The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility
Book Details
Author(s)
Elliott M. Simon
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN / ASIN
1611473489
ISBN-13
9781611473483
Availability
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Sales Rank
#4,783,904
Category
Philosophy
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement. It is a poignant reflection of idealized aspirations and actual limitations of the human condition. It is also a prominent framing text for the interpretation of classical and patristic literature, medieval allegorical and alchemical interpretations of mythology, and humanist philosophical, educational, and utopian ideologies, and erotic and heroic theories of human perfectibility. Sisyphus defines the modalities of human transcendence in classical and Christian terms; he is the personification of the unrequited lover; and he is the embodiment of the aspirant renaissance hero.
