Publication
Imprint: New York : A. van der Marck Editions, c1986. Responsibility: Joseph Campbell. OCLC Number: 13008516. Physical: Text : 1 volume : 155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Features: Includes bibliography.
Call number
Myth / Campb
ISBN
0912383097 / 9780912383095
Original publication date
1986
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CSS Library Notes
Description: 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."--Publisher description.
Table of Contents: Prologue : Myth and the body --
ch. 1. Cosmology and the mythic imagination --
ch. 2. Metaphor as myth and as religion --
1. The problem --
2. Metaphor as fact and fact as metaphor --
3. Metaphors of psychological transformation --
4. Threshold figures --
5. The metaphorical journey --
6. Metaphorical identification --
7. The net of gems --
ch. 3. The way of art --
Notes --
Acknowledgments.
FY1989 /
Table of Contents: Prologue : Myth and the body --
ch. 1. Cosmology and the mythic imagination --
ch. 2. Metaphor as myth and as religion --
1. The problem --
2. Metaphor as fact and fact as metaphor --
3. Metaphors of psychological transformation --
4. Threshold figures --
5. The metaphorical journey --
6. Metaphorical identification --
7. The net of gems --
ch. 3. The way of art --
Notes --
Acknowledgments.
FY1989 /
Physical description
155 p.; 25 cm
Description
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."
Language
Original language
English
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LibraryThing member drbubbles
Mostly a mixture of unfalsifiable woo, a truly atrocious attempt at radical-prehistory-by-insinuation (the evidence adduced is cherry-picked and decontextualized, making for a weak argument that is so reductionistic as to be devoid of any explanatory power whatsoever even were he right in his
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facts), and a misguided appropriation of relativity-theory; but the first and second chapters have a few redeeming aspects (solid critique of mainstream-religious apologetics, interesting analysis of the basic structure of worldwide religious history). Show Less
LibraryThing member hailelib
A short summation of Campbell's thoughts toward's the end of his life on his long study of comparative mythology. Really an extended essay. Quote : 'Religious intolerance is blasphemy' page 96