The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959 - 1987 (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Hardcover

Joseph Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577315944 ISBN 13: 9781577315940

Publisher: New World Library, 2008

Synopsis

This volume brings together Campbell's uncollected writings from 1959 to 1987. Written at the height of his career, they investigate the profound links among myth, the individual, and societies ancient and modern. He covers terrain ranging from psychology to the occult, Thomas Mann to the Grateful Dead.

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The Mythic Dimension These 12 eclectic essays explore the topic for which Campbell was best known: myth and its fascinating context within the human imagination in the arts, literature, and culture, as well as in everyday life. Full description

Review:

0;No one in our century 2; not Freud, not Thomas Mann, not Levi-Strauss 2; has so brought the mythical sense of the world and its eternal figures back into our everyday consciousness.1; 2; James Hillman
0;Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.1; 2; Newsweek
0;In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell.1; 2; Commentary

"No one in our century -- not Freud, not Thomas Mann, not Levi-Strauss -- has so brought the mythical sense of the world and its eternal figures back into our everyday consciousness." -- James Hillman

"Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture." -- Newsweek"In our generation the mythographer who has had the fullest command of the huge scholarly literature, the analytic ability, the lucid prose, and the needed staying power has been Joseph Campbell." -- Commentary

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1577315944
• ISBN 13: 9781577315940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352