The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell

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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion

by Joseph Campbell

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A short summation of Campbell's thoughts toward's the end of his life on his long study of comparative mythology. Really an extended essay. Quote : 'Religious intolerance is blasphemy' page 96

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1985

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Reviewing with unprejudiced eye the religious traditions of mankind, one becomes very soon aware of certain mythic motifs that are common to all, though differently understood and developed in the differing traditions: ideas, for example, of a life beyond death, or of malevolent and protective spirits.

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Prologue : Myth and the body -- ch. 1. Cosmology and the mythic imagination -- ch. 2. Metaphor as myth and as religion -- 1. The problem -- 2. Metaphor as fact and fact as metaphor -- 3. Metaphors of psychological transformation -- 4. Threshold figures -- 5. The metaphorical journey -- 6. Metaphorical identification -- 7. The net of gems -- ch. 3. The way of art -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

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A reissued edition--with a new index--of one of the world-famous scholar's most popular books (more than 100,000 copies sold), which delineates his basic understanding of mythology and religion.

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