Works by Campbell: Books
Books (hardcover & paperback print)
| Cover | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Asian Journals — India and Japan | At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body … |
 | Baksheesh and Brahman | Now available in Asian Journals: India & Japan Joseph Campbell was one of the foremost interpreters of myth in our time. Yet when he traveled to Asia for the first time he was nearly … |
 | Correspondence | Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholars This brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a … |
 | Ecstasy of Being, The | Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual … |
 | Flight of the Wild Gander, The | Explore the origins and impact of myth What is the “meaning” of a tree? of a butterfly? of the birth of a child? or of the universe? What is the “meaning” of the song … |
 | Goddesses | Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics. While Campbell’s … |
 | Hero with a Thousand Faces, The | This seminal work has influenced millions of readers since it was originally published in 1949, bringing the insights of modern psychology together with Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In The Hero with a … |
 | Hero’s Journey, The (book) | See also: The Hero’s Journey: a Biographical Portrait (video) Joseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell … |
 | Inner Reaches of Outer Space, The | Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, this book–the last Campbell completed in his lifetime–explores … |
 | Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (book) | See also: Video: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (video) Audio: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (audio) These stimulating conversations between inspirational scholar … |
 | Joseph Campbell Companion, A | In an intimate seminar gathered at the Esalen Institute for one month in 1983, Joseph Campbell discussed the ways in which myth informs and pervades each of our lives. This popular book gathers together … |
 | Mythic Imagination | Before he was the engaging professor who brought mythology into people’s living rooms through his conversations with Bill Moyers, before he became known as the thinker whose ideas influenced Star Wars, and before his … |
 | Mythic Worlds, Modern Words | In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in … |
 | Myths of Light | This previously unpublished title brings the focus of Campbell’s remarkable knowledge and intellect to one of his favorite topics: the myths and metaphors of the Asian religions. By his own account, Joseph Campbell began … |
 | Myths to Live By | In Myths to Live By, Joseph, Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, returning … |
 | Pathways to Bliss | Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort … |
 | Romance of the Grail | Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. In this new volume of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, … |
 | Sake and Satori | Now available in Asian Journals: India & Japan In 1954, famed mythologist Joseph Campbell traveled, at age 50, to Asia for the first time. In this second volume of his Asian journals, he continues … |
 | Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, A | Countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake — James Joyce’s 1939 masterwork, on which he labored for a third of his life — have given up after a few pages and “dismissed the book as a perverse … |
 | The Masks of God™ 4: Creative Mythology | Explore the power of myth as it exploded from twelfth century Europe into the modern world. Creative Mythology is the fourth and final volume of Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology, The Masks … |
 | The Masks of God™ Volume 1: Primitive Mythology | Masks of God™ Volume 1: Primitive Mythology In this first volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the wellsprings of myth. … |
 | The Masks of God™ Volume 2: Oriental Mythology | The Masks of God™ Volume 4: Creative Mythology “The myth of eternal return, which is still basic to Oriental life, displays an order of fixed forms that appear and disappear through all time.” – … |
 | The Masks of God™ Volume 3: Occidental Mythology | The Masks of God™ Volume 3: Occidental Mythology “The high function of Occidental myth and ritual . . . is to establish a means of relationship—of God to Man and Man to God”. — … |
 | The Mythic Dimension | These twelve essays explore the topic for which Campbell was best known: the many connections between myth and history, psychology, and everyday life. Drawing from such varied sources as Thomas Mann, the occult, Jungian … |
 | The Mythic Image | Imagery, especially the imagery of dreams, is the basis of mythology. Joseph Campbell’s words are at once the inspiration and explanation for this book – a searching of the mythology of the world’s high … |
 | Thou Art That | “Thou Art That is a compilation of previously uncollected essays and lectures by Joseph Campbell that focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here Campbell explores common religious symbols, reexamining and reinterpreting them in the context … |
 | Transformations of Myth Through Time | Covering the great sweep of mythological development around the world, this illustrated collection features the thirteen, brilliant key lectures from world-renowned scholar and mythologist Joseph Campbell. Photos and illustrations throughout. This book was based … |