The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion - Hardcover

Campbell, Joseph

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9780060551520: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion

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ISBN 10: 0060551526 ISBN 13: 9780060551520

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1988

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Campbell, Joseph. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space - Metaphor as Myth and as Religion. First Perennial Library edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1988. 15,5 cm x 23 cm. 155, (1) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to half title. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. [Perennial Library]. Contains among others the following chapters: Prologue: Myth and Body; Cosmology and the Mythic Imagination; Metaphor as Myth and as Religion: The Problem, Metaphor as Fact and Fact as Metaphor, Metaphors as Physical Transformation, Threshold Figures, The Metaphorical Journey, Metaphorical Identification, The Net of Gems; The Way of Art etc.

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"In a time of felt mythlessness, when the culture suffers a crunching literalism in politics, in religion, and in everyday human relationships, Campbell's little book on the metaphoric and mythic quality of life functions as a grand net of gems."
-- David L. Miller, Watson-Ledden professor of religions, Syracuse University

"Campbell, who is known for speaking his mind, pulls no punches here. This book, more than any other, unambiguously delineates his basic understanding of mythology and religion....Inveterate underliners will be tempted to highlight things on virtually every page."
-- "Parabola"

"The wealth and breadth of reference in this small book is truly prodigious...as Campbell now soars like an eagle to a generalization about The Big Bang, now dives like a hawk to a precise description of the color and number of lotus petals in each of the seven centers of the chakra system, rendering both lucid in a single universe of discourse."
-- "Newsday"

In a time of felt mythlessness, when the culture suffers a crunching literalism in politics, in religion, and in everyday human relationships, Campbell s little book on the metaphoric and mythic quality of life functions as a grand net of gems.
David L. Miller, Watson-Ledden professor of religions, Syracuse University
Campbell, who is known for speaking his mind, pulls no punches here. This book, more than any other, unambiguously delineates his basic understanding of mythology and religion....Inveterate underliners will be tempted to highlight things on virtually every page.
Parabola
The wealth and breadth of reference in this small book is truly prodigious...as Campbell now soars like an eagle to a generalization about The Big Bang, now dives like a hawk to a precise description of the color and number of lotus petals in each of the seven centers of the chakra system, rendering both lucid in a single universe of discourse.
Newsday"

Synopsis:

Originally published in 1986, this was Joseph Campbell's last book. It is developed from a series of lectures in which he explores the Space Age, and posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realisation. He demonstrates that metaphor is the language of art and argues that within the psyches of today's artists are the seeds of tomorrow's mythologies.

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