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The myth of Sisyphus : renaissance theories of human perfectibility

The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a 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.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, ©2007
614 p. ; 25 cm
9780838641163, 0838641164
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