a mystical contemplation through which the soul placed itself in a perfected communion with that order.32 For Pythago- ras , Sisyphus ' mystical faith in the existence of the ...
... ideal order and harmony of the universe accessible through a mystical contemplation through which the soul placed itself in a perfected communion with that order.32 For Pythago- ras , Sisyphus ' mystical faith in the existence of the ...
Inhalt
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Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
Index | 597 |
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The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility Elliott M. Simon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
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Seite 316 - Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Seite 316 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin : but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Seite 527 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Seite 525 - Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Seite 525 - Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: (for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Seite 304 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Seite 306 - Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess ? — Do they call "virtue
Seite 95 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 524 - O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good...