Available for download free Joseph Campbell on Myth and Mythology
Joseph Campbell on Myth and Mythology Richard L. Sartore
- Author: Richard L. Sartore
- Date: 01 Dec 2009
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Original Languages: English
- Book Format: Paperback::138 pages, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 0819190810
- ISBN13: 9780819190819
- Filename: joseph-campbell-on-myth-and-mythology.pdf
- Dimension: 135x 216x 10mm::181g
Available for download free Joseph Campbell on Myth and Mythology. MYTHOLOGY The Myth of Joseph Campbell MARY R. LEFKOWITZ On television Joseph Campbell was the embodiment of the ideal academic: gentle, fatherly, informative, reassuring, unworldly, spiritual, and articulate without being incom-prehensible. He was knowledgeable about what we didn't have time (or inclination) to discover for ourselves Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as "other people's religion." But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment - or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. Personally I really liked Joseph Campbell
