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Title: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor by Joseph Campbell, Eugene C. Kennedy ISBN: 1-57731-202-3 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A pleasant taste of metaphor study.
Comment: This is a wonderful taste of the large, unpublished work of Campbell yet to be shared. I would recommend this book to those who want a good introduction to Campbell's work. Hopefully it will inspire them to read more about mythology and deepen their knowledge. This book is concerned mainly with mythos (meaning) versus logos (symbol) and how many people get caught up in symbols, thus missing the meaning (the mistake most fundamentalists are trapped in). As always with Campbell, his explanations are so eloquent and educated that one cannot help but want more. The only complaint I have about this book is its size--only 100 pages of Campbell's writing (mostly from lectures and notes). It certainly could have been expanded to twice that with very little effort. However, for those used to Campbell's written work, they will be pleasantly surprised how different his lecturing is.
One mistake the editor, and many a reviewer, make is to try and say that Campbell focuses on the Judeo-Christian aspect of symbol abuse. If one were to read all of Campbell's work, they would find this to be quite wrong. Campbell is not so shallow. His concern is mythology, all of it, world-round. In fact, the majority of his work focuses on primitive mythology. He certainly spoke and expounded on the Judeo-Christian aspect much in his lecturing, but this is mostly because that is what his audience was interested in, especially the new-agers who desperately clung to Campbell in the last decades of his life.
But I encourage those interested to dig deeper than this book into Campbell's work where can be found a rich, scholarly depth and breadth of mythos/logos study.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read!
Comment: If one has any history with, or lives in a society influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition, regardless of religious affiliation, this book will help you gain insight into some of your deepest questions. The only draw-back, as with the other posthumous Campbell books, is that it's more or less a compilation from various discourses. So it helps if you're familiar with several of Campbell's works. Even still, accepting that there is no driving thesis, one still comes away with a central understanding that the Bible has an equal place (not an exalted place) with the world mythologies. Fundamentalists may go into this journey with a critical eye, buth they can't deny the spiritual evaluation Campbell reverently evokes when putting Biblical mythology in proper context - with the universe and with yourself, for thou art that.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thou Art What Connects Us All
Comment: Joseph Campbell, the foremost authority on mythology, shows us that symbolism is the key to understanding and experiencing religious mystery. Along the way he criticizes the clergy for not enlightening followers to this fact, and more significantly he shares his own interpretation of many Judeo-Christian symbols. I especially enjoyed the last chapter titled "Question Period." It is a collection of Campbell's responses to various questions taken after many of his lectures over the years. He seems to shine in this type of forum and demonstrates a depth of knowledge and a clarity that sometimes gets buried in the preceding chapters. The Appendix is a reprint of "Earthrise - The Dawning of a New Spiritual Awareness," which was a Campbell interview that appeared Easter 1979 in the New York Times Magazine. Chapter notes, a bibliography, and an index are also included in this wonderful little book.
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Title: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 1577312090 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Collected Work of Joseph Campbell Series) by Joseph Campbell, David Kudler ISBN: 1577314034 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Myths to Live by by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194614 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Masks of God: Creative Mythology (Masks of God) by Joseph Campbell ISBN: 0140194401 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers, Bill D. Moyers, Betty S. Flowers ISBN: 0385418868 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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