The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, written in 1949, uses the journey of an archetypal hero to compare mythologies as well as spiritual and psychological beliefs found in all cultures. Campbell explains his belief that there is a spiritual world that parallels the physical world. He metaphorically uses the Hero’s Journey to bring these two worlds together; all while quoting from different myths and including stories from various socio-cultural experiences. One of Campbell’s main points is that the human experience has become shallow and increasingly less of what myth intended.
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A college teacher of literature, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) was an editor and popularizer of comparative mythology. He created comprehensive theories of mythology that synthesized the discoveries of ...
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Born March 26, 1904 in New York. "We had a stable with a cow and a horse out in Westchester.... My father, Charles W. Campbell, was in the hosiery business, importing and wholesale. My career as a myt...
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According to Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces, the "standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula represented in the rites of passage: separ...
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Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
