The Posthumous Works of Heinrich Zimmer

Joseph Campbell completed and edited four volumes by Heinrich Zimmer, writing a foreword for each.

When he died suddenly in 1943, famed Indologist Heinrich Zimmer left behind a vast body of unfinished work. At the urging of his widow Christiane Zimmer, Joseph Campbell spent the next decade fashioning Zimmer’s drafts, notes, and lecture transcripts into four books:

• Myths and Symbols of Indian Art and Civilization
• The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul’s Conquest of Evil
• Philosophies of India
• The Art of Indian Asia: Its Mythology and Transformations (2 volumes)