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The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) Paperback – Illustrated, March 11, 2014
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- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNew World Library
- Publication dateMarch 11, 2014
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101608681890
- ISBN-13978-1608681891
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| The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell | Traces the evolution of the Feminine Divine from one Great Goddess to many. | Outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation. | Shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss. | Campbell’s writings on dance and art. | A wide-ranging collection of insights from Joseph Campbell |
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Richard Adams, author of Watership Down
We don’t have enough personal history regarding Joseph Campbell, so [this] book fills a real need.”
Michael Murphy, cofounder of the Esalen Institute
Blissful! Illuminating! The voice of the master storyteller himself...An outstanding introduction to the great teacher and personalizer of our myths and muses.”
Noel Riley Fitch, author of Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
These stories reveal how [Campbell’s] sense of the oneness of mythology began and grew over the course of his long and event-filled life journey. As we read them, we experience the warm human presence of a man who spent his life learning from others as well as teaching. Recommended.”
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About the Author
Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, lecturer and travel leader, storyteller and TV host. He has written and co-written numerous books on religion, travel, and mythology, including The Art of Pilgrimage and Once and Future Myths. He lives in San Francisco.
Stuart L. Brown was the executive producer of (and driving force behind) the popular documentary film The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell. He lives in Northern California.
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- Publisher : New World Library; Third edition (March 11, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608681890
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608681891
- Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7 in Customs & Traditions Social Sciences
- #11 in Mysticism (Books)
- #24 in Folklore & Mythology Studies
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Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. He was born in New York City in 1904, and from early childhood he became interested in mythology. He loved to read books about American Indian cultures, and frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. Campbell was educated at Columbia University, where he specialized in medieval literature, and continued his studies at universities in Paris and Munich. While abroad he was influenced by the art of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, the novels of James Joyce and Thomas Mann, and the psychological studies of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. These encounters led to Campbell's theory that all myths and epics are linked in the human psyche, and that they are cultural manifestations of the universal need to explain social, cosmological, and spiritual realities.
After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, and then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 40s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He also edited works by the German scholar Heinrich Zimmer on Indian art, myths, and philosophy. In 1944, with Henry Morton Robinson, Campbell published A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. His first original work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, came out in 1949 and was immediately well received; in time, it became acclaimed as a classic. In this study of the "myth of the hero," Campbell asserted that there is a single pattern of heroic journey and that all cultures share this essential pattern in their various heroic myths. In his book he also outlined the basic conditions, stages, and results of the archetypal hero's journey.
Throughout his life, he traveled extensively and wrote prolifically, authoring many books, including the four-volume series The Masks of God, Myths to Live By, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space and The Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Joseph Campbell died in 1987. In 1988, a series of television interviews with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth, introduced Campbell's views to millions of people.
For more on Joseph Campbell and his work, visit the web site of Joseph Campbell Foundation at JCF.org.
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and you have powerful guides. Joe Campbell is like an inspired guide or Shaman narrating you as you reflect on the inspirational motifs of History. Dr. Jung said that at least 2/3's of his patients past the age of forty suffered from a sense of meaninglessness.
"God is not a Myth, Myth is a Revelation of the Divine Nature to Man " Dr. Carl Jung
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Boken handlar kort om hur Campbell utvecklats till det geni han var. Diskussionerna som utgör merparten av boken omfattar även andra kända människor.
Jag hoppades på att den skulle vara mycket mer ingående på sina håll. Just nu läser andra av hans verk och jag upplever att The Hero's Journey var oerhört ledigt skriven i förhållande till dem.
Läs boken om du har ett intresse för Campbell; om inte har han skrivit mycket mer givande verk.






