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Joseph Campbell Books
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The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,948 ratings — published 1988
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,298 ratings — published 1949
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,329 ratings — published 1959
The Masks of God, Volume 4: Creative Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,758 ratings — published 1968
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work (Works)
by (shelved 14 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,711 ratings — published 1990
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,871 ratings — published 1964
Myths to Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,109 ratings — published 1972
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,147 ratings — published 2004
The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,453 ratings — published 1962
Transformations of Myth Through Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.21 — 743 ratings — published 1990
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,686 ratings — published 2013
The Mythic Image (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.38 — 509 ratings — published 1974
Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal (Collected Work)
by (shelved 8 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.42 — 533 ratings — published 2003
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)
by (shelved 8 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,323 ratings — published 1986
A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,675 ratings — published 1991
The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.18 — 490 ratings — published 1969
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.23 — 221,757 ratings — published 1812
Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol 2, Part 3: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the Middle and Southern Americas (paper)
by (shelved 6 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.44 — 75 ratings — published 1988
The Mythic Dimension - Comparative Mythology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.09 — 241 ratings — published 2011
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor (cloth)
by (shelved 6 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,283 ratings — published 2001
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.10 — 403 ratings — published 2015
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,150 ratings — published -400
Historical Atlas of World Mythology Vol II: The Way of the Seeded Earth Part 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.54 — 37 ratings — published 1989
Historical Atlas of World Mythology Vol II: The Way of the Seeded Earth Part 1: The Sacrifice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.29 — 48 ratings — published 1988
Love and the Goddess: Power of Myth 5 (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.50 — 177 ratings — published
Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol. 1: The Way of the Animal Powers, Part 1, Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.38 — 58 ratings — published 1988
The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-87 (Collected Works)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.08 — 183 ratings — published 1997
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,727 ratings — published 1890
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.87 — 61 ratings — published 1937
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,583 ratings — published -350
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,346 ratings — published -500
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,718 ratings — published -429
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,080 ratings — published 1846
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (Native American)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 1974
The Way of Zen (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,506 ratings — published
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,939 ratings — published 2004
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.05 — 65 ratings — published 1956
The Mabinogion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,668 ratings — published 1200
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.37 — 651 ratings — published 1953
Zen in the Art of Archery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,471 ratings — published 1948
Man and Transformation: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks (paper)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.13 — 46 ratings — published 1954
The Hero's Adventure: Power of Myth 1 (audio cassette)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,900 ratings — published 1992
The Arabian Nights (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.03 — 82,143 ratings — published 800
Phaedrus (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,458 ratings — published -370
The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 3.93 — 81 ratings — published
Historical Atlas of World Mythology 1: The Way of the Animal Powers Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt (paper)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.33 — 42 ratings — published
Masks of Eternity: Power of Myth 6 (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.47 — 95 ratings — published 1990
The First Storytellers: Power of Myth 3 (audio cassette)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.48 — 171 ratings — published
Sacrifice and Bliss: Power of Myth 4 (audio cassette)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.51 — 154 ratings — published 1990
The Message of the Myth: Power of Myth 2 (audio cassette)
by (shelved 4 times as joseph-campbell)
avg rating 4.36 — 133 ratings — published 1990
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Stories are masks of God.
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.”
― The Man on the Ceiling
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.”
― The Man on the Ceiling
