The Mythic Dimension, Joseph Campbell
The Mythic Dimension, Joseph Campbell
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The Mythic Dimension
Selected Essays 1959-1987

Author: Joseph Campbell

Narrator: Braden Wright

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/10/2018

Synopsis

This work 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 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.

About Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the four-volume The Masks of God, and The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers), rank among the classics in mythology and literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tami on April 15, 2008

If you have any sort of interest in mythology, then you have heard of Joseph Campbell. His works such as The Hero's Journey and Myths of Light are required reading for university studies. His presentation of the cycle of the hero is absolutely legendary. He is one of my absolute favorite authors. Wh......more

Goodreads review by David on December 06, 2010

Finally! It has been three years since a [new] release of Joe's works. What's the holdup? Of course, this was my second reading of these essays and I am very fond of this collection. . . had to pack it up -- we're moving! Picked it up again on February 10, 2009. --From A Reader's Journal, by d r melb......more

Goodreads review by Mark on June 06, 2020

This book found me in a charity bookshop some months ago. I was deleighted because I'd recently become aware of Joseph Campbell in the context of background to some writing I have been engaged in. The book was in excellent condition but a cursory glance at the first few pages seemed disappointing an......more

Goodreads review by Mike on December 27, 2011

When a religion is demythologized, when believers see a historical figure rather than a symbol, that’s when a religion ceases to be viable, closing minds instead of opening them. Campbell’s essays are all about remythologizing religion, about recognizing God as “a metaphor for that which transcends......more

Goodreads review by Matt on April 02, 2013

A collection of Campbell essays, probably only for diehard fans of his, which I obviously am.......more

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