The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987 (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
by Joseph Campbell
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In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life. This second volume of Campbell's essays (following The Flight of the Wild Gander) brings together his uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height of Campbell's career-and showcasing the show more lively intelligence that made him the twentieth century's premier writer on mythology-these essays investigate the profound links between myth, the individual, and societies ancient and contemporary. Covering diverse terrain ranging from psychology to the occult, from Thomas Mann to the Grateful Dead, from Goddess spirituality to Freud and Jung, these playful and erudite writings reveal the threads of myth woven deeply into the fabric of our culture and our lives. show lessTags
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As with all of Campbell's work, this material was massaged and critiqued by students and peers alike. All his polished material went through this process, usually beginning as a syllabus in one of his courses at Sarah Lawrence. this collection of lectures were sufficiently raw and difficult to classify into his other ideas to warrant independent publication, most probably only of interest to us devotees.
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Joseph Campbell was born in White Plains, New York on March 26, 1904. He received a B.A. in English literature in 1925 and an M.A. in Medieval literature in 1927 from Columbia University. He was awarded a Proudfit Traveling Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Paris. After he had received and rejected an offer to teach at his show more high school alma mater, his Fellowship was renewed, and he traveled to Germany to resume his studies at the University of Munich. During the year he was housemaster of Canterbury School, he sold his first short story, Strictly Platonic, to Liberty magazine. In 1934, he accepted a position in the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he would retain until retiring in 1972. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Mythic Image, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers. During the 1940s and 1950s, he collaborated with Swami Nikhilananda on translations of the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. He received several awards including National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature and the 1985 National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature. He died after a brief struggle with cancer on October 30, 1987. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- In teaching women one is confronted with different sets of academic demands from those of men.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The revelation of art is not of ethics or a judgment—not even of humanity as one generally thinks of it—but a marveling recognition of the radiant Form of forms that shines through all things; and as our own great American master, Nathaniel Hawthorne, has said in a little story called Fancy's Show Box (telling of what dreams and fancies show of the innermost truth of each of us): "Man shall not disclaim his brotherhood even with the guiltiest."
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 201.3 — Religion The Bible & Christianity Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology Mythology and mythological foundations
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- BL315 .C269 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism The myth. Comparative mythology
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