The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1990, Paperback, Reprint) 
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1990, Paperback, Reprint)

 
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (1990, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0691017840
ISBN-13: 9780691017846
Product ID: EPID398725
Description: In his most famous work, Joseph Campbell, the great scholar of mythology, posits two revolutionary notions: there are mythical patterns found in the literature of every known historical culture, and these patterns are the basis of every ...
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Synopsis
In his most famous work, Joseph Campbell, the great scholar of mythology, posits two revolutionary notions: there are mythical patterns found in the literature of every known historical culture, and these patterns are the basis of every story that gets told. However, Campbell argues that it is beneficial that every story is a re-telling of a previous one, and he focuses on two concepts that can be discovered in most narratives. The Hero's Journey is an eight-step process of growth and change that everyone from Greek gods to gas station workers experience in their lives; the Cosmogonic Cycle analyzes the interrelationship of creation and destruction myths. In the process, Campbell relates fantastic stories from a variety of time periods and cultural origins. This influential work inspired George Lucas to create STAR WARS, and has been a favorite of scholars and lay readers alike since its first publication in 1949.

Details
Publication Date:1990-12-01
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:8.5 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:21.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Despite their infinite variety of incident, setting, and costume, the myths of the world offer only a limited number of responses to the riddle of life. In this best-selling volume, Joseph Campbell presents the composite hero. Through Campbell's eyes, we see Apollo, the Frog King of the fairy tale, Wotan, the Buddha, and numerous other protagonists of folklore and religion enacting simultaneously the various phases of their common story. Campbell begins his interpretation of these timeless symbols by examining their relationship to those rediscovered in dreams by depth psychology. The psychological view is then compared with the words of such spiritual leaders as Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-tse, and the "Old Men" of the Australian tribes. From behind a thousand faces, the single hero emerges, archetype of all myth.

In this 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 psychological view is then compared with the words of such spiritual leaders as Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Lao-tse, and the 'Old Men' of Australian tribes. From behind a thousand faces the single hero emerges, archetype of all myth.

Industry Reviews
"According to Joseph Campbell, there is only one story in the world, retold in many guises....[he] strips away the masks and shows the Hero to be a cultural code: the universal algorithm for transcending mundane consciousness and plugging into the main starry dynamo of the Mind."
Millennium Whole Earth Catalog - Howard L. Rheingold

"This is no dry product of academe, but a work of love....[A] condensed intellectual odyssey....Enhancing the perception of all stories."
Gottlieb

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