Creative Mythology, Joseph Campbell
Creative Mythology, Joseph Campbell
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Creative Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume IV

Author: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 26 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/27/2018


Synopsis

Explore the power of myth as it exploded from medieval Europe into the modern worldIn this fourth volume in The Masks of God series—Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology—the preeminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe beginning in the twelfth century A.D. up through the modernist art of the twentieth century.The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks. On completing it, he wrote: “Its main result for me has been the confirmation of a thought I have long and faithfully entertained: of the unity of the race of man, not only in its biology, but also in its spiritual history, which has everywhere unfolded in the manner of a single symphony, with its themes announced, developed, amplified and turned about, distorted, reasserted, and today, in a grand fortissimo of all sections sounding together, irresistibly advancing to some kind of mighty climax, out of which the next great movement will emerge.”

About Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) wrote classics including The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the four-volume The Masks of God, and Myths to Live By. His televised interview with Bill Moyers introduced his views to millions. Campbell’s interest in mythology was sparked by his love of reading about American Indians and visits to New York City’s American Museum of Natural History.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

OKAY. For as much as I generally love Campbell for his scholarship and his breadth and depth of knowledge on all things religious, mythical, and anthropological, I have to say he goes rather overboard in a DIFFERENT direction for this book. What direction, you ask? Living culture. And I'm not really t......more

Joseph Campbell, like Bach, was a man out of his time, coming at the end of a long, beautiful movement of human culture, and in many ways epitomizing and summarizing it. Just as Bach raised the art of counterpoint to a transcendent sphere even as the rest of the music world was abandoning it as an o......more

Goodreads review by Michael

“For it is simply a fact that poets and artists, who are dealing every day of their lives with the feeling- as well as thought-values of their own imageries of communication, are endowed with a developed organ for the understanding of myth that is too often lacking in the merely learned; so that whe......more