This title focuses on the symbols and metaphors of Judeo-Christian tradition and investigates how modern culture often misinterprets them. The scope of the text ranges across religious and mytholgical history to geography. The style is one of scholarly story-telling.
Joseph Campbell edited this collection of Carl Jung's writings as a primer on the work of Jung. Well represented in lengthy excerpts are Jung's work on the collective unconscious, the ego, and psychological types, as well as works that one might classify as "occult" or spiritual, such as "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy" and "On ...
This volume brings together all of Joseph Campbell's writings, as well as his lectures, on the work of James Joyce, whose use of mythological allegory helped inspire Campbell's own views on the vast tradition of mythological images and how they relate to mankind's heritage. The second in a series featuring the unpublished works of Joseph Campbell, ...
In the tradition of The Power Of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
Joseph Campbell, arguably one of the greatest mythologist of our time, was certainly one of our greatest STORYTELLERS. This book recounts his own quest and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of our mythic traditions, which he called "the one great story of mankind". The book interweaves conversations with Campbell and some of the ...
The life and thoughts of the famous scholar, philosopher, writer and mythologist. Each chapter of this lyrical book follows the path of Campbell's lifelong investigation into the world of mythology, and details his painstaking synthesis of mythology with religion, psychology, and art.
This collection of contemporary essays by prominent contemporary thinkers on the topics of determinism and free agency concentrates primarily on two areas: the problem of free will and determinism (i.e., the compatibility problem) and the metaphysics of moral responsibility. There are also essays on the related fields of determinism and action ...
These are the edited journals of American ambassador and explorer Joseph Campbell, who encountered the stark realities of life in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Japan during his travels there in the mid-1950s. The text recounts Campbell's personal disillusionment with his idealized image of Asia.
Essays by Ernesto Buonaiuti, Friedrich Heiler, Wilhelm Koppers, Louis Massignon, Jean de Menasce, Erich Neumann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Erwin Rousselle, Boris Vyshelawzeff, and Heinrich Zimmer.
Leading scholars consider a variety of philosophical issues in law and social justice, from foundational concepts to specific legal problems. These essays by leading scholars illustrate the complexity and range of philosophical issues raised by consideration of law and social justice. The contributors to Law and Social Justice examine such broad ...
In this book, leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics. This collection of original essays on the topics of causation and explanation offers readers a state-of-the-art view of current work in these areas. The book is ...
The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until "Women and Slavery", no single collection has focused on female slaves who - as these two volumes reveal - probably constituted the considerable majority of those ...
The literature on women enslaved around the world has grown rapidly in the last ten years, evidencing strong interest in the subject across a range of academic disciplines. Until "Women and Slavery", no single collection has focused on female slaves who - as these two volumes reveal - probably constituted the considerable majority of those ...
This work is a critical investigation into the relationship between religious affiliation, on the one hand, and fertility, family size preferences and family planning behaviour, on the other. Dr Chamie works from a set of unique data: the 1971 Fertility and Family Planning Survey in Lebanon. This survey is not only a national study of Lebanese ...
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