The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Hardcover

Campbell, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567311202 ISBN 13: 9781567311204

Publisher: Fine Communications,US, 1999

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A brilliant examination, through ancient hero myths, of man s eternal struggle for identity. --Time

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Despite their infinite variety of incident, setting, and number costume, the myths of the world offer only a limited number of responses to the riddle of life.

In this fascinating and influential book, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Apollo, the Frog King of the fairy tale, Wotan, the Buddha., and numerous other protagonists of folklore and religion enact simultaneously the various phases of their common story.

The relationship of their timeless symbols to those discovered in dream by contemporary depth psychology is taken as a starting point for interpretation. The psychological view is then compared with the words of such spiritual leaders as Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-tse, and the 'Old Man' of the Australian tribes. From behind a thousand faces the single hero looks out, archetype of all human myth.

"Campbell's words carry extraordinary weight, not only among scholars but a wide range of other people who find his search down mythical pathways relevant to their lives today."
TIME

About this edition

• Publisher: Fine Communications,US
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567311202
• ISBN 13: 9781567311204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416