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Cunneware’s Laugh: The Enticement of Delight

At first glance, the frivolous dilettante seems an unlikely aspect of the archetypal hero. In the outcome-driven culture that most of us inhabit, dilettantes are creatures of a certain derision: we see them as dabblers, superficial and affected, interested in…

Rocking New Year’s Eve

Welcome to another New Year, still in its childhood—a toddler beginning its adventure. Popular culture routinely portrays the New Year this way, as a Child watched over by a kindly and fatherly Old Year, usually in the form of an…

NewsBlast | Joseph Campbell’s Correspondence available for the first time

We are excited to announce a unique new addition to the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, Correspondence: 1927–1987! New World Library, Joseph Campbell Foundation’s longtime publishing partner, has released a fascinating collection of letters that captures ongoing conversations between famed mythologist…

MythBlast | The Paradox of the Outsideness of Myth

I have been rediscovering Campbell’s collection of essays on Asian mythology, Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal, as the Joseph Campbell Foundation and publishing partners have preparing to release it as an audio book and eBook.These are some of Campbell’s most accessible…

NewsBlast | The Mythic Dimension is now open to you!

We are delighted to be able to bring you two new editions of The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959–1987. This exciting collection is now available in ebook and audiobook formats, as well as in paperback. The Mythic Dimension presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging,…

NewsBlast | The Ecstasy of Being is Now Available

We are excited to announce the release of Joseph Campbell’s The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance, the latest in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell print series published by our colleagues at New World Library. Ecstasy of Being was one of the books Campbell…

NewsBlast | Russian Rap and the Hero’s Journey™ 

The work of Joseph Campbell continues to resonate with people all over the world. Currently, fifteen of Campbell’s books are published in overseas markets covering twenty-three languages. Of particular note is the success of The Hero with a Thousand Faces,…

NewsBlast | Read Occidental Mythology as an eBook

We’re excited to be able to bring you the ebook edition of Occidental Mythology, the third installment in Joseph Campbell’s Masks of God series (both the third title in the series, and the third we’ve released), which stands alongside The Hero with a Thousand…

NewsBlast | The Historical Development of Mythology ePub

Joseph Campbell Foundation is excited to announce the release of our latest eSingle, Campbell’s wonderful overview of myth, “The Historical Development of Mythology.” In this fascinating overview of the shape of myths throughout human civilization’s expansion, Joseph Campbell lays out…

NewsBlast | Thou Art That eBook Now Available

Thou Art That cover

JCF is proud to announce the release of the eBook edition of Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor. Woven from Joseph Campbell’s previously unpublished work, this volume explores Judeo-Christian symbols and metaphors — and their misinterpretations — with the famed mythologist’s…

NewsBlast | “Bios & Mythos” now available!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve released one of Joseph Campbell’s earliest, most influential articles as an eSingle! Campbell wrote “Bios & Mythos” for a collection of essays, Psychoanalysis and Culture, printed in 1951 to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the…

NewsBlast | Do you dare to re-imagine yourself?

Are you hungering for a quest?   Join JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. Five days of inspired, inspiring, creative, chaotic, joyful, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center,…

NewsBlast | The Mythic Dimension now in paperback

We are excited to announce that New World Library has released The Mythic Dimension, the collection of Joseph Campbell’s essays, as a paperback in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. The essays collected in The Mythic Dimension fall naturally into two categories: “Mythology…

NewsBlast | Love for Esalen in Hard Times

Our JCF Community: Fifty years ago, Joseph Campbell joined friends and colleagues at a new venture perched on the Big Sur coast, where people were gathering to explore the intersections of human spirituality, psychology, creativity, and community. Esalen has become…

Listening to Hero

Joseph Campbell’s masterpiece is now available in a completely unabridged recording. The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers since it was originally published in 1949, bringing the insights of modern psychology together with Campbell’s revolutionary understanding…

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