Joseph Campbell

In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued and confused, as it had many others. …

As relações entre o Oriente e Ocidente - como as antigas cosmologias e mitologias foram transformadas e reinterpretadas nos mitos gregos e na Bíblia, bem como no Judaísmo, Cristianismo e Islamismo. Uma sistemática e fascinante comparação entre os temas que subjazem na arte, nos ritos e na literatura ocidental, …

Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for …

A brilliant evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit in conversations that range from modern marriage to virgin births, from saviors to heroes in the Power of Myth--a great summing up of Campbell's works.