New Releases by Joseph Campbell

"Myths, according to Freud''s view, are of the psychological order of dream. Myths, so to say, are public dreams; dreams are private myths. " "There is no one quite like Joseph Campbell. He knows the vast sweep of man''s panoramic past as few men have evern known it." -The Village Voice What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, retuning always to the source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination. Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always followed the certain basic archetypes and are no longer exclusive to a single people, region, or religion. He shows how we must recognize their common denominators and allow this knowledge to be of use in fulfilling human potential everywhere.

This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man''s unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

"El mito es el sueo colectivo y el sueo el mito privado"Contienen todas las culturas un fundamento nico y universal? Qu tienen en comn el Quijote, John Lennon, el Buda, Ulises, el Papa, el rey Arturo y la Guerra de las Galaxias de George Lucas?"Sobreponindose a las ms oscuras pasiones, el hroe simboliza nuestra habilidad para controlar al animal irracional que habita en nosotros." As Joseph Campbell -autor del hroe de las mil caras y Las mscaras de Dios- considera el mito como instrumento fundamental para interpretar la realidad, enriquecer la experiencia vital y comprender los oscuros y atemorizantes abismos de existencia, como semilla de todas las religiones que, en su diversidad, expresan distintas metforas de un mismo prurito de explicar lo inexplicable. Entender el pasado y esclarecer el presente por medio de la mitologa, y ms concretamente de su expresin formal, los ritos, fue el desafo que Campbell persigui con la verdadera pasin durante toda su vida. Este dilogo con el periodista Bill Moyers, que tuvo lugar un par de aos antes de su muerte, sintetiza los principales postulados de su pensamiento y de su obra.

Examines and compares the world''s myths, compiled and arranged by theme, from stories of creation to tales of death and rebirth.

A collection of thirteen lectures, all given near the end of Joseph Campbell''s life, that examine the great sweep of mythological development around the world and across the ages.

Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell''s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."--From publisher description.

This book presents approximately 450 illustrations of mythic art from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, European, and Olmec cultures as a basis for an exploration into the relation of dreams to myth.

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Campbell offers a systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. "The high function of Occidental myth and ritual . . . is to establish a means of relationship--of God to Man and Man to God".--Joseph Campbell.