This commemorative volume, containing over 400 colour and black-and-white illustrations offers today's reader an incomparable survey of the prodigious accomplishments, spiritual insights and enduring influences of one of the supreme intellects of all time.
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.
Joesph Campbell forged an approach to the study of myth and legend that made ancient traditions and beliefs immediate, relevant and universal. His work as a teacher and author, and his immensely popular interviews with Bill Moyers, made him an icon to those who look to the ancient understanding embodied in myth for guidance in their encounter with ...
Joesph Campbell forged an approach to the study of myth and legend that made ancient traditions and beliefs immediate, relevant and universal. His work as a teacher and author, and his immensely popular interviews with Bill Moyers, made him an icon to those who look to the ancient understanding embodied in myth for guidance in their encounter with ...
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) forged an approach to the study of myth and legend that made ancient traditions and beliefs immediate, relevant, and universal. His teachings and literary works have shown that beneath the apparent themes of world mythology lie patterns that reveal ways we all may encounter the great mysteries of existence: birth, ...
Trained in mythology, art, and psychology, Stephen and Robin Larsen explore romantic relationships to answer the question: "What do couples really want?" The biographers of their friend and colleague Joseph Campbell, the Larsens turn to myths as well as depth psychology to heal the wounds of gender wars. Their discussions with each other and ...
This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. The extraordinary number of letters written by Renaissance women (over 10,000 exist from England alone) reveals the often subtle ways women of the period ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Joseph Campell Foundation
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good/Wraps. Trade paperback, good condition, w. ltly rubbed wraps, lt marks. Ltly bumped corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges, ltly tanned ins wraps. A few rumpled pages. Clean, tight, unmarked. read more
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780060168896ISBN:0060168897
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvi, 314 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 25 cm. Edited by Robin and Stephen Larsen, & Antony Van Couvering. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Stated "First Edition. " Dust jacket, with a corner crease/back flap, protected in a mylar book cover. India--Description and travel. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The New Hope Modernist Project, Inc.
Date Published: 1991
Description: As New. No Jacket. 11"h x 8.5"w. Artists include: H. Baker, A. Blondheim, Cooperative Painting Project, R. Crawford, J. Drew-Bear, E. Driggs, C. Evans, L. Gatch, R. Hogue, P. Keenan, R. A.D. Miller, L.R. Ney, I. Noguchi, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, J. Pickett, C.F. Ramsey, A. Raymond, C. Rosen, L.K. Stone, and E. Wallace. Contents include: Lenders to the Exhibition, Foreword, Acknowledgements, The New Hope Modernists, The New Hope Modernists in Persepective, 15 color plates, 23 b/w illus. and an index of ... read more
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