Creative Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume IV: 4 - Brossura

Campbell, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140194401 ISBN 13: 9780140194401

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1991

Riassunto

Studies the development of man's philosophical views of supreme beings in primitive, Eastern, and Western culture.

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L'autore:

Joseph Campbell was interested in mythology since his childhood in New York, when he read books about American Indians, frequently visited the American Museum of Natural History, and was fascinated by the museum's collection of totem poles. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Columbia in 1925 and 1927 and went on to study medieval French and Sanskrit at the universities of Paris and Munich.

After a period in California, where he encountered John Steinbeck and the biologist Ed Ricketts, he taught at the Canterbury School, then, in 1934, joined the literature department at Sarah Lawrence College, a post he retained for many years. During the 1940s and '50s, he helped Swami Nikhilananda to translate the Upanishads and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

The many books by Professor Campbell include The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, The Flight of the Wild Gander, and The Mythic Image. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights, The Portable Jung, and other works. He died in 1987.

Product Description:

The whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140194401
• ISBN 13: 9780140194401
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 752